Taśtaks[a] is an ethnographic group of Polish people, and part of the bigger ethnographic group of the Greater Poland people. They inhabit the rural area around the Warta river near the Nowe Miasto nad Wartą, in the counties of Środa and Września, in the Greater Poland Voivodeship, Poland, notably including the villages of Czeszewo, Krzykosy, Lubrze, Orzechowo, Pięczkowo, and Witowo.[1][2][3]
Taśtacy (Polish) | |
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| Regions with significant populations | |
| Poland (Greater Poland Voivodeship) | |
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| Polish (Greater Poland dialect) | |
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| Roman Catholicism | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Poles, Greater Poland people |
Etymology
editThe name comes from the expression taśta, locally used by the population, while calling their horses during the horse riding.[1]
Notes
edit- ^ Polish: Taśtacy; Greater Poland dialect: Tośtacy, Taśtaki
References
edit- ^ a b Adam Fischer: Lud polski. Lviv, 1926, p. 12-13.
- ^ Ludwik Gomolec: Wielkopolskie grupy regionalne i lokalne nazwy ludności wiejskiej. In: Józef Burszta (editor): Kultura Ludowa Wielkopolski, vol. 2. Poznań: Wydawnictwo Poznańskie, 1964, p. 13, 39.
- ^ Program Wielkopolska Odnowa Wsi. Poznań, 2010, p. 13.
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