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# Wodzisław Śląski

A settlement in Poland.

## English name

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

Other forms in use:

- **Wodzislaw Slaski** — Diacritic-free rendering of the Polish name, used where Polish letters are unavailable; not the official spelling.
- **Loslau** — Historical German name, used in English accounts of the town before 1945 and in historical or family records; not the current official name.
- **Wodzisław** — Shortened Polish name; ambiguous without regional context.
- **Wodzislaw** — Diacritic-free version of the short name.

## French name

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

Other forms in use:

- **Wodzislaw Slaski** — Accent-stripped form also encountered in French indexes and travel searches; the Polish spelling is preferred in edited French.
- **Loslau** — German historical name retained in French writing about the former German town and in references to German sources.
- **Wodzisław** — Short form used when the Silesian location is understood.

## About

Wodzisław Śląski is a town in southern Silesian Voivodeship near the Czech border. Its old market square sits within the wider Upper Silesian mining region.

Identifiers: [Wikidata Q500260](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q500260) · [JSON](https://md.locations.elamur.ai/free/en/poland/wodzislaw-slaski/?format=json)


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