Lemkos are the group of Ruthenian population that reach furthest to the west and that stand apart from the Polish and the Slovak populations as far as their culture, religion and language are concerned. From the 14th ...

Polish-Belorussian borderland is the most diversified region in Poland in respect of nationality, culture and religion. It forms both an interstate borderland between Poland and Belarus and an internal ethnic, religious, ...

During several years the Polish-Ukrainian border was the barrier which strictly separated Polish and Ukrainian nation, as well as the area of the borderland. The situation changed for better after the fall of the communism. ...

The national and religious borderland in Podlasie is a zone with many transitory areas where different national, religious, linguistic and cultural groups overlap. There are hardly any clear dividing lines separating ...

The political, legal and social transformations which have taken place over the last 20 years brought about both positive and negative consequences for the situation of non-Polish nationalities. Positive consequences:  ...

The investigation has shown a strong sense of cultural, linguistic and national identity among Lemkos inhabiting the nowadays Lemko Region. Today, like it was on the turn of the 19th century and between the two World ...