Elamur LocationsŚwiętochłowice
A settlement in Poland.
English name
Świętochłowice — Current Polish Latin-script name, retained in English; no transliteration is needed.
Other forms in use:
- Swietochlowice — Diacritic-free rendering of the Polish name, used where Polish letters are unavailable; not the official spelling.
- Schwientochlowitz — Historical German name, used in English accounts of the town before 1945 and in historical or family records; not the current official name.
French name
Świętochłowice — Same current Polish spelling as in English; no separate French exonym is selected.
Other forms in use:
- Swietochlowice — Accent-stripped form also encountered in French indexes and travel searches; the Polish spelling is preferred in edited French.
- Schwientochlowitz — German historical name retained in French writing about the former German town and in references to German sources.
About
Świętochłowice is a city in the Upper Silesian conurbation in southern Poland. Coal mining and steelmaking have shaped its closely built industrial landscape.
Identifiers: Wikidata Q45197 · JSON
This page as Markdown: https://md.locations.elamur.ai/free/en/poland/swietochlowice/