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| | Everything You Wanted To Know about Poland: September 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) |
 | | the Polanie or Poliane ('people of the plain'), : "According to Polish myth, the Slavic nations trace their ancestry to three brothers who parted in the forests of Eastern Europe, each moving in a different direction to found a family of distinct but related peoples. |
 | | One of these tribes, the Polanie or Poliane ('people of the plain'), settled in the flatlands that eventually formed the heart of Poland, lending their name to the country. |
 | | Since 'polana' is Polish for meadow, glen or clearing, Polanie can be interpreted as 'the people of the meadows.' Again, since Malopolska is a region that is hilly and meadows there would be small, it is tempting to speculate that originally the term Malopolska referred to a region which had small meadows. |
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