Elamur LocationsGniew
A settlement in Poland.
English name
Gniew — Official Polish Latin-script name retained in English.
Other forms in use:
- Mewe — Historical German name used in English regional history; not the present Polish civic name.
- Gniéw — Kashubian local name explicitly quoted in French geographical references; useful for source matching in English.
French name
Gniew — Same as in English; the French locality reference uses this heading.
Other forms in use:
- Mewe — German historical name explicitly recorded in the French locality reference; used for the town’s earlier history.
- Gniéw — Kashubian name explicitly quoted in the French introduction.
- Gméw — Alternative Kashubian spelling indexed in French naming data.
- Gmew — Diacritic-free typing/indexing variant of Gméw for French retrieval; independent prose frequency unverified.
About
Gniew is a town on the left bank of the Vistula in northern Poland. Its large brick Gothic castle is a prominent monument from the period of the Teutonic Order.
Notes
Sources checked 2026-11-15: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gniew ; https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gniew.
Identifiers: Wikidata Q305067 · JSON
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