Ethno-Religious Heritage of Former Eastern Territories of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in Contemporary Poland

• Authors: Rykała, Andrzej

Abstracts

EN

The main objective of this paper is to present the national and religious heritage of the Eastern Borderlands in contemporary Poland. The paper deals with the genesis and selected aspects of the spatial development of the ethnic and religious minorities (mainly Tartars-Muslims, Karaites and Armenians) that date back to the eastern areas of the former Republic (including the territories of Belarus, Lithuania and Ukraine) but, due to the post-war border changes and migrations, formed clusters in contemporary Poland and organized various forms of group life.

Keywords

EN

ethno-religious heritage; ethnic minorities; religious minorities; Tartars-Muslims; Karaites; Armenians; Eastern Borderlands

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Łódzki. Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
• Journal: European Spatial Research and Policy
• Year: 2013
• Volume: 20
• Issue: 1

Dates

published

2013-07-03

Contributors

author

Rykała, Andrzej

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Department of Political Geography and Regional Studies, University of Łódź, 90-142 Łódź, ul. Kopcińskiego 31, Poland

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Identifiers

URI

http://hdl.handle.net/11089/10823