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	Muzeum Kaszubskie
		The individual character of the Kashubian character and language was first described by the Russian scholar Aleksander Hilferding, to whom we are indebted for the first data about the range of Kashubian dialects.
		Kashubian ceramics is characterised by the unique motifs of the Kashubian star, fish-scales, tulips, lilies, wreaths, lilac branches, all complemented by wavy lines and dots.
		The most characteristic for Kashubian bands is a percussion instrument - the devil's fiddle, composed of a stick and a board in the shape of a violin, capped with a coloured demon in a spangled hat.
	www.muzeum-kaszubskie.gda.pl /eng.html (1610 words)

	Syrena Polish Folk Dance Ensemble - Kaszuby
		The Kashubian people make their living from sea and fresh water fishing, farming, cattle breeding, hunting, collecting the honey of wild bees and working with amber which is so plentiful on the Baltic Sea shores.
		The Kashubian way of speaking differs so much from the rest of Poland that, for instance, a Polish goral [GOO-rahl], a mountaineer from the Tatra mountains whose "gwara" is influenced by the Carpathian shepherds' culture and a polish rybak [RIH-bahk], a fisherman from the Baltic Sea, might not be able to understand each other.
		The costume illustrated is typical of the Kashubian Lake district in the early nineteenth century.
	www.syrenadancers.com /content/view/35/2/lang,en (3113 words)

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		The Kashubians were given the chance to act within the framework of the existing Kashubian organizations, however their "progress" was in advance limited to scheme imposed by the Polish totalitarian state.
		Kashubian language, as reduced to a local dialect by the state propaganda, was only spoken at home.
		The fact that the Kashubian Switzerland, as this region is also called, is one the most popular regions visited by tourists, contributed to the increase of significance of the predominant Polish language.
	szkola.interklasa.pl /f019/strona/ang/history.html (1483 words)

	KASZUBSKI INSTYTUT ROZWOJU
		Kashubian Institute of Development was the co-organizer of V Kashubian Economic Forum (1-2 May 2002).
		The main result of the project was preparing the Kashubians to European integration and preserving their ethnic and cultural character.
		Having accomplished the project "The Convention of the Kashubians - the role of ethnic groups in European Union" Kashubian Institute for Development was capable of teaching Ko¶cierzyna District teachers European Union issues.
	www.kir.org.pl /english.htm (869 words)

	Kashubians - Definition, explanation
		Kashubians (also "Kassubians", or "Cassubians", in Kashubian: "Kaszëbi") are a Slavic ethnic group living in modern-day northwestern Poland.
		Kashubians living in the territories of the former Duchy of Pomerania, among them Slovincians, were almost entirely Germanised between the 14th and 20th centuries and lost their ethnic identity.
		Scientific interest in the Kashubian language was sparked by Mrongovius (publications in 1823, 1828) and the Russian linguist Hilferding (1859, 1862), later followed by Biskupski (1883, 1891), Bronisch (1896, 1898), Mikkola (1897), Nitsch (1903).
	www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/k/ka/kashubians.php (804 words)

	SurLaLune Fairy Tales: Sixty Folk-Tales From Exclusively Slavonic Sources by A. H. Wratislaw
		THE Kashubians inhabit a small district in the North-east of Pomerania, 'the province upon the sea,' from po, upon, and more, the sea.
		The limits of the district may be roughly marked by the towns of Leba, Lauenburg and Bütow or Bytom.
		The Kashubian tales again would naturally be pressed into the service of the surrounding Germans.
	www.surlalunefairytales.com /books/slavonic/wratislaw/kashubian.html (169 words)

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		The Kashubians were given the chance to act within the framework of the existing Kashubian organizations, however their "progress" was in advance limited to scheme imposed by the Polish totalitarian state.
		Kashubian language, as reduced to a local dialect by the state propaganda, was only spoken at home.
		The fact that the Kashubian Switzerland, as this region is also called, is one the most popular regions visited by tourists, contributed to the increase of significance of the predominant Polish language.
	www.interklasa.pl /portal/dokumenty/f019/strona/ang/history.html (1483 words)

