Sieradzans Explained

Group:	Sieradzans
Native Name:	Sieradzanie (Polish)
Regions:	Poland (Łódź Voivodeship)
Languages:	Polish (standard dialect, Lesser Poland dialect)
Religions:	Roman Catholicism
Related Groups:	Poles

Sieradzans is an ethnographic group of Polish people that originate from the historical region of Sieradz Land, located within borders of the Łódź Voivodeship, Poland. The group does not express much cultural separateness from other Poles. Historically, the group has been heavily inflected by the neighboring groups of Silesians, 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.