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thumb|Michał Pius Römer (who later adopted the [[Lithuanized name Mykolas Römeris) was one of the better-known members of the movement]]

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thumb|Michał Pius Römer (who later adopted the [[Lithuanized name Mykolas Römeris) was one of the better-known members of the movement]]

The Krajowcy (, Fellow Countrymen or Natives; , ) were a group of mainly Polish-speaking intellectuals from the Vilnius Region who, at the beginning of the 20th century, opposed the division of the former Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth into nation states along ethnic and linguistic lines. The movement was a reaction against growing nationalism in Poland, Lithuania and Belarus. The attempted to maintain their dual self-identification as Polish–Lithuanian (gente Lithuanus, natione Polonus) rather than just Polish or Lithuanian. The were scattered and few in number and as a result failed to organize a widescale social movement.

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