{
  "place_id": "sevezh#7804_11068",
  "wikidata": "Q989846",
  "country": "PL",
  "local_name": "Siewierz",
  "forms": [],
  "names": {
    "en": {
      "main": "Siewierz",
      "why": "Official Polish Latin-script name retained in English.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Sievers",
          "why": "Historical form used in English accounts of the Napoleonic principality; particularly associated with the title granted to Jean Lannes."
        },
        {
          "name": "Sewerien",
          "why": "German historical form quoted in French history; independent English prose frequency unverified."
        },
        {
          "name": "Siewiezh",
          "why": "English naming-data alias using zh in place of Polish rz; not the official Polish spelling."
        }
      ]
    },
    "fr": {
      "main": "Siewierz",
      "why": "Same as in English; used as the French locality heading.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Sievers",
          "why": "Traditional French historical name explicitly identified as French in the locality reference; remains relevant to Napoleonic and ducal history, while the modern heading uses Siewierz."
        },
        {
          "name": "Sewerien",
          "why": "German historical name explicitly printed in French locality history; not the current French heading."
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  "about_en": "Siewierz is a town on the Czarna Przemsza in Poland's Silesian Voivodeship. Its ruined castle recalls the former Duchy of Siewierz, ruled by the bishops of Kraków.",
  "about_fr": "",
  "certainty": "medium",
  "notes": "Sources checked 2026-11-15: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siewierz ; https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siewierz.",
  "dropped": [],
  "version": 0,
  "rank": 1614,
  "slug": "siewierz"
}