Group
Poles (West Slavs)
The Polish people, or Poles) are a nation and a West Slavic ethnic group native to Poland.The preamble to the Constitution of the Republic of Poland defines the Polish nation as comprising all the citizens of Poland.
Poland's inhabitants live in the following historic regions of the country: Wielkopolska, Małopolska, Mazovia (Polish: Mazowsze), Silesia (Polish: Śląsk), Pomerania (Polish: Pomorze), Kujawy, Warmia, Mazury, and Podlasie.
A wide-ranging Polish diaspora exists throughout Europe (Germany, France, the United Kingdom, Belarus, Lithuania and Ukraine), the Americas (the United States, Brazil and Argentina) and Australia.
Chicago, in the United States, has the world's largest urban Polish population after Warsaw.Over a thousand years ago, the Polans of Giecz, Gniezno and Poznań — an influential tribe in Wielkopolska — succeed in uniting Lechitic tribes under what becomes the Piast dynasty, thus giving rise to the Polish state.
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- Berlin Berlin Germany Location
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- Chelm Chelm Poland Location
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- Czerwién Poznan Poland Location
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- Dubienka Chelm Poland Location
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- Dziadoszyce Zielona Gora Poland Location
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- Elblag (Elbing) Elblag Poland Location
- Esztergom Komarom-Esztergom Hungary Location
- Gdansk (Danzig) Gdansk Poland Location
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- Kamenec-Podol'skij > Kamianets-Podilskyi > Kamyanets-Podilsky > Kamieniec Podolski Khmel'nyts'ka Oblast Ukraine Location
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- Leczyca Plock Poland Location
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- Myslibórz Gorzow Poland Location
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- Plock Plock Poland Location
- Polaniec Staszów Świętokrzyskie Poland Location
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- Poznan Poznan Poland Location
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- Przemysl Przemysl Poland Location
- Pécs Baranya Hungary Location
- Rab Primorje-Gorski Kotar Croatia Location
- Racławice Miechów Lesser Poland Poland Location
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- Regensburg Bayern Germany Location
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- Sandomierz Tarnobrzeg Poland Location
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- Spycimierz Konin Poland Location
- St Peterburg > St Petersburg Sankt-Peterburg Russia Location
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- Stettin > Szczecin Szczecin Poland Location
- Suceava Suceava Romania Location
- Swiecie Bydgoszcz Poland Location
- Szczecin (Stettin) Szczecin Poland Location
- Szczekociny Zawiercie Silesian Poland Location
- Székesfehérvár Fejer Hungary Location
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- Terespol Biala Podlaska Poland Location
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