Lemko

Also known as Lemks, Lemky

Lemkos (; ; ; ) are an ethnic group inhabiting the Lemko Region (; ) of Carpathian Rus', an ethnographic region in the Carpathian Mountains and foothills spanning Ukraine, Slovakia, and Poland.

Key facts

Ethnic group.group: Lemkos
Ethnic group.image: 250px
Ethnic group.caption: Members of the folk group Osławianie from Mokre in original Lemko highlander folk costumes
Ethnic group.population: 75,228700,000 (ancestry)
Ethnic group.pop1: 63,556 (2021)100,000 (ancestry)
Ethnic group.pop2: 11,000 (2011)100,000 (ancestry)
Ethnic group.pop3: 672 (census 2001) 350,000 (ancestry)
Ethnic group.region4: North America
Ethnic group.pop4: 150,000 (ancestry)
Ethnic group.region5: Post-Yugoslavia states
Ethnic group.pop5: 50,000 (ancestry)
Ethnic group.languages: Rusyn, Slovak, Polish, Ukrainian (Lemko dialect)
Ethnic group.flag: 200px|border
Ethnic group.flag_caption: Flag of Polish Lemkos
Ethnic group.rels: Predominantly Ukrainian Greek Catholic or Eastern Orthodox, with Roman Catholic minorities
Ethnic group.related: Ukrainians, Boykos, Hutsuls, Rusyns

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Wikidata facts

Instance of: ethnic group
Subclass of: Rusyns
Languages spoken: Lemko
Country: Canada

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indigenous to: Lemkivshchyna
Commons category: Lemkos
topic's main category: Category:Lemkos
on focus list of Wikimedia project: WikiProject Ukraine
described by source: Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary

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Article · Italiano

I lemchi (in ucraino: лeмки, in ruteno: Лeмкы, traslitterato in lemky) o come si definiscono loro stessi rusyny o rusnaky (in ucraino: руснаки, in ruteno: Руснакы, traslitterato rusnaky) sono una popolazione e gruppo etno-linguistico di origine ucraina diffusa nelle aree carpatiche della Polonia.

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