Jaworów | |
Settlement Type: | Village |
Total Type: | |
Image Alt: | View of Jaworów in 2019 |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Type1: | Voivodeship |
Subdivision Name1: | Lower Silesian |
Subdivision Type2: | County |
Subdivision Name2: | Strzelin |
Subdivision Type3: | Gmina |
Subdivision Name3: | Wiązów |
Coordinates: | 50.8006°N 17.3078°W |
Pushpin Map: | Poland |
Jaworów is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Wiązów, within Strzelin County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, in south-western Poland.[1]
It lies approximately 8km (05miles) east of Wiązów, 18km (11miles) east of Strzelin, and 41km (25miles) 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).
At Jaworów Peter the Great was betrothed to Catherine I.