Ciechanów

A settlement in Poland.

English name

Ciechanów — Current Polish Latin-script name, retained in English; no transliteration is needed.

Other forms in use:

Ciechanow — Diacritic-free rendering of the Polish name, used where Polish letters are unavailable; not the official spelling.
Zichenau — German occupation name during the Second World War; used in English accounts of Nazi administrative history.
Tsekhanov — Russian-based spelling encountered in English imperial-period records.

Ciechanów — Same current Polish spelling as in English; no separate French exonym is selected.

Other forms in use:

Ciechanow — Accent-stripped form also encountered in French indexes and travel searches; the Polish spelling is preferred in edited French.
Zichenau — German name in French histories of the Nazi occupation and its administrative district.
Tsekhanov — Russian-derived historical spelling, relevant when French works quote Russian imperial records.

Ciechanów is a town on the Łydynia in northern Masovian Voivodeship. Its brick castle recalls its role as a seat of the dukes of Masovia.