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The Poles (, ; singular masculine: Polak, singular feminine: Polka) are a nation and West Slavic ethnic group native to Poland. The population of Poles in Poland is estimated at 37,394,000 out of an overall population of 38,538,000 (based on the 2011 census). The preamble to the Constitution of the Republic of Poland defines the Polish nation as comprising all the citizens of Poland; ethnicity is a private matter of each citizen. Poland's population inhabits several historic regions such as Greater Poland, Lesser Poland, Mazovia, Silesia, Pomerania, Kuyavia, Warmia (Ermland), Masuria, and Podlachia.

Over a thousand years ago, the Polans – an influential tribe in " Wielkopolska", inhabiting the areas around Giecz, Gniezno, and Poznań – succeeded in uniting various Lechitic tribes under what became the Piast dynasty, thereby creating the Polish state.

A wide-ranging Polish diaspora (the Polonia) exists throughout Europe ( Germany, France, the United Kingdom, Russia, Belarus, Lithuania, Czech Republic, Latvia, Ukraine), the Americas (the United States, Brazil, Canada, Argentina) and in Australia. Today the largest urban concentration of Poles is the Katowice urban agglomeration (the Silesian Metropolis) of 2.7 million inhabitants.

Polish émigrés have included innumerable individuals in all walks of life who have enriched American society, not least Generals Casimir Pulaski, Tadeusz Kosciuszko and Włodzimierz Krzyżanowski (a first cousin to composer Frédéric Chopin), and National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski. Poland was also for centuries a refuge for many Jews from all over Europe; a large number emigrated in the twentieth century to Israel. Several prominent Israeli statesmen were born in Poland, including Israel's founder David Ben-Gurion, former President of Israel Shimon Peres, and Prime Ministers Yitzhak Shamir and Menachem Begin.

During Poland's thousand-year history, its people have contributed greatly to the fields of philosophy, mathematics, physics, chemistry, astronomy, biology, medicine, engineering, linguistics, the social sciences, law, literature, the visual arts, music, and film. As early as five centuries ago, Copernicus alone personified many of these achievements.

Poles (disambiguation)

Poles may refer to:

  • Poles, the people originating from or inhabiting Poland
  • Prospective Outlook on Long-term Energy Systems (POLES)
  • plural form of pole

Usage examples of "poles".

We had marked out the route up to this point with bamboo poles and flags at every 15 kilometres.

A situation has arisen in which each new day serves, not the Poles for the liberation of Warsaw, but the Hitlerites who are inhumanly shooting down the inhabitants of Warsaw.

Belgians, Frenchmen, Americans, Norwegians, Swedes, Rumanians, Poles, etc.

I have come to the conclusion that the fewer poles a tent has, the easier it is to set up, which seems quite natural.

Taking into consideration the fact that I went on ski the whole way and used two poles, it will be understood that the mits were strongly made.

They struck at it with their poles, and just as they expected -- it was hollow, and revealed the darkest abyss.

On approaching our camping-ground we had the sharpest descent, and here, reluctant as we might be, we found it wiser to put both our poles together and form a strong brake.

A recent example of this is the message you have sent quite properly to Uncle Joe about your conversations with the Poles, of which as yet I have heard nothing from you.

On the 18th the Americans reached the river Arno east of Pisa, and the next day entered the port of Leghorn, while the Poles, who had been pressing hard along the Adriatic shore, took Ancona.

About July 22 the Poles intercepted wireless messages from the German Fourth Panzer Army ordering a general withdrawal to the west of the Vistula.

The Home Army of the Poles consists of a few detachments which they incorrectly call divisions.

For them to send in all the quantities of machine-guns and ammunition required by the Poles for their heroic fight would involve only a flight of 100 miles.

This would not have been if the Soviet command had been informed before the beginning of the Warsaw action and if the Poles had maintained contact with it.

We hope that you will drop immediate supplies and munitions to the patriot Poles in Warsaw, or will you agree to help our planes in doing it very quickly?

That will be the best and most effective help for the Poles who are anti-Nazis.