Mikołów
A settlement in Poland.
English name
Mikołów — Current Polish Latin-script name, retained in English; no transliteration is needed.
Other forms in use:
- Mikolow — Diacritic-free rendering of the Polish name, used where Polish letters are unavailable; not the official spelling.
- Nikolai — Historical German name, used in English accounts of the town before 1945 and in historical or family records; not the current official name.
French name
Mikołów — Same current Polish spelling as in English; no separate French exonym is selected.
Other forms in use:
- Mikolow — Accent-stripped form also encountered in French indexes and travel searches; the Polish spelling is preferred in edited French.
- Nikolai — German historical name retained in French writing about the former German town and in references to German sources.
About
Mikołów is a town in Silesian Voivodeship in southern Poland. Its old market centre lies on the southwestern side of the Upper Silesian industrial area.
Identifiers: Wikidata Q659905 · JSON
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