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# Ostrzeszów

A settlement in Poland.

## English name

**Ostrzeszów** — The official Polish Latin-script name, retained in English with its Polish spelling; no romanization is needed.

Other forms in use:

- **Schildberg** — German historical name, especially relevant to English accounts of wartime prisoner-of-war camps.
- **Ostrzeszow** — Diacritic-free search and plain-text spelling of the local Latin name; not a separate official name.

## French name

**Ostrzeszów** — Same form as in English; retained in the French reference entry checked.

Other forms in use:

- **Schildberg** — German historical camp-location name for French wartime searches; not a current French name.
- **Ostrzeszow** — Same local name without its diacritics, useful in French indexes, URLs and plain-text sources.

## About

Ostrzeszów is a town in southern Greater Poland. A surviving castle tower marks its medieval past, while its wartime history includes prisoner-of-war camps for Allied servicemen.

Identifiers: [Wikidata Q642192](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q642192) · [JSON](https://md.locations.elamur.ai/free/en/poland/ostrzeszow/?format=json)


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