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# Kolno

A settlement in Poland.

## English name

**Kolno** — Current official Polish Latin-script name, retained in English with its local spelling; no Cyrillic romanization is required.

Other forms in use:

- **Kolne** — Yiddish-derived name used in Jewish historical and genealogical references; not the modern civic name.
- **Kolna** — Yiddish-derived historical name explicitly listed in JewishGen.
- **Kol'no** — Russian-based historical spelling explicitly listed in the English JewishGen index.
- **Kalinas** — Lithuanian name explicitly listed in the English JewishGen index; English prose frequency unverified.

## French name

**Kolno** — Same form as in English; retained in French reference usage, without a separate French exonym.

Other forms in use:

- **Kolne** — Jewish historical name for retrieval in French-language sources; exact frequency in French prose is unverified.
- **Kolna** — Yiddish-derived historical form in JewishGen, useful in French bibliographic searches; independent French prose frequency unverified.

## About

Kolno is a county town in Podlaskie Voivodeship in northeastern Poland. It belongs to the historic Mazovia borderlands and once had a substantial Jewish community.

## Notes

This is the county town Kolno in Podlaskie, not the village of the same name in Warmia. Reference pages checked 2026-11-15: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolno ; https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolno\_(Podlachie). Historical variants: https://cdp.jewishgen.org/eastern-europe/poland/kolno ; https://libguides.nypl.org/yizkorbooks/k .

Identifiers: [Wikidata Q1614791](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1614791) · [JSON](https://md.locations.elamur.ai/free/en/poland/kolno/?format=json)


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