Kurpie
Sign in to saveAlso known as Puszczyki, Puszczany, Puszczaki
thumb|300px|A Kurpie house. Note the thatched roof. Kurpie () 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.
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Encyclopedic overview
23 sectionsContents
- The name Kurpie
- The forests
- Selective chronology
- Kurpie traditions
- A Kurpie house
- Traditional costume
- Folk dance
- Kurpie Palm Sunday
- Easter
- Cut-outs
- Smigus-Dingus
- God’s day celebration
- Harvest celebration
- Winter celebration
- Christmas
- New Years celebration
- Kadzidlańskie Wedding
- Kurpie music
- Kurpie today
- Further reading
- Gallery
- See also
- References
thumb|300px|A Kurpie house. Note the thatched roof. Kurpie () 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).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kurpie” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.