	Kashubians Information
		Kashubians, Kassubians, or Cassubians (Kashubian: Kaszëbi) are a Slavic ethnic group living in modern-day northwestern Poland.
		It is believed that the ancestors of the Kashubians came into the region between the Odra and Vistula rivers during the Migration Period.
		Scientific interest in the Kashubian language was sparked by Mrongovius (publications in 1823, 1828) and the Russian linguist Hilferding (1859, 1862), later followed by Biskupski (1883, 1891), Bronisch (1896, 1898), Mikkola (1897), Nitsch (1903).
	www.bookrags.com /wiki/Kashubians (928 words)

	Kashubian
		Kashubians (also "Kassubians", in Kashubian: "Kaszëbë") are a Polish ethnic group.
		Kashubians living in territories of the former Duchy of Pomerania, so called Slovincy were almost entirely Germanised between the 14th and 20th centuries and lost their ethnic identity.
		Number of Kashubians depends in fact on definitions and in most extreme case is estimated as half of million people.
	www.teachersparadise.com /ency/en/wikipedia/k/ka/kashubian.html (331 words)

	Kashubians - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Kashubians living in the territories of the former Duchy of Pomerania, among them Slovincians, were almost entirely Germanised between the 14th and 20th centuries and lost their ethnic identity.
		Scientific interest in the Kashubian language was sparked by Mrongovius (publications in 1823, 1828) and the Russian linguist Hilferding (1859, 1862), later followed by Biskupski (1883, 1891), Bronisch (1896, 1898), Mikkola (1897), Nitsch (1903).
		The next stages were: the Young Kashubian movement led by Aleksander Majkowski and the authors publishing in the nationalist "Zrzësz Kaszëbskô" (the so called "Zrzëszincë" group) who contributed significantly to the development of the Kashubian literary language.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Kassubians (762 words)

	Kids.Net.Au - Encyclopedia > Kashubian
		Kashubians (also "Kassubians", in Kashubian: "Kaszëbë") came into the region between the Oder and Vistula rivers over 1500 years ago.
		Kashubians living in territories of the former Duchy of Pomerania were almost entirely Germanised between the 14th and 20th centuries and lost their ethnic identity.
		In the modern day some 200,000 Kashubians still speak Kashubian, a West Slavic language, together with Polish belonging to Lechitic[?] group of languages, mainly in northern Poland.
	www.kids.net.au /encyclopedia-wiki/ka/Kashubian?title=Barnim_I_of_Pomerania (224 words)

	Poland City
		Kashubians, Poles, Germans and Prussians were slowly melting into one nation, and as national differences disappeared, the common goals of all the ethnic and social groups of Prussia became more important later.
		Kashubians, Poles, Germans and Prussians were slowly melting into one nation, and as national differences disappeared, the common goals of all the ethnic and social groups of Prussia became more prominent.
		Kashubians, Poles, Germans and Prussians were slowly melting into one nation, and as national differences disappeared, the common goals of all the ethnic and social groups of Prussia saw the rapid economic development of their cities.
	eu51.mmtfinancial.com /polandcity.html (1356 words)

	Kashubians (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Kashubians (Kashubian: Kaszëbi; Polish: Kaszubi; German: Kaschuben), also called Kassubians or Cassubians, are a Slavic ethnic group living in northwestern Poland.
		Kashubians are the direct descendants of an early Slavic tribe of Pomeranians who took their name from the land in which settled, Pomerania (from Polish Pomorze, "the land along the sea").
		Kashubian Landscape Park, View from Tamowa Mountain, near Kartuzy and Lakes Kłodno, Białe, and Rekowo.
	www.1bx.com /en/Kashubia.htm (940 words)

	Kashubian language Information
		Kashubian or Cassubian (Kashubian: kaszëbsczi jãzëk, pòmòrsczi jãzëk, kaszëbskò-słowińskô mòwa) is one of the Lechitic languages, which are a group of Slavic languages.
		It is assumed that it evolved from the language spoken by some tribes of Pomeranians called Kashubians, in the region of Pomerania on the southern coast of the Baltic Sea between the Vistula and Oder rivers.
		A number of schools in Poland teach in Kashubian as a lecture language and it is used as an official alternative language for local administration purposes in parts of Pomorze Voivodship.
	www.bookrags.com /wiki/Kashubian_language (267 words)

	Omnipelagos.com ~ article "Kashubians"
		Kashubians are the direct descendants of an early Slavic tribe of Pomeranians, who took their name from the fact that they settled down in Pomerania (from Polish Pomorze, "the land along the sea").
		Around 50,000 Kashubians speak Kashubian, a West Slavic language belonging to the Lechitic group of languages in northern Poland.
		In 2005 the Kashubian language was made an official subject on the Polish matura (an exam roughly equivalent to English A-Level and French Baccalaureat) for the first time.
	www.omnipelagos.com /entry?n=kashubians (903 words)

