Jawor [ˈjavɔr] (German: Jauer) is a town in south-western Poland with 22,890 inhabitants (2019).

It is the seat of Jawor County, and lies approximately 61 kilometres (38 mi) west of the regional capital Wrocław.

Until the 16th century the name was written down in Latin in various forms such as: Iavor, Iavr, Javr, Javor, Jaur, Jaura, Jawer, Jauor.

In 1295, in the Latin work Liber fundationis episcopatus Vratislaviensis, the city is written as Jawor.

In the 1475 Latin Statuta Synodalia Episcoporum Wratislaviensium, which also contains the oldest Polish-language printing, it is seen as Jaworensis.

The town suffered during the Thirty Years' War (1618–1648) as a result of repeated invasions, occupations, religious persecutions and epidemics.

[4] In the 18th century, the town and region was the subject of Austrian-Prussian wars, eventually passing to Prussia in 1763.

During World War II the Germans imprisoned French and Norwegian women in the castle, participants of anti-German resistance movements.