Kaniów is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Popielów, within Opole County, Opole Voivodeship, in southern Poland.
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 and the E608 forced labour subcamp of the Stalag VIII-B/344 prisoner-of-war camp in the village. The village became again part of Poland after the defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II in 1945.
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