Pomeranians
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- This article is about the Slavic tribe. For the dog breed, see Pomeranian.
Pomeranians (Pomorzanie) are a group of Slavic tribes living in historical region of Pomerania along the shore of Baltic Sea between Oder and Vistula rivers. Today this region is known as the Eastern Pomerania (or Gdansk Pomerania).
They used to speak dialects belonging to Lekhitic branch of West Slavic languages, the Pomeranian language.
Their direct descendants include:
- Kashubians, who speak the Kashubian language
- Slovincians
- Kociewiacy
- Borowiacy
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