Editing Jawor (section)

==Etymology==
The name of the city ''Jawor'' comes from the Polish word for "[[sycamore maple]]." The earliest recorded name dates from 1133 when the city was written down as Jawr and in 1203 as Jawor. Until the 16th century the name was written down in Latin in various forms such as: Iavor, Iavr, Javr, Javor, Jaur, Jaura, Jawer, Jauor. The Polish form Jawor continued to be used, for example, in painting from 1562 located in church of St.Martin.<ref>Jan Rybotycki: Jawor od zarania dziejów do roku 1263. Jawor: 1984.</ref> The other form Iawor is recorded in a document from 1248, and in a document from 1277 the name Iaver is used. 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 German name Jauer is a Germanized version of the original Slavic name, and by 1750 the Polish name Jawor was still used in Polish by Prussian authorities.<ref>[http://www.sbc.org.pl/dlibra/doccontent?id=26222&from=FBC ''Wznowione powszechne taxae-stolae sporządzenie, Dla samowładnego Xięstwa Sląska, Podług ktorego tak Auszpurskiey Konfessyi iak Katoliccy Fararze, Kaznodzieie i Kuratusowie Zachowywać się powinni. Sub Dato z Berlina, d. 8. Augusti 1750''.]</ref> The German name became official after 1763 and the Austro-Prussian war.