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# Chodzież

A settlement in Poland.

## English name

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

Other forms in use:

- **Chodziesen** — Older German historical name.
- **Kolmar in Posen** — German historical name used to distinguish this town from Colmar in Alsace.
- **Kolmar** — Short German historical name, ambiguous without context.
- **Chodziez** — Plain-text form without native diacritics, useful in English indexes and searches; not a separate exonym.
- **Colmar** — Historical German administrative spelling for the Polish town; distinguish Colmar in Alsace. Attested in English archival catalogues.
- **Chodschesen** — Older German name attested in the historical Polish geographical dictionary, relevant to archival searching.
- **Kodschesen** — Older German spelling encountered in historical town-name references; less familiar in English than Chodziesen.

## French name

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

Other forms in use:

- **Kolmar in Posen** — German historical name quoted in French sources.
- **Chodziesen** — Older German name useful in historical searches.
- **Chodziez** — Unaccented search form in French plain text; retain the native diacritics in edited French.
- **Colmar** — German historical name quoted in historical material; the Polish town must be distinguished from Colmar in Alsace.

## About

Chodzież is a town among lakes in Greater Poland Voivodeship, north of Poznań. Its industrial history is especially associated with porcelain and other ceramics.

## Notes

The historical Kolmar name refers here to the Polish town, not Colmar in France. Input label 'Ходзеж' is Ukrainian or indirect; local\_name gives the native spelling. Wikidata is missing in the input and is left empty pending entity verification. Historical spellings: https://wikisource.org/wiki/S%C5%82ownik\_geograficzny\_Kr%C3%B3lestwa\_Polskiego/Chodzie%C5%BC ; https://www.zikaron.tourolib.org/archival-records/chodziez .

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