Elamur LocationsWodzisław Śląski
A settlement in Poland.
English name
Wodzisław Śląski — Current Polish Latin-script name, retained in English; no transliteration is needed.
Other forms in use:
- Wodzislaw Slaski — Diacritic-free rendering of the Polish name, used where Polish letters are unavailable; not the official spelling.
- Loslau — Historical German name, used in English accounts of the town before 1945 and in historical or family records; not the current official name.
- Wodzisław — Shortened Polish name; ambiguous without regional context.
- Wodzislaw — Diacritic-free version of the short name.
French name
Wodzisław Śląski — Same current Polish spelling as in English; no separate French exonym is selected.
Other forms in use:
- Wodzislaw Slaski — Accent-stripped form also encountered in French indexes and travel searches; the Polish spelling is preferred in edited French.
- Loslau — German historical name retained in French writing about the former German town and in references to German sources.
- Wodzisław — Short form used when the Silesian location is understood.
About
Wodzisław Śląski is a town in southern Silesian Voivodeship near the Czech border. Its old market square sits within the wider Upper Silesian mining region.
Identifiers: Wikidata Q500260 · JSON
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