{
  "place_id": "volodava#7863_11308",
  "wikidata": "Q751076",
  "country": "PL",
  "local_name": "Włodawa",
  "names": {
    "en": {
      "main": "Włodawa",
      "why": "The official Polish Latin-script name, retained in English with its Polish spelling; no romanization is needed.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Vlodava",
          "why": "Romanized Yiddish/Russian-style name used in English Jewish historical material."
        },
        {
          "name": "Wlodawa",
          "why": "Diacritic-free search and plain-text spelling of the local Latin name; not a separate official name."
        }
      ]
    },
    "fr": {
      "main": "Włodawa",
      "why": "Same form as in English; retained in the French reference entry checked.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Vlodava",
          "why": "Historical international search form; French prose frequency is unverified."
        },
        {
          "name": "Wlodawa",
          "why": "Same local name without its diacritics, useful in French indexes, URLs and plain-text sources."
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  "about_en": "Włodawa is a town on the Bug River in eastern Poland, near the borders with Belarus and Ukraine. Its synagogue complex and Christian churches reflect the town's Jewish, Catholic and Orthodox history.",
  "about_fr": "",
  "certainty": "high",
  "notes": "",
  "rank": 787,
  "slug": "wlodawa"
}