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# Ciechanów

A settlement in Poland.

## English name

**Ciechanów** — Current Polish Latin-script name, retained in English; no transliteration is needed.

Other forms in use:

- **Ciechanow** — Diacritic-free rendering of the Polish name, used where Polish letters are unavailable; not the official spelling.
- **Zichenau** — German occupation name during the Second World War; used in English accounts of Nazi administrative history.
- **Tsekhanov** — Russian-based spelling encountered in English imperial-period records.

## French name

**Ciechanów** — Same current Polish spelling as in English; no separate French exonym is selected.

Other forms in use:

- **Ciechanow** — Accent-stripped form also encountered in French indexes and travel searches; the Polish spelling is preferred in edited French.
- **Zichenau** — German name in French histories of the Nazi occupation and its administrative district.
- **Tsekhanov** — Russian-derived historical spelling, relevant when French works quote Russian imperial records.

## About

Ciechanów is a town on the Łydynia in northern Masovian Voivodeship. Its brick castle recalls its role as a seat of the dukes of Masovia.

Identifiers: [Wikidata Q745051](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q745051) · [JSON](https://md.locations.elamur.ai/free/en/poland/ciechanow/?format=json)


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