{
  "place_id": "veliun#7845_11031",
  "wikidata": "Q101530",
  "country": "PL",
  "local_name": "Wieluń",
  "names": {
    "en": {
      "main": "Wieluń",
      "why": "Current Polish Latin-script name, retained in English with its native spelling.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Welun",
          "why": "German wartime spelling."
        },
        {
          "name": "Wielun",
          "why": "Unaccented Polish spelling widely used in English historical writing."
        }
      ]
    },
    "fr": {
      "main": "Wieluń",
      "why": "Same as in English; retain the native Latin spelling in French. No separate established French exonym is selected.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Welun",
          "why": "German wartime form relevant to French Second World War sources."
        },
        {
          "name": "Wielun",
          "why": "Unaccented search form in French plain text; retain the native diacritics in edited French."
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  "about_en": "Wieluń is a town in the south-west of Łódź Voivodeship. It is remembered for the German air raid at the opening of the Second World War.",
  "about_fr": "",
  "certainty": "high",
  "notes": "No uncertain casualty figure is given. Input label 'Велюнь' is Ukrainian or indirect; local_name gives the native spelling.",
  "rank": 471,
  "slug": "wielun"
}