Talk:Sejny
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Two questions:
- What is Seinai District
- What is the number of Lithuanians there and what is the source for such a claim?
--Halibutt 13:23, Jun 10, 2005 (UTC)
http://www.lietuva.lt/index.php?Lang=5&ItemId=29641 - one of sources. http://home.online.no/~sveilund/polen/litauen.htm - another one. It should be Sejny district, mentioned in the first source. DeirYassin 13:36, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Does somebody disputes that there is 30% of Lithuanians? It is true that there are Lithuanians in northeast Poland, otherwise Lithuanian schools, newspaper and cultural facilities would not be functioning. So therefore I guess "according to some sources" is unneeded. Could you get somewhere online or such maybe results of latest census of the powiat? Also there is Lithuanian consulate in Seinai (which if not minority would not be there as it is a small town), "Lietuvių Namai" (Lithuanian house) organisation, "Seina" foundaton of Lithuanians, in the gymnasium (school) of Seinai there are Lithuanian classes which also has Lithuanian newspaper, etc. Not sure what there is to dispute. DeirYassin 15:41, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)
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- No, of course I don't dispute that there are Lithuanians there. Especially that Sejny is the centre of Lithuaian cultural life in Poland (school, cultural associations, even a monthly magazine). However, the 30% quota seems of low credibility, especially that it is supported mostly by sources written before the first census in 80 years in which there was a question about nationality. And in the census of 2001 there were roughly 5,800 Lithuanians in all Poland, all parts of it included (in addition to roughly 75.000 "born in Lithuania", that is people born in what is now Lithuania, since the GUS office used the current borders for easier decision of where one was born; large majority of them is between 50 and 80 years old now).
