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unusual facts about Kashubian


Kaszëbskô Jednota

Kaszëbskô Jednota - is an association of people who want to actively participate in the life of the Kashubian nation and who recognize its right to cultural autonomy and self-identity within the multi-ethnic society, which constitutes uniform state of the Republic of Poland.


Drużno

Eastern Pomerania was the Duchy of Pomerelia, which spit into others including Kashubian-speaking areas west of Gdańsk.

E with diaeresis

E with diaeresis (Latin) (Ë, ë) - an Albanian and Kashubian letter

Friedrich Lorentz

He is the author of publications in the field of linguistics and Kashubian culture.

Hieronim Derdowski

Hieronim Derdowski (March 9, 1852, Wiele, Pomeranian Voivodeship, German Empire – August 13, 1902, Winona, Minnesota, USA) (Kashubian Hieronim Derdowsczi or Jarosz Derdowsczi), Kashubian-Polish intellectual and activist, was born to Kashubian parents in the Pomeranian village of Wiele.

Jan Rompsczi

After the war he finished his studies (Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń) and was strongly involved in Kashubian movement.

Juniperus communis

According to the old tradition, on Easter Monday Kashubian (Northern Poland) boys chase girls whipping their legs gently with juniper twigs.

Kashubian diaspora

1872 saw the founding of a small Kashubian community on Jones Island in Milwaukee's harbor by Kashubian immigrant Jacob Muza.

Marian Jeliński

Marian Jeliński (kashubian: Marión Jelińsczi) was born in Siemirowice (kashubian: Szëmrejce), in 1949.

Mass murders in Piaśnica

Piaśnica Wielka is a small Kashubian village located around 10 km from Wejherowo.

Mazurzenie

In the Polish and Kashubian dialects there are also other similar phenomena, jabłonkowanie (in the dialects of some Silesian Górale) and kaszubienie (in many variants of Kashubian).

Paul Breza

Paul Joseph Breza, Roman Catholic priest and Kashubian American activist, was born in Winona, Minnesota on June 23, 1937, the son of Joseph Peter and Alice Seraphine (Pehler) Breza, both of whom were descendants of Kashubian immigrants from Bytów, Poland.

Stanisław Pestka

Stanisław Pestka (born 1929 in Rolbik) is a Kashubian poet.

Szimón Krofey

Szimón Krofey was born in 1545 in the Kashubian village of Dąbie, Gmina Bytów, Poland.

Treder

Jerzy Treder (born 1942), Polish philologist and linguist, known as an expert in Kashubian studies

Wiele, Pomeranian Voivodeship

The most famous of Winona's immigrants from Wiele was Hieronim Derdowski, famed Kashubian poet and, after emigration to the United States, editor of the Winona Polish-language newspaper Wiarus.


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