This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "Pogórzanie" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (March 2015) (Learn how and when to remove this message)

Pogorzans

Pogorzans from Bukowsko, Bukowianie, a local Polish folk music group
Total population
700 000 (est.)
Regions with significant populations
Poland	500,000
United States	200,000
Languages
Polish
Religion
Predominantly Roman Catholic, with Protestant minorities
Related ethnic groups
Gorals and other Poles, Rusyns

Pogorzans (Polish: Pogórzanie; also known as Western Pogorzans and Eastern Pogorzans), form a distinctive subethnic group of Poles that mostly live in the Central Beskidian Range of the Subcarpathian highlands.^[1] The Pogorzans inhabit the central and the southern half of the Beskids in Poland, including the Ciężkowickie, Strzyżowskie and Dynowskie Plateau as well as Doły Jasielsko-Sanockie, from the White River (Biała) in the west to the San River in the east.

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Polish Uplanders (West Galicia).

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Walddeutsche (Polish Uplanders) exhibition sector at the Ethnographic Park of Sanok.

They represent the major population group inhabiting the Subcarpathian Voivodeship, living alongside German^[2][3] and Rusyn people. Historically, this region formed part of Galicia.

Pogorzans are neighbours with: the Lachy sądeckie to the west; Krakowiacy and Rzeszowiacy to the north; and Dolinians [pl] (vale-dwellers) and Lemkos (both Rusyn subgroups) to the south.

Cultural subdivisions of the Pogorzans distinguish the western Pogorzans (the area of Gorlice, Jasło and Dukla) from the eastern Pogorzans (Strzyżów, Krosno and Brzozów). The border between those two groups lies on the west from Krosno and Strzyżów. The differences between western and eastern groups were especially seen in architecture and in clothing.^{[citation needed]}

Traditional occupations of the Pogorzans included agriculture, oil-mining and the military; today these are joined by the service and petroleum industries, and by agrotourism. Polish scholars regard the Pogórzan dialect as part of the Lesser Polish dialect cluster.^{[citation needed]}

Eastern Pogorzan landscape

Blizne, Subcarpathia (Red Ruthenia) (c. 1450)	Haczów, Subcarpathia (Red Ruthenia) (1388) c. 1624	Binarowa, Subcarpathia (1400) c. 1500

History

In 1854 in the village Bóbrka near Krosno, the first oil field in the world began production.^[4]

Foods

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Cuisine of Galicia (Central Europe).

See also

• Gorals
• Museum of Folk Architecture, Sanok
• Rusyns

References

Bibliography

• Michael Burleigh. Germany Turns Eastwards: A Study of Ostforschung in the Third Reich. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1988. ISBN 978-0521351201
• Ernst Schwarz. Von den "Walddeutschen" in Galizien, "Schlesien" Jh. V. Z. III. S. 147–156.
• Wojciech Blajer. Bemerkungen zum Stand der Forschungen uber die Enklawen der mittelalterlichen deutschen Besiedlung zwischen Wisłoka und San. [in:] Późne średniowiecze w Karpatach polskich. red. Prof. Jan Gancarski. Krosno. 2007. ISBN 978-83-60545-57-7

External links

• Pogorzans
• Pogórzanie
• Gisele Hildebrandt, Otto Adamski. Dorfimfersuchungen in dem alten deutsch-ukrainischen Grenzbereich von Landshuf. Kraków. 1943. Urzejowice, (Urzejowice) Markowa (Markowa)