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# Skoczów

A settlement in Poland.

## English name

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

Other forms in use:

- **Skotschau** — German historical name used in English histories of Austrian Silesia.
- **Skočov** — Czech name used in English accounts of the Cieszyn border region.
- **Skoczow** — Diacritic-free search and plain-text spelling of the local Latin name; not a separate official name.

## French name

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

Other forms in use:

- **Skotschau** — German historical name explicitly given in the French reference entry.
- **Skočov** — Czech name explicitly identified in the French reference entry.
- **Skoczow** — Same local name without its diacritics, useful in French indexes, URLs and plain-text sources.

## About

Skoczów is a town on the upper Vistula in Cieszyn Silesia, southern Poland. It lies near the Beskid foothills and is associated with the martyr John Sarkander.

Identifiers: [Wikidata Q987786](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q987786) · [JSON](https://md.locations.elamur.ai/free/en/poland/skoczow/?format=json)


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