Wawelno

Wawelno is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Komprachcice, within Opole County, Opole Voivodeship, in southern Poland.

Key facts

Settlement.name: Wawelno
Settlement.other_name: Bowallno
Settlement.settlement_type: Village
Settlement.image_skyline: Wawlno ortsmitte.JPG
Settlement.image_caption: Center of the village
Settlement.subdivision_type: Country
Settlement.subdivision_type1: Voivodeship
Settlement.subdivision_name1: Opole
Settlement.subdivision_type2: County
Settlement.subdivision_name2: Opole
Settlement.subdivision_type3: Gmina
Settlement.subdivision_name3: Komprachcice
Settlement.pushpin_map: Poland
Settlement.pushpin_label_position: right
Settlement.population_total: 1200
Settlement.population_footnotes: (approx.)
Settlement.timezone: CET
Settlement.utc_offset: +1

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Wikidata facts

Official name: Wawelno
Country: Poland
Located in: Gmina Komprachcice
Population: 1127
Time zone: UTC+02:00
Image: Wawelno -pomnik.JPG
Licence plate code: OPO

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Commons category: Wawelno
postal code: 46-070
native label: Wawelno
male population: 521
female population: 606

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Wawelno is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Komprachcice, within Opole County, Opole Voivodeship, in southern Poland.

The earliest record of the village comes from . The name is of Polish origin, and comes from the word wąwel. In the past, it was known in Polish as Wawelno, Wąwolno and Bowalno. Under Nazi Germany, in 1936, it was renamed Walldorf to erase traces of Polish origin.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Wawelno” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.