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Poland can be divided into historical and cultural regions (called ethnographic regions). The exact borders are not fully clear, as the regions are not official political or administrative units. Not all of those regions are inside modern Polish borders, nor do all of them have a Polish majority. They are delimited by culture, such as country traditions, traditional lifestyle, songs, tales, etc. To some extent regions correspond to the zones of Polish language dialects. This correspondence however is by no means strict.
In the borders of modern Poland there are nine historical regions:
Outside Poland there are several important historical regions, which were once part of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth or the Second Polish Republic. While those regions are important for Polish history, calling them Polish is controversial, as they were never dominated by ethnic Poles and now lie beyond the borders of Poland. They are:
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- Davies N., Boże igrzysko. Historia Polski, t. 1, Kraków 1994, p. 54-63.
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