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The term "Polonia" is usually used in Poland to refer to people of Polish origin who live outside Polish borders. There is a notable Polish diaspora in the United States, Brazil, and Canada. France has a historic relationship with Poland and has a relatively large Polish-descendant population. Poles have lived in France since the 18th century.
Sergiusz Piasecki, Polish agent, covering the area of Soviet Belarus (1922–1926) Marcel Reich-Ranicki, Polish consul-general and intelligence agent in London (1948–1949); the most influential contemporary critic of German literature; Tadeusz Schaetzel, intelligence officer, chief of the General Staff's Section II (1926–1929)
There are roughly 20,000,000 people of Polish ancestry living outside Poland, making the Polish diaspora one of the largest in the world [1] and one of the most widely dispersed. Reasons for displacement include border shifts, forced expulsions, resettlement by voluntary and forced exile, and political or economic emigration .
They shared fundamentally common culture and language and together they formed what is now Polish ethnicity and the culture of Poland. This process is called ethnic consolidation in which several ethnic communities of kindred origin and cognate languages, merge into a single one. [4] The following Slavic tribes are considered as Polish: Polans
The Polish People's Republic (Polska Rzeczpospolita Ludowa) was officially proclaimed in 1952. In 1956, after the death of Bolesław Bierut, the régime of Władysław Gomułka became temporarily more liberal, freeing many people from prison and expanding some personal freedoms. Collectivisation in the Polish People's Republic failed.
Wikipedia categories named after Polish people (13 C) Pages in category "Polish people" The following 2 pages are in this category, out of 2 total.
Polish people of North American descent (4 C) R. Polish Romani people (8 P) S. Polish people of South American descent (2 C) This page was last edited on 21 February ...
In the Polish census of 2002, 48,700 people said that they belong to this group. [10] This number fell to 46,800 in the 2011 census. [ 18 ] They live in close concentrations in southern and eastern Białystok , near and in areas adjoining the Polish-Belarusian border.