Ostrzeszów
A settlement in Poland.
English name
Ostrzeszów — The official Polish Latin-script name, retained in English with its Polish spelling; no romanization is needed.
Other forms in use:
- Schildberg — German historical name, especially relevant to English accounts of wartime prisoner-of-war camps.
- Ostrzeszow — Diacritic-free search and plain-text spelling of the local Latin name; not a separate official name.
French name
Ostrzeszów — Same form as in English; retained in the French reference entry checked.
Other forms in use:
- Schildberg — German historical camp-location name for French wartime searches; not a current French name.
- Ostrzeszow — Same local name without its diacritics, useful in French indexes, URLs and plain-text sources.
About
Ostrzeszów is a town in southern Greater Poland. A surviving castle tower marks its medieval past, while its wartime history includes prisoner-of-war camps for Allied servicemen.
Identifiers: Wikidata Q642192 · JSON
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