Kaniów [ˈkaɲuf] (German: Hirschfelde) is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Popielów, within Opole County, Opole Voivodeship, in south-western Poland.[1]

Kaniów
Village
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Coordinates: 50°49′50″N 17°50′08″E
Country	Poland
Voivodeship	Opole Voivodeship
County	Opole County
Gmina	Popielów
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Vehicle registration	OPO

The village is traditionally inhabited by the Leśnioki ethnographic subgroup of the Polish people.

History

In the Middle Ages, the village was part of Piast-ruled Poland, and afterwards it was also part of Bohemia (Czechia), Prussia and Germany. During World War II, the Germans operated a forced labour camp for Jews[2] and the E608 forced labour subcamp of the Stalag VIII-B/344 prisoner-of-war camp in the village.[3] The village was restored to Poland after the defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II in 1945.

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На других языках

[de] Hirschfelde (Gemeinde Poppelau)