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# Mikołów

A settlement in Poland.

## English name

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

Other forms in use:

- **Mikolow** — Diacritic-free rendering of the Polish name, used where Polish letters are unavailable; not the official spelling.
- **Nikolai** — Historical German name, used in English accounts of the town before 1945 and in historical or family records; not the current official name.

## French name

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

Other forms in use:

- **Mikolow** — Accent-stripped form also encountered in French indexes and travel searches; the Polish spelling is preferred in edited French.
- **Nikolai** — German historical name retained in French writing about the former German town and in references to German sources.

## About

Mikołów is a town in Silesian Voivodeship in southern Poland. Its old market centre lies on the southwestern side of the Upper Silesian industrial area.

Identifiers: [Wikidata Q659905](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q659905) · [JSON](https://md.locations.elamur.ai/free/en/poland/mikolow/?format=json)


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