Otmuchów
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- Locality
- Otmuchów
- Region
- województwo opolskie
- Country
- Polska
- Population
- 5,181
- Timezone
- Europe/Warsaw
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Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Otmuchów
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Otmuchów - Ratusz.JPG
- Settlement.image_caption
- Town Hall
- Settlement.image_shield
- POL Otmuchów COA.svg
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- Poland
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- bottom
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Voivodeship
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Opole
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- County
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Nysa
- Settlement.subdivision_type3
- Gmina
- Settlement.subdivision_name3
- Otmuchów
- Settlement.established_title2
- Town rights
- Settlement.established_date2
- 1347
- Settlement.leader_party
- PiS
- Settlement.leader_title
- Mayor
- Settlement.leader_name
- Damian Nowakowski
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Otmuchów (pronounced: ; ) is a town in Nysa County, Opole Voivodeship, in southern Poland, with 6,581 inhabitants (2019).
==Etymology== The city was mentioned for the first time as Otemochow in 1155. It was named in its Old Polish form Othmuchow in the 13th-century Book of Henryków. The name Othmuchow was also listed in the Chronicles of the Kingdom of Poland written in the years 1455-1480 by Jan Długosz and the Latinized name Othmuchouie appeared in the Statuta synodalia episcoporum Wratislaviensium from 1475.
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