Ostrów From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Redirected from Ostrow) Ostrów is a Polish name for a river island. It is a speculated etymological cognate of English "Easter" and German "Östern" (seeartikel). It appears in several Polish toponyms.
There are three cities in Poland known as Ostrów: Ostrów Lubelski, in the Lublin Voivodship Ostrów Mazowiecka, in the Masovian Voivodship Ostrów Wielkopolski, in the Greater Poland Voivodship Islands named Ostrów include: Ostrów, in Gdańsk Ostrów Lednicki, at the Lake of Lednica (Jezioro Lednickie) Ostrów Tumski, in Głogów Ostrów Tumski, in Poznań Ostrów Tumski in Wrocław