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# Zbąszyń

A settlement in Poland.

## English name

**Zbąszyń** — Official Polish Latin-script name retained in English.

Other forms in use:

- **Bentschen** — Historical German name used in English regional history; not the current Polish civic name.
- **Sbansin** — Medieval documentary spelling quoted in English locality history; not a modern exonym.
- **Zbaszyn** — Diacritic-free typing/indexing variant of Zbąszyń for English retrieval; independent prose frequency is unverified.

## French name

**Zbąszyń** — Same as in English; used as the French geographical reference heading.

Other forms in use:

- **Bentschen** — German historical name explicitly used in the French locality reference, rather than a current French civic name.
- **Zbaszyn** — Diacritic-free typing/indexing variant of Zbąszyń for French retrieval; independent prose frequency is unverified.

## About

Zbąszyń is a town on the Obra River beside Lake Błędno in Greater Poland. Its position near the former German border made it an important railway and frontier town.

## Notes

Empty input Wikidata ID resolved to Q168905. Sources checked 2026-11-15: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zbąszyń ; https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zbąszyń.

Identifiers: [Wikidata Q168905](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q168905) · [JSON](https://md.locations.elamur.ai/free/en/poland/zbaszyn/?format=json)


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