Jawor, Milicz County

Jawor
Village
Jawor
Coordinates: 51°35′33″N 17°20′15″E / 51.59250°N 17.33750°E / 51.59250; 17.33750
Country  Poland
Voivodeship Lower Silesian
County Milicz
Gmina Cieszków
For other places with the same name, see Jawor (disambiguation).

Jawor [ˈjavɔr] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Cieszków, within Milicz County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, in south-western Poland.[1] Prior to 1945 it was in Germany.

It lies approximately 5 kilometres (3 mi) south of Cieszków, 8 kilometres (5 mi) north-east of Milicz, and 56 kilometres (35 mi) north of the regional capital Wrocław.

The name Jawor means "sycamore".

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Coordinates: 51°35′33″N 17°20′15″E / 51.59250°N 17.33750°E / 51.59250; 17.33750

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