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| | Poleszuk - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01) |
 | | Poleszuk (Polish), Poliszuk or Polishchuk (local Ukrainian dialect), Palyashchuk (Belarusian), or Poleshchuk (Russian) is the name given to the people who populated the swamps of Polesie. |
 | | When asked for their nationality, they usually answered tutejszy ("I am local"), so during a census in the Polish part of the Russian Empire they were generally categorized as "others" or, depending on their religion, as "Poles" or "Belarusians". |
 | | The Poleszuk dialect, close to the Ukrainian, Belarusian and Polish languages, was recently assigned as a dialect of Ukrainian. |
| www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Poleshuks (310 words) |
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