{
  "place_id": "zhahan#7867_10850",
  "wikidata": "",
  "country": "PL",
  "local_name": "Żagań",
  "names": {
    "en": {
      "main": "Żagań",
      "why": "Current Polish Latin-script name, retained in English with its native spelling.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Sagan",
          "why": "German historical name, well established in English accounts of the duchy and the prisoner-of-war camp."
        },
        {
          "name": "Zagan",
          "why": "Plain-text form without native diacritics, useful in English indexes and searches; not a separate exonym."
        }
      ]
    },
    "fr": {
      "main": "Żagań",
      "why": "Same as in English; retain the native Latin spelling in French. No separate established French exonym is selected.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Sagan",
          "why": "Historical name current in French accounts of the duchy and the duchess of Sagan."
        },
        {
          "name": "Zagan",
          "why": "Unaccented search form in French plain text; retain the native diacritics in edited French."
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  "about_en": "Żagań is a town on the Bóbr river in Lubusz Voivodeship. Its ducal palace and the nearby Stalag Luft III prisoner-of-war site are major historical landmarks.",
  "about_fr": "",
  "certainty": "high",
  "notes": "Wikidata is absent in the input. Historical Sagan is particularly well established in French aristocratic history. Input label 'Жагань' is Ukrainian or indirect; local_name gives the native spelling. Wikidata is missing in the input and is left empty pending entity verification.",
  "rank": 411,
  "slug": "zagan"
}