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This article compares the results of the National Censuses of 2002 and 2011 regarding the Lemko minority inhabiting the area of ethnographic Lemkivshchyna. The text shows the controversies connected with internal divisions within the Lemko community and the assessment of the national censuses. The motif of references and comparisons to historical events in the Lemko land is supposed to explain the modern issues concerning the Lemko minority, especially the actual size of their population.