Pińczów
A settlement in Poland.
English name
Pińczów — Current official Polish Latin-script name, retained in English with its local spelling; no Cyrillic romanization is required.
Other forms in use:
- Pintchov — Historical spelling listed in the English JewishGen community and cemetery indexes.
- Pinchev — Yiddish-derived spelling explicitly listed in JewishGen.
- Pin'chuv — Russian-based historical spelling explicitly listed in JewishGen.
- Pinchov — Historical Latin spelling listed in JewishGen.
- Pintshev — Yiddish-derived historical spelling listed in JewishGen.
- Pinczow — Diacritic-free typing or indexing form of Pińczów for English retrieval; not a separate official name. Independent prose frequency is unverified.
French name
Pińczów — Same form as in English; retained in French reference usage, without a separate French exonym.
Other forms in use:
- Pintchov — Jewish historical name for retrieval in French-language sources; exact frequency in French prose is unverified.
- Pinchev — Yiddish-derived name in the JewishGen index, useful for French Jewish-history retrieval; independent French prose frequency unverified.
- Pintshev — Historical Yiddish-derived form relevant to French bibliographic searches; used in the title of a memorial book.
- Pinczow — Diacritic-free typing or indexing form of Pińczów for French retrieval; not a separate official name. Independent prose frequency is unverified.
About
Pińczów is a town in the Nida valley in southern Poland. It was an important centre of the Reformation and preserves monuments linked to its Renaissance patrons and former Jewish community.
Notes
Additional historical spellings are verified in the English JewishGen cemetery/community indexes; their usefulness in French research does not establish frequency in French prose. https://cdp.jewishgen.org/eastern-europe/poland/pinczow Reference pages checked 2026-11-15: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pińczów ; https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pińczów.
Identifiers: Wikidata Q275592 · JSON
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