{
  "place_id": "vodzislav-shlonskyi#7777_11025",
  "wikidata": "Q500260",
  "country": "PL",
  "local_name": "Wodzisław Śląski",
  "names": {
    "en": {
      "main": "Wodzisław Śląski",
      "why": "Current Polish Latin-script name, retained in English; no transliteration is needed.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Wodzislaw Slaski",
          "why": "Diacritic-free rendering of the Polish name, used where Polish letters are unavailable; not the official spelling."
        },
        {
          "name": "Loslau",
          "why": "Historical German name, used in English accounts of the town before 1945 and in historical or family records; not the current official name."
        },
        {
          "name": "Wodzisław",
          "why": "Shortened Polish name; ambiguous without regional context."
        },
        {
          "name": "Wodzislaw",
          "why": "Diacritic-free version of the short name."
        }
      ]
    },
    "fr": {
      "main": "Wodzisław Śląski",
      "why": "Same current Polish spelling as in English; no separate French exonym is selected.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Wodzislaw Slaski",
          "why": "Accent-stripped form also encountered in French indexes and travel searches; the Polish spelling is preferred in edited French."
        },
        {
          "name": "Loslau",
          "why": "German historical name retained in French writing about the former German town and in references to German sources."
        },
        {
          "name": "Wodzisław",
          "why": "Short form used when the Silesian location is understood."
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  "about_en": "Wodzisław Śląski is a town in southern Silesian Voivodeship near the Czech border. Its old market square sits within the wider Upper Silesian mining region.",
  "about_fr": "",
  "certainty": "medium",
  "notes": "",
  "rank": 227,
  "slug": "wodzislaw-slaski"
}