Łęczycans Explained

Group:	Łęczycans
Native Name:	Łęczycanie (Polish)
Regions:	Poland (Łódź Voivodeship)
Languages:	Łęczycan (Polish)
Religions:	Roman Catholicism
Related Groups:	Other Poles, especially Lesser Poland people

Łęczycans is an ethnographic group of Polish people that originate from the historical region of Łęczyca Land, located within borders of the Łódź Voivodeship, Poland. The group currently does not express much cultural separateness from other Poles. Historically, the group has been heavily inflected by the neighboring groups of Masovians, Greater Poland people, and Lesser Poland people.^{[1] [2] [3] [4]}

Notes and References

1. G. Odoj, A. Peć: Dziedzictwo kulturowe – edukacja regionalna. Dzierżoniów: Wydawnictwo Alex, 2000, p. 74, ISBN 83-85589-35-X, OCLC 749376082.
2. Janusz Kamocki: Zarys grup etnograficznych w Polsce. In: Polskie Towarzystwo Turystyczno-Krajoznawcze: Ziemia 1965 – Prace i materiały krajoznawcze. Warsaw: Wydawnictwo Sport i Turystyka, 1966, p. 112.
3. Jan Stanisław Bystroń: Ugrupowanie etniczne ludu polskiego. Kraków: Orbis, 1925, p. 13, 22.
4. Jan Stanisław Bystroń: Etnografia Polski. Poznań: Spółdzielnia Wydawnicza Czytelik, 1947, p. 28.