	EUROPA - Education and Training - Regional and minority languages - Euromosaïc study
		Kashubian [kaszëbsczi (jãzek) / kaszëbizna] is a West Slavonic language spoken in northern Poland in the Pomorskie Voivodship.
		Kashubians are a Slavonic tribe descended from the Pomeranians (=‘people living by the sea’) who once settled in the whole territory of Pomerania and who now live in the area between Oder and Vistula.
		The use of Kashubian at school is based on the 2002 decree of the Minister for National Education and Sports which, unlike the 1992 decree, also allows ethnic groups to maintain their language and culture through the education system (see country report).
	ec.europa.eu /education/policies/lang/languages/langmin/euromosaic/pol3_en.html (1907 words)

	BT Research - Kashubian language (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Kashubian or Cassubian (Kashubian: kaszëbsczi jãzëk, pòmòrsczi jãzëk, kaszëbskò-słowińskô mòwa; Polish: język kaszubski, gwara kaszubska) is one of the Lechitic languages, a subgroup of the Slavic languages.
		Kashubian is assumed to have evolved from the language spoken by some tribes of Pomeranians called Kashubians, in the region of Pomerania, on the southern coast of the Baltic Sea between the Vistula and Oder rivers.
		A number of schools in Poland teach in Kashubian as a lecture language, and it is used as an official alternative language for local administration purposes in parts of the Pomeranian Voivodeship.
	www.breathittteens.com /research.php?title=Kashubian_language (301 words)

	Bambooweb: Kashub
		Kashubians (also "Kassubians," or "Cassubians," in Kashubian: "Kaszëbi") are a Slavic ethnic group.
		The number of Kashubians depends in fact on definitions and in the most extreme case it is estimated to be as high as 500,000.
		In the Polish census of 2002 5,100 people declared Kashubian nationality (while most of Kashubians preferred to declare Polish nationality and Kashubian ethnicity, there was no option to declare more than one nationality), and some 51,000 declared Kashubian as their home language.
	www.bambooweb.com /articles/k/a/Kashub.html (713 words)

	KANA - Kashubian Association of North America
		It is acknowledged today that Kashubians are the remnants of the western Slavonic Baltic tribes, speaking a language that is a link in the chain from the extinct languages of the Elbe Slavs and the present-day Polish.
		Kashubians represent a peculiar phenomenon-despite totally unfavourable conditions they have preserved their own language, customs, system of values, and also a social structure.
		Kashubians were critical of the situation after World War I. Many found the new reality dissatisfying, and the social situation in the frontiers was very difficult.
	www.ka-na.org /pomerania.html (1883 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Kashubians
		The traditional occupations of the Kashubians were agriculture and fishing; today the two are joined by the service and hospitality industry, and agrotourism.
		Kashubians are the direct descendants of an early Slavic tribe of Pomeranians who took their name from the land in which settled, Pomerania (from Polish Pomorze, "the land along the sea").
		Kashubian is considered among them as a dialect of the main language and a relict of historical national desintegration.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Kashubians (939 words)

	KANA - Kashubian Association of North America
		It is acknowledged today that Kashubians are the remnants of the western Slavonic Baltic tribes, speaking a language that is a link in the chain from the extinct languages of the Elbe Slavs and the present-day Polish.
		Kashubians were critical of the situation after World War I. Many found the new reality dissatisfying, and the social situation in the frontiers was very difficult.
		It has to be acknowledged, though, that all through the twenty year period Kashubian activists, irrespective of ideological differences, considered the existence of the Polish state and its presence on the Baltic coast to be of utmost importance.
	ka-na.org /pomerania.html (1883 words)

	Kashubian - Wikinfo
		Kashubians living in territories of the former Duchy of Pomerania, amongst them so called Slovincy, were almost entirely Germanised between the 14th and 20th centuries and lost their ethnic identity.
		In the modern day some 200,000 Kashubians still speak Kashubian, a West Slavic language, together with Polish belonging to Lekhitic group of languages, mainly in northern Poland.
		Number of Kashubians depends in fact on definitions and in most extreme case is estimated as half of million people.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Kashubian (1483 words)

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