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Anna Łajming
Anna Łajming (née Anna Żmuda Trzebiatowska; 24 July 1904 in the Kashubian village of Przymuszewo, Chojnice County – 13 July 2003 in Słupsk, Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland), one of thirteen children born to Jan and Marianna Żmuda Trzebiatowski. Although Anna Łajming was a prolific writer of Kashubian and Polish short stories, novels, memoirs, and plays, she did not publish her first work until 1958. As a young woman, she did clerical work in various towns including Tczew, where she met and married in 1929 a Tsarist Russian refugee named Nikolai Łajming. They were the parents of a daughter, Wera, and a son, Włodzimierz. In 1953 she and her family moved to Słupsk, where her husband's White Russian background would attract less unfavorable notice. In 2011, Blanche Krbechek and Stanisław Frymark published ''The Four Leafed Clover'', an English translation of her 1985 short story collection ''Czterolistna Koniczyna''. In 1974, Anna Łajming was awarded the "Stolem" meda ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anna Łajming
Anna Łajming (née Anna Żmuda Trzebiatowska; 24 July 1904 in the Kashubian village of Przymuszewo, Chojnice County – 13 July 2003 in Słupsk, Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland), one of thirteen children born to Jan and Marianna Żmuda Trzebiatowski. Although Anna Łajming was a prolific writer of Kashubian and Polish short stories, novels, memoirs, and plays, she did not publish her first work until 1958. As a young woman, she did clerical work in various towns including Tczew, where she met and married in 1929 a Tsarist Russian refugee named Nikolai Łajming. They were the parents of a daughter, Wera, and a son, Włodzimierz. In 1953 she and her family moved to Słupsk, where her husband's White Russian background would attract less unfavorable notice. In 2011, Blanche Krbechek and Stanisław Frymark published ''The Four Leafed Clover'', an English translation of her 1985 short story collection ''Czterolistna Koniczyna''. In 1974, Anna Łajming was awarded the "Stolem" meda ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kashubians
The Kashubians ( csb, Kaszëbi; pl, Kaszubi; german: Kaschuben), also known as Cassubians or Kashubs, are a Lechitic ( West Slavic) ethnic group native to the historical region of Pomerania, including its eastern part called Pomerelia, in north-central Poland. Their settlement area is referred to as Kashubia. They speak the Kashubian language, which is classified as a separate language closely related to Polish. The Kashubs are closely related to the Poles and sometimes classified as their subgroup. The Kashubs are grouped with the Slovincians as Pomeranians. Similarly, the Slovincian (now extinct) and Kashubian languages are grouped as Pomeranian languages, with Slovincian (also known as Łeba Kashubian) either a distinct language closely related to Kashubian,Dicky Gilbers, John A. Nerbonne, J. Schaeken, ''Languages in Contact'', Rodopi, 2000, p. 329, or a Kashubian dialect.Christina Yurkiw Bethin, ''Slavic Prosody: Language Change and Phonological Theory'', pp. 160ff, Camb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Przymuszewo, Chojnice County
Przymuszewo is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Brusy, within Chojnice County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, in northern Poland. It lies approximately north of Brusy, north of Chojnice, and south-west of the regional capital Gdańsk. For details of the history of the region, see History of Pomerania. References Villages in Chojnice County, Przymuszewo {{Chojnice-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Słupsk
Słupsk (; , ; formerly german: Stolp, ; also known by several alternative names) is a city with powiat rights located on the Słupia River in the Pomeranian Voivodeship in northern Poland, in the historical region of Pomerania or more specifically in its part known in contemporary Poland as Central Pomerania (''Pomorze Środkowe'') within the wider West Pomerania (''Pomorze Zachodnie''), while in Germany the corresponding area is known as East Pomerania (''Ostpommern'') within the wider Farther Pomerania (''Hinterpommern''). According to Statistics Poland, it has a population of 88,835 inhabitants while occupying , thus being one of the most densely populated cities in the country as of December 2021 . In addition, the city is the administrative seat of Słupsk County and the rural Gmina Słupsk, despite belonging to neither, while until 1999 it was the capital of Słupsk Voivodeship. Słupsk had its origins as a Pomeranian settlement in the early Middle Ages. In 1265 it was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pomeranian Voivodeship
Pomeranian Voivodeship, Pomorskie Region, or Pomerania Province (Polish: ''Województwo pomorskie'' ; ( Kashubian: ''Pòmòrsczé wòjewództwò'' ), is a voivodeship, or province, in northwestern Poland. The provincial capital is Gdańsk. The voivodeship was established on January 1, 1999, out of the former voivodeships of Gdańsk, Elbląg and Słupsk, pursuant to the Polish local government reforms adopted in 1997. It is bordered by West Pomeranian Voivodeship to the west, Greater Poland and Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeships to the south, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship to the east, and the Baltic Sea to the north. It also shares a short land border with Russia (Kaliningrad Oblast), on the Vistula Spit. The voivodeship comprises most of Pomerelia (the easternmost part of historical Pomerania), as well as an area east of the Vistula River. The western part of the province, around Słupsk, belonged historically to Farther Pomerania. The central parts of the province belong to Pomer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Poland
Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It is divided into 16 administrative provinces called voivodeships, covering an area of . Poland has a population of over 38 million and is the fifth-most populous member state of the European Union. Warsaw is the nation's capital and largest metropolis. Other major cities include Kraków, Wrocław, Łódź, Poznań, Gdańsk, and Szczecin. Poland has a temperate transitional climate and its territory traverses the Central European Plain, extending from Baltic Sea in the north to Sudeten and Carpathian Mountains in the south. The longest Polish river is the Vistula, and Poland's highest point is Mount Rysy, situated in the Tatra mountain range of the Carpathians. The country is bordered by Lithuania and Russia to the northeast, Belarus and Ukraine to the east, Slovakia and the Czech Republic to the south, and Germany to the west. It also shares maritime boundaries with Denmark and Sweden. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tczew
Tczew (, csb, Dërszewò; formerly ) is a city on the Vistula River in Pomerelia, Eastern Pomerania, Kociewie, northern Poland with 59,111 inhabitants (December 2021). The city is known for its Old Town and the Vistula Bridge, or Bridge of Tczew, which played a key role in the Invasion of Poland during World War II. It is the capital of Tczew County in the Pomeranian Voivodeship and the largest town of the ethnocultural region of Kociewie. The city is the location for the annual English Language Camp arranged by the American-Polish Partnership for Tczew. Geographical location Tczew is located on the west bank of river Vistula, approximately south of Gdańsk Bay at the Baltic Sea and south-east of Gdańsk. History Middle Ages Tczew (''Trsow'', ''Dersowe'', ‘weaver's town’) was first mentioned as ''Trsow'' in a document by Gdańsk Pomerania, Pomeranian Duke Grzymisław bestowing the land to the Knights Hospitaller in 1198. Around 1200 Sambor I, Duke of Pomerania, bui ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kashubian-Pomeranian Association
The Kashubian-Pomeranian Association ( Kashubian- Pomeranian: ''Kaszëbskò-Pòmòrsczé Zrzeszenié'', Polish: ''Zrzeszenie Kaszubsko-Pomorskie'') is a regional non-governmental organization of Kashubians ( Pomeranians), Kociewiacy and other people interested in the regional affairs of Kashubia and Pomerania in northern Poland. Its headquarters are in Gdańsk, Poland. The Kashubian Language Council ( Kashubian: Radzëzna Kaszëbsczégò Jãzëka; Polish: Rada Języka Kaszubskiego) is a body of the Kashubian-Pomeranian Association that oversees and promotes the Kashubian language. "Pomerania" is a monthly journal founded in 1963 which publishes in Polish and Kashubian. Presidents of the Association: * 1956–59: Aleksander Arendt * 1959–71: Bernard Szczęsny * 1971–76: Jerzy Kiedrowski * 1976–80: Stanisław Pestka * 1980–83: Izabella Trojanowska * 1983–86: Szczepan Lewna * 1986–92: Józef Borzyszkowski * 1992–94: Stanisław Pestka * 1994–98: Jan Wyrowiński * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kashubian Culture
Kashubian can refer to: * Pertaining to Kashubia, a region of north-central Poland * Kashubians, an ethnic group of north-central Poland * Kashubian language See also *Kashubian alphabet *Kashubian Landscape Park *Kashubian studies Kashubian studies, a branch of Slavic studies, is a philological discipline researching the language, literature, culture, and history of the Kashubians. The main centre for development of Kashubian studies is the Language and nationality disambiguation pages ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kashubian Literature
Kashubian language, Kashubian literature appeared in Poland during the second half of the nineteenth century with Florian Cejnowa (1817–1881), who used the Sławoszyno dialect of the Puck, Poland, Puck region, and Hieronim Derdowski (1852–1902), who used the Wiele dialect of the Chojnice County, Chojnice district. The latter enriched Kashubian literature especially in poetry. Aleksander Majkowski (1876–1938) used the dialect of Koscierzyna County, Koscierzyna-Lipusz, the district from which he came. His greatest achievement was the creation in 1908 of ''Gryf'', the Kashubian periodical. He also wrote the only pre-war Kashubian novel in 1938. In the last decade, about two hundred books have been published in Kashubian, including translations of international works. Anthologies and compendia have been written by Neureiter 1973, Drzeżdżon 1986, and Neureiter 1991. In 1907, Izydor Gulgowski (1874–1925) and Friedrich Lorentz founded the Association for Kashubian Folk Tradit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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