{
  "place_id": "starakhovitse#7836_11170",
  "wikidata": "Q751094",
  "country": "PL",
  "local_name": "Starachowice",
  "names": {
    "en": {
      "main": "Starachowice",
      "why": "Current Polish Latin-script name, retained in English; no transliteration is needed.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Starachowice-Wierzbnik",
          "why": "Legal name of the merged town, 1939–1949, confirmed by the 1939 Polish official gazette; Wierzbnik alone denotes its older core."
        },
        {
          "name": "Wierzbnik-Starachowice",
          "why": "Reversed historical form found in regional accounts; not the legal compound adopted in 1939."
        }
      ]
    },
    "fr": {
      "main": "Starachowice",
      "why": "Same current Polish spelling as in English; no separate French exonym is selected.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Starachowice-Wierzbnik",
          "why": "Former legal name of the merged town, 1939–1949; retained when French historical writing quotes Polish records."
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  "about_en": "Starachowice is an industrial town on the Kamienna in Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship. Ironworking and later vehicle manufacturing are central to its history.",
  "about_fr": "",
  "certainty": "medium",
  "notes": "Wierzbnik is now a district, so its earlier standalone name is not treated as a synonym for the whole modern town.",
  "rank": 226,
  "slug": "starachowice"
}