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Below are links to subpages listing German language names of towns and villages in different regions of Poland. Due to the country's history, many of those names have been in actual use locally, and are thus not exonyms.
This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. ( April 2013 ) This is a list of German language place names in Poland , now exonyms for towns and villages in the Greater Poland Voivodeship .
Note that this list only includes towns whose German name is significantly different from the official (mainly French) form. ... Poland Polen English name German name ...
The lists include: name; Kreis (county, before 1945); Gemeinde (German municipality) today; Amt (German district) today; Landkreis (German county) today; Polish name today (if east of the Oder-Neisse line); Gmina (Polish municipality, if east of the Oder-Neisse line) today; Powiat (Polish county, if east of the Oder-Neisse line) today.
This is a list of Polish exonyms for cities, towns, municipalities, villages, islands, rivers, etc. located in Germany.Names officially used now are written in bold.Note that due to the complex Polish-German history, several listed names in eastern Germany have been in actual use as native names, and are thus NOT exonyms.
New Slavic names were adopted to replace names of German origin. In Poland, the Commission for the Determination of Place Names determined new names throughout the newly acquired lands, most often by reverting to a previous Slavic name, but often inventing new names. German names of major cities like Danzig, Königsberg or Breslau are still ...
Pages in category "Lists of German exonyms for places in Poland" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
All municipalities in Poland are governed regardless of their type under the mandatory mayor–council government system. Executive power in a rural gmina is exercised by a wójt, while the homologue in municipalities containing cities or towns is called accordingly either a city mayor (prezydent miasta) or a town mayor (burmistrz), all of them elected by a two-round direct election, while the ...