Oleśnica

A settlement in Poland.

English name

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

Other forms in use:

Olesnica — Diacritic-free rendering of the Polish name, used where Polish letters are unavailable; not the official spelling.
Oels — Historical German name, used in English accounts of the town before 1945 and in historical or family records; not the current official name.
Öls — German orthographic variant of the historical name.

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

Other forms in use:

Olesnica — Accent-stripped form also encountered in French indexes and travel searches; the Polish spelling is preferred in edited French.
Oels — German historical name retained in French writing about the former German town and in references to German sources.
Öls — German historical spelling with an umlaut, also encountered in French references to Silesian history.

Oleśnica is a town in Lower Silesian Voivodeship northeast of Wrocław. Its ducal castle and churches reflect its history as a Silesian princely seat.