Żagań
A settlement in Poland.
English name
Żagań — Current Polish Latin-script name, retained in English with its native spelling.
Other forms in use:
- Sagan — German historical name, well established in English accounts of the duchy and the prisoner-of-war camp.
- Zagan — Plain-text form without native diacritics, useful in English indexes and searches; not a separate exonym.
French name
Żagań — Same as in English; retain the native Latin spelling in French. No separate established French exonym is selected.
Other forms in use:
- Sagan — Historical name current in French accounts of the duchy and the duchess of Sagan.
- Zagan — Unaccented search form in French plain text; retain the native diacritics in edited French.
About
Żagań is a town on the Bóbr river in Lubusz Voivodeship. Its ducal palace and the nearby Stalag Luft III prisoner-of-war site are major historical landmarks.
Notes
Wikidata is absent in the input. Historical Sagan is particularly well established in French aristocratic history. Input label 'Жагань' is Ukrainian or indirect; local_name gives the native spelling. Wikidata is missing in the input and is left empty pending entity verification.
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