Wieluń

A settlement in Poland.

English name

Wieluń — Current Polish Latin-script name, retained in English with its native spelling.

Other forms in use:

Welun — German wartime spelling.
Wielun — Unaccented Polish spelling widely used in English historical writing.

Wieluń — Same as in English; retain the native Latin spelling in French. No separate established French exonym is selected.

Other forms in use:

Welun — German wartime form relevant to French Second World War sources.
Wielun — Unaccented search form in French plain text; retain the native diacritics in edited French.

Wieluń is a town in the south-west of Łódź Voivodeship. It is remembered for the German air raid at the opening of the Second World War.

No uncertain casualty figure is given. Input label 'Велюнь' is Ukrainian or indirect; local_name gives the native spelling.