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# Puławy

A settlement in Poland.

## English name

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

Other forms in use:

- **Pulawy** — Diacritic-free rendering of the Polish name, used where Polish letters are unavailable; not the official spelling.
- **Nowa Aleksandria** — Official name under Russian imperial rule, 1846–1918; Polish rendering of New Alexandria.
- **Novo-Aleksandriya** — Russian-based rendering of the imperial-period name, used in older English geographical sources.

## French name

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

Other forms in use:

- **Pulawy** — Accent-stripped form also encountered in French indexes and travel searches; the Polish spelling is preferred in edited French.
- **Nouvelle-Alexandrie** — Translated imperial-period name in French historical geography; replaced by Puławy in 1918.
- **Nowa Aleksandria** — Polish form of the imperial-period name, quoted in French historical works.

## About

Puławy is a town on the Vistula in Lublin Voivodeship in eastern Poland. The Czartoryski palace and park recall its role as a centre of Polish cultural life.

## Notes

Imperial New Alexandria is unrelated to Alexandria in Egypt.

Identifiers: [Wikidata Q320007](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q320007) · [JSON](https://md.locations.elamur.ai/free/en/poland/pulawy/?format=json)


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