{
  "place_id": "zdunska-volia#7866_11051",
  "wikidata": "Q169237",
  "country": "PL",
  "local_name": "Zduńska Wola",
  "names": {
    "en": {
      "main": "Zduńska Wola",
      "why": "Current Polish Latin-script name, retained in English; no transliteration is needed.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Zdunska Wola",
          "why": "Diacritic-free rendering of the Polish name, used where Polish letters are unavailable; not the official spelling."
        },
        {
          "name": "Zdunska-Wola",
          "why": "Diacritic-free hyphenated variant in older foreign-language references; the current Polish name uses a space."
        },
        {
          "name": "Freihaus",
          "why": "German occupation name imposed in 1943 and used until 1945."
        }
      ]
    },
    "fr": {
      "main": "Zduńska Wola",
      "why": "Same current Polish spelling as in English; no separate French exonym is selected.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Zdunska Wola",
          "why": "Accent-stripped form also encountered in French indexes and travel searches; the Polish spelling is preferred in edited French."
        },
        {
          "name": "Zdunska-Wola",
          "why": "Older French reference typography may hyphenate the name and omit the accent; Polish uses a space."
        },
        {
          "name": "Freihaus",
          "why": "Nazi occupation name in French histories and archival references for 1943–1945."
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  "about_en": "Zduńska Wola is a town in Łódź Voivodeship in central Poland. Textiles shaped its industrial growth, while the Karsznice district has a strong railway heritage.",
  "about_fr": "",
  "certainty": "medium",
  "notes": "Karsznice is a constituent district with its own railway history, not a synonym for the whole town.",
  "rank": 261,
  "slug": "zdunska-wola"
}