Jaworów, Lower Silesian Voivodeship

Jaworów [jaˈvɔruf] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Wiązów, within Strzelin County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, in south-western Poland.

[1] It lies approximately 8 kilometres (5 mi) east of Wiązów, 18 kilometres (11 mi) east of Strzelin, and 41 kilometres (25 mi) south-east of the regional capital Wrocław.

The town was a favourite residence of John III Sobieski, who there received the congratulations of the pope and the Venetian republic on his success in the Battle of Vienna (1683).

[2] At Jaworów Peter the Great was betrothed to Catherine I.

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