Elamur LocationsPiekary Śląskie
A settlement in Poland.
English name
Piekary Śląskie — Current Polish Latin-script name, retained in English; no transliteration is needed.
Other forms in use:
- Piekary Slaskie — Diacritic-free rendering of the Polish name, used where Polish letters are unavailable; not the official spelling.
- Deutsch Piekar — Historical German name, used in English accounts of the town before 1945 and in historical or family records; not the current official name.
- Piekary — Shortened name in local and regional contexts; less precise than the full municipal name.
French name
Piekary Śląskie — Same current Polish spelling as in English; no separate French exonym is selected.
Other forms in use:
- Piekary Slaskie — Accent-stripped form also encountered in French indexes and travel searches; the Polish spelling is preferred in edited French.
- Deutsch Piekar — German historical name retained in French writing about the former German town and in references to German sources.
- Piekary — Short form used when the Silesian location is already clear, including pilgrimage contexts.
About
Piekary Śląskie is a city in the Upper Silesian industrial area of southern Poland. It combines a coal-mining heritage with an important Marian pilgrimage shrine.
Notes
Deutsch Piekar originally names the historical core, not necessarily every district of the present city.
Identifiers: Wikidata Q158488 · JSON
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