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# Pińczów

A settlement in Poland.

## English name

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

Other forms in use:

- **Pintchov** — Historical spelling listed in the English JewishGen community and cemetery indexes.
- **Pinchev** — Yiddish-derived spelling explicitly listed in JewishGen.
- **Pin'chuv** — Russian-based historical spelling explicitly listed in JewishGen.
- **Pinchov** — Historical Latin spelling listed in JewishGen.
- **Pintshev** — Yiddish-derived historical spelling listed in JewishGen.
- **Pinczow** — Diacritic-free typing or indexing form of Pińczów for English retrieval; not a separate official name. Independent prose frequency is unverified.

## French name

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

Other forms in use:

- **Pintchov** — Jewish historical name for retrieval in French-language sources; exact frequency in French prose is unverified.
- **Pinchev** — Yiddish-derived name in the JewishGen index, useful for French Jewish-history retrieval; independent French prose frequency unverified.
- **Pintshev** — Historical Yiddish-derived form relevant to French bibliographic searches; used in the title of a memorial book.
- **Pinczow** — Diacritic-free typing or indexing form of Pińczów for French retrieval; not a separate official name. Independent prose frequency is unverified.

## About

Pińczów is a town in the Nida valley in southern Poland. It was an important centre of the Reformation and preserves monuments linked to its Renaissance patrons and former Jewish community.

## Notes

Additional historical spellings are verified in the English JewishGen cemetery/community indexes; their usefulness in French research does not establish frequency in French prose. https://cdp.jewishgen.org/eastern-europe/poland/pinczow Reference pages checked 2026-11-15: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pińczów ; https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pińczów.

Identifiers: [Wikidata Q275592](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q275592) · [JSON](https://md.locations.elamur.ai/free/en/poland/pinczow/?format=json)


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