What is Poles: Definition and 240 Discussions

The Poles (Polish: Polacy, pronounced [pɔˈlat͡sɨ]; singular masculine: Polak, singular feminine: Polka), also referred to as the Polish people, are a West Slavic ethnic group and a nation that shares a common history, culture, the Polish language and is identified with the country of Poland in Central Europe.
The population of self-declared Poles in Poland is estimated at 37,394,000 out of an overall population of 38,538,000 (based on the 2011 census), of whom 36,522,000 declared Polish alone. A wide-ranging Polish diaspora (the Polonia) exists throughout Europe, the Americas, and in Australasia. Today, the largest urban concentrations of Poles are within the Warsaw and Silesian metropolitan areas.
Ethnic Poles are considered to be the descendants of the ancient West Slavic Lechites and other tribes that inhabited the Polish territories during the late antiquity period. Poland's recorded history dates back over a thousand years to c. 930–960 AD, when the Western Polans – an influential tribe in the Greater Poland region – united various Lechitic clans under what became the Piast dynasty, thus creating the first Polish state. The subsequent Christianization of Poland by the Catholic Church, in 966 CE, marked Poland's advent to the community of Western Christendom. However, throughout its existence, the Polish state followed a tolerant policy towards minorities resulting in numerous ethnic and religious identities of the Poles, such as Polish Jews.
Poles have made important contributions to the world in every major field of human endeavor, among them Copernicus, Marie Curie, Joseph Conrad, Fryderyk Chopin and Pope John Paul II. Notable Polish émigrés – many of them forced from their homeland by historic vicissitudes – have included physicist Joseph Rotblat, mathematician Stanisław Ulam, pianist Arthur Rubinstein, actresses Helena Modjeska and Pola Negri, military leaders Tadeusz Kościuszko and Casimir Pulaski, U.S. National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski, politician Rosa Luxemburg, painter Tamara de Lempicka, filmmakers Samuel Goldwyn and the Warner Brothers, cartoonist Max Fleischer, and cosmeticians Helena Rubinstein and Max Factor.

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  1. B

    Why are the magnetic poles of a magnet are located somewhere within the magnet?

    Bar magnet... why are the magnetic poles of a magnet are located somewhere within the magnet,not at the ends?
  2. G

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  3. M

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  4. R

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  5. C

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  6. perplexabot

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  7. V

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  8. S

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  9. J

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  10. L

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  11. S

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  12. J

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  13. K

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  14. R

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  15. M

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  16. Physicist50

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  17. B

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  18. I

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  19. D

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  20. D

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  21. M

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  22. R

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  23. E

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  24. D

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  25. G

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  26. M

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  27. K

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  28. D

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  29. T

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  31. S

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  32. S

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  33. R

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  34. F

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  35. H

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  36. R

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  37. E

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  38. B

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  39. Vorde

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  40. D

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  41. Q

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  42. R

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  43. D

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  44. L

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  45. D

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  46. P

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  47. R

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  48. Dotini

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  49. H

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  50. D

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