Kościan
A settlement in Poland.
English name
Kościan — Current Polish Latin-script name, retained in English with its native spelling.
Other forms in use:
- Kosten — Historical German name used in English historical writing and archival searches; not the present official name.
- Koscian — Plain-text form without native diacritics, useful in English indexes and searches; not a separate exonym.
French name
Kościan — Same as in English; retain the native Latin spelling in French. No separate established French exonym is selected.
Other forms in use:
- Kosten — German historical name for matching French references to Prussian Poland.
- Koscian — Unaccented search form in French plain text; retain the native diacritics in edited French.
About
Kościan is a town on the Obra in Greater Poland Voivodeship, south of Poznań. Its old town includes a Gothic parish church and a market square.
Notes
Input label 'Косьцян' is Ukrainian or indirect; local_name gives the native spelling. Wikidata is missing in the input and is left empty pending entity verification.
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