Paczków

A settlement in Poland.

English name

Paczków — Official Polish Latin-script name retained in English.

Other forms in use:

• Patschkau — Historical German name used in English regional history; not the current Polish civic name.
• Paczkōw — Silesian-language form explicitly given in English reference prose.
• Polish Carcassonne — Descriptive English nickname referring to the surviving town walls; not an official name.
• Paczkow — Diacritic-free typing/indexing variant of Paczków for English retrieval; independent prose frequency is unverified.

French name

Paczków — Same as in English; used as the French geographical reference heading.

Other forms in use:

• Patschkau — German historical name explicitly used in the French locality reference, rather than a current French civic name.
• Paczkow — Diacritic-free typing/indexing variant of Paczków for French retrieval; independent prose frequency is unverified.

About

Paczków is a town in southwestern Poland near the Czech border. Its preserved medieval walls and towers enclose a historic centre in the valley of the Nysa Kłodzka.

Notes

Sources checked 2026-11-15: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paczków ; https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paczków ; https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Пачкув ; https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/Пачкаў ; https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paczków.

Identifiers: Wikidata Q988574 · JSON

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