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The Slavic peoples are the most numerous ethnic and linguistic body of peoples in Europe. They speak Slavic languages and reside chiefly in the east of that continent, but are also found in Asia east to the Pacific Ocean.1 Ethno-cultural subdivisions
One can customarily divide the Slavs into the following subgroups:
- East Slavs:
- West Slavs:
- Poles
- Mazurians
- SilesianSilesian language can refer to the Silesian a dialect of Polish, sometimes considered a separate Western Slavonic language related to Czech and Polish), or the Lower Silesian (a dialect of German). Both are spoken in the region of Silesia. Silesian can als
- WarmiakThe Warmiak are a Polish ethnic group from Warmia, mostly Roman Catholics. Between the 14th and 17th centuries, settlers from northern Mazovia moved to former teritories of Old Prussians following their conquest by Teutonic Order. Since the bishopry of Was
- PomeraniansPomeranians Pomorzanie are a group of Slavic tribes living in historical region of Pomerania along the shore of Baltic Sea between Oder and Vistula rivers. Today this region is known as the Eastern Pomerania (or Gdansk Pomerania). They used to speak diale
- KashubiansKashubians (also Kassubians " or Cassubians " in Kashubian: Kaszebi ) are a Slavic ethnic group living in modern-day northwestern Poland. They are the direct descendants of an early Slavic tribe of Pomeranians, who took their name from the fact that they
- Slovincians
- KociewiacyThe Kociewiacy are a Polish ethnic group. They live in Pomerania south of Gdansk. Their biggest city is Starogard Gdanski. The region they inhabit is called Kociewie and has well developed industry and agriculture. Most of the Kociewiacy are Roman Catholi
- BorowiacyThe Borowiacy are a Polish ethnic group who traditionally inhabit the area of the Tuchola forests near Tuchola in eastern Pomerania.
- CzechsCzechs are a western Slavic people of Central Europe, living in the Czech Republic, but also in small parts of Slovakia and Hungary. They speak the Czech language. They are descendants of ancient Celtic, Thracian and Slavic tribes who inhabited the region
- Slovaks
- Sorbs (Lusatians, Serb-Lusatians)
- South Slavs:
