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Kashubian Unity Day ( csb, Dzéń Jednotë Kaszëbów, pl, Dzień Jedności Kaszubów) is an annual festival celebrated every March 19 to commemorate the first historical written mention of Kashubians, in Pope Gregory IX's Bull of 19 March 1238. In this bull, the Pope referred to Prince Bogislaw I of Pomerania (d. 1187) as ''duce Cassubie'' (duke of Kashubia).
Sponsored and coordinated by the Kashubian-Pomeranian Association, the annual Kashubian Unity Day is designed to promote Kashubian culture. It includes folk art fairs, exhibitions, crafts, and a tournament of the traditional Kashubian card game, "Baszka." Another, newer, feature is the competition to better the world record for the number of people simultaneously playing the
Kashubian Unity Day ( csb, Dzéń Jednotë Kaszëbów, pl, Dzień Jedności Kaszubów) is an annual festival celebrated every March 19 to commemorate the first historical written mention of Kashubians, in Pope Gregory IX's Bull of 19 March 1238. In this bull, the Pope referred to Prince Bogislaw I of Pomerania (d. 1187) as ''duce Cassubie'' (duke of Kashubia).
Sponsored and coordinated by the Kashubian-Pomeranian Association, the annual Kashubian Unity Day is designed to promote Kashubian culture. It includes folk art fairs, exhibitions, crafts, and a tournament of the traditional Kashubian card game, "Baszka." Another, newer, feature is the competition to better the world record for the number of people simultaneously playing the accordion
Accordions (from 19th-century German ''Akkordeon'', from ''Akkord''—"musical chord, concord of sounds") are a family of box-shaped musical instruments of the bellows-driven free-reed aerophone type (producing sound as air flows past a reed ...
. Kashubian Unity Day is also noted for its use of social media to promote the event, and its Facebook page is a very useful source for both festival information and news pertaining to Kashubian life and culture.https://www.facebook.com/dzien.jednoscikaszubow
Kashubian Unity Day has been held in the following locations:
* 2005: Gdańsk
Gdańsk ( , also ; ; csb, Gduńsk;Stefan Ramułt, ''Słownik języka pomorskiego, czyli kaszubskiego'', Kraków 1893, Gdańsk 2003, ISBN 83-87408-64-6. , Johann Georg Theodor Grässe, ''Orbis latinus oder Verzeichniss der lateinischen Benen ...
* 2006: Tuchomie
Tuchomie ( csb, Tëchòmié, german: Groß Tuchen) is a village in Bytów County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, in northern Poland. It is the seat of the gmina (administrative district) called Gmina Tuchomie. It lies approximately west of Bytów
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* 2007: Kramarzyny
* 2008: Miastko
* 2009: Bytów
* 2010: Kartuzy
* 2011: Słupsk
* 2012: Brusy
* 2013: Kościerzyna
* 2014: Sierakowice
* 2015: Sulęczyno
Sulęczyno ( csb, Sëlëczëno, german: Sullenschin) is a village in Kartuzy County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, in northern Poland. It is the seat of the gmina (administrative district) called Gmina Sulęczyno. It lies approximately west of Kartuzy ...
* 2016: Bojano
* 2017: Chmielno
* 2018: Kosakowo
See also
*World Congress of Kashubians
In its most general sense, the term "world" refers to the totality of entities, to the whole of reality or to everything that is. The nature of the world has been conceptualized differently in different fields. Some conceptions see the worl ...
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References
{{reflist Kashubian culture History of ethnic groups in Poland Public holidays in Poland March observances Spring (season) events in Poland