Polish people
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Polish people, or Poles, are a West Slavic ethnic group and a nation who share a common history, culture, the Polish language and are identified with the country of Poland in Central Europe. The pream
Fragment of Gesta Hammaburgensis ecclesiae pontificum (1073) by Adam of Bremen, containing the name "Polans": "trans Oddaram sunt Polanos"
Artefacts showing the metallurgy and bronze making of the Lusatian culture, Pomerania, 8th century BCE
One of the earliest surviving tomb effigies of a Polish king – Władysław I the Elbow-high – at Wawel Cathedral in Kraków
Portrait of a noble couple (szlachta) in prayer, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, c. 1625
Lechites
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Lechites, also known as the Lechitic tribes, is a name given to certain West Slavic tribes who inhabited modern-day Poland and eastern Germany, and were speakers of the Lechitic languages. Distinct fr
Polish people
…Poles are within the Warsaw metropolitan area and the Katowice urban area. Ethnic Poles are considered to be the descendants of the ancient West Slavic Lechites and other tribes that inhabited the Polish territories during the late antiquity period. Poland's recorded history dates back over a thousand years to…
Depiction of the legendary ruler Lech in Chronica Polonorum by chronicler Maciej Miechowita (Matthias de Miechow)