Otmuchów
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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
- Settlement.pushpin_label_position
- bottom
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Voivodeship
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Opole
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- County
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Nysa
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- Gmina
- Settlement.subdivision_name3
Key dates
- Inception
- 1115
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- Instance of
- city
- Country
- Poland
- Located in
- Gmina Otmuchów
- Continent
- Europe
- Population
- +6360
- Area
- +27.83
- Elevation
- +220
- Official website
- www.otmuchow.pl
- Image
- Otmuchów, kościół par. p.w. śś. Mikołaja i Franciszka Ksawerego, 1690-1701.JPG
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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.