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Ethnic group
Kurpie
Regions with significant populations
Languages
Polish, Kurpie dialect
Religion
Roman Catholic
For villages with this name, see Kurpie Dworskie; Kurpie Szlacheckie; and Kurpie, Podlaskie Voivodeship.
A Kurpie house. Note the thatched roof.
Kurpie (Polish pronunciation:[ˈkurpʲɛ]) is one of a number of ethnic regions in Poland, noted for its unique traditional customs, such as its own types of traditional costume, traditional dance and distinctive type of architecture and livelihoods. Kurpie is also the name of the people of this culture.
The Kurpie region is located in Poland on a lowland plain called the Mazovian Region (Mazowsze), which was once covered over by two forests known as the Puszcza Zielona (the Green Wilderness) and the Puszcza Biała (the White Wilderness).
The Green Wilderness (Puszcza Zielona) is usually associated with the White Wilderness (Puszcza Biała), and together the two forests are often referred to as the Kurpie Forest (Puszcza Kurpiowska) because the two forests were populated by inhabitants who, over the centuries of isolation, developed a unique culture of their own, called Kurpie.
On today’s map, the Kurpie region is comprised in Masovian, Podlaskie and, to a small extent, the Warmian-Masurian regions. Populated areas in Kurpie today are generally in the towns of Myszyniec and Ostrołęka and the villages of Czarnia, Dylewo, Jednorożec, Kadzidło, Lipniki, Łyse and Zbójna.
Kurpie (Polish pronunciation: [ˈkurpʲɛ]) is one of a number of ethnic regions in Poland, noted for its unique traditional customs, such as its own types...
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Kurpie Szlacheckie [ˈkurpjɛ ʂlaˈxɛt͡skʲɛ] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Troszyn, within Ostrołęka County, Masovian Voivodeship,...
Kurpie Dworskie [ˈkurpjɛ ˈdvɔrskʲɛ] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Troszyn, within Ostrołęka County, Masovian Voivodeship, in east-central...
resettlements saw an ethnic conflict between leaving Masurians and incoming Kurpie mainly on religious (Protestant–Catholic) grounds. In the Middle Ages, the...
separate Mazovian culinary regions are Kurpie and Łowicz, where traditional dishes survive to the present day. In Kurpie, traditional dishes are prepared with...
asynchronous palatal pronunciation of labial consonants (so-called softening). The Kurpie region has some of the most distinctive phonetic features due to isolation...
Plain Bielsko), varied in topography with small basins and river valleys. Kurpie lies on the west edge of the outwash plains. Sand, gravel, clay, moraine...
cities in the province. Ostrołęka is part of the ethnocultural region of Kurpie. Piaseczno is part of the Warsaw metropolitan area, and a former royal town...
legendary Polish hero, especially important to the inhabitants of the Polish Kurpie region. According to legend, he was born in Nowogród and died about 1734–1735...
and the type of dwellings. The Masovia woodsmen for example, known as Kurpie people, who lived in the forested region known in Poland as the White Wilderness...
Kurpiowska Forest, (Polish pronunciation: [ˈpuʂt͡ʂa kurˈpjɔfska], also Kurpie Forest) is the collective name of Poland's two wilderness areas: Puszcza...
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typical regional products include apples from Grójec and piwo kozicowe from Kurpie region (low-alcohol juniper beverage). Podlaskie cuisine has many Lithuanian...
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rogatywka; there are many regional styles, including those of Łowicz, Kurpie Zielone, Biłgoraj, Lachy Sądeckie, Kraków, Podhale, Szamotuły, and Kaszuby...
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