Podolyans (, ) are a Ukrainian ethnographic group who populate the region of
Podolia
Podolia or Podillia is a historic region in Eastern Europe located in the west-central and southwestern parts of Ukraine and northeastern Moldova (i.e. northern Transnistria).
Podolia is bordered by the Dniester River and Boh River. It features ...
.
In the 19th century,
Gustave Le Bon
Charles-Marie Gustave Le Bon (7 May 1841 – 13 December 1931) was a leading French polymath whose areas of interest included anthropology, psychology, sociology, medicine, invention, and physics. He is best known for his 1895 work '' The Crowd: ...
has found them to extend as far West as
Tatra Mountains, named "Podolians".
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Gallery
File:National costum from Podolya.JPG, National costume of Podolia (Medzhybizh
Medzhybizh (; ; ; ), formerly Mezhybozhe, is a Populated places in Ukraine#Rural settlements, rural settlement in Khmelnytskyi Oblast, western Ukraine. It is located in Khmelnytskyi Raion, 25 kilometres from Khmelnytskyi, Ukraine, Khmelnytskyi o ...
)
File:Podolany 1864. J. Kossak. Z jarmaky.jpg, Podolyans from the fair, painting by Juliusz Kossak
Juliusz Fortunat Kossak (15 December 1824 – 3 February 1899) was a Polish historical painter and master illustrator who specialized in battle scenes, military portraits and horses. He was the progenitor of an artistic family that spanned fou ...
, 1864
File:Podolany . J. Kossak. Poludenok 1862.jpg, Podolyans, a lunch, painting by Juliusz Kossak
Juliusz Fortunat Kossak (15 December 1824 – 3 February 1899) was a Polish historical painter and master illustrator who specialized in battle scenes, military portraits and horses. He was