Editing Poznań (section)

==Names==
[[File:Poznań seal from XIV century.PNG|thumb|upright|left|14th-century seal showing Poznań's coat of arms.]]
{{See also|Names_of_European_cities_in_different_languages_(M–P)#P|l1=Names of Poznań in different languages}}
The name Poznań probably comes from the personal name ''Poznan'', which was in turn derived from the [[Polish language|Polish]] participle {{lang|pl|poznan(y)}} – "one who is known/recognized", and would mean "Poznan's town". It is also possible that the name comes directly from the verb ''poznać'', which means "to get to know" or "to recognize", so it may simply mean "known town".

The earliest surviving references to the city are found in the [[chronicle]]s of [[Thietmar of Merseburg]] written between 1012 and 1018: {{lang|la|episcopus Posnaniensis}} ("[[List of Bishops of Poznań|bishop of Poznań]]", in an entry for 970) and ''ab urbe Posnani'' ("from the city of Poznań", for 1005). The city's name appears in documents in the Latin [[nominative case]] as ''Posnania'' in 1236 and ''Poznania'' in 1247. The phrase ''in Poznan'' appears in 1146 and 1244.

The city's full official name is ''Stołeczne Miasto Poznań'' (The Capital City of Poznań), in reference to its role as a centre of political power in the [[Piast Poland|early Polish state]] under the [[Piast dynasty]]. Poznań is known as ''Posen'' in [[German language|German]], and was officially called ''Haupt- und Residenzstadt Posen'' (Capital and Residence City of Posen) between 20 August 1910 and 28 November 1918. The [[Latin]] names of the city are ''Posnania'' and ''Civitas Posnaniensis''. Its [[Yiddish language|Yiddish]] name is {{lang|yi|פּױזן}}, or ''Poyzn''.

In Polish, the city's name has masculine [[grammatical gender]].