Piastów
A settlement in Poland.
English name
Piastów — Current Polish Latin-script name, retained in English with its native spelling.
Other forms in use:
- Utrata — Former settlement name before Piastów was adopted in 1926, retained for historical searches.
- Piastow — Plain-text form without native diacritics, useful in English indexes and searches; not a separate exonym.
French name
Piastów — Same as in English; retain the native Latin spelling in French. No separate established French exonym is selected.
Other forms in use:
- Utrata — Former name, relevant to French historical sources predating the 1926 change.
- Piastow — Unaccented search form in French plain text; retain the native diacritics in edited French.
About
Piastów is a town immediately west of Warsaw in Masovian Voivodeship. Railway access helped it develop as an industrial and residential part of the capital’s metropolitan area.
Notes
Distinguish the town from the Utrata river and other places of that name. Input label 'Пястув' is Ukrainian or indirect; local_name gives the native spelling. The 1926 renaming is documented at https://dziennikustaw.gov.pl/MP/1926/s/24/65 .
Identifiers: Wikidata Q778313 · JSON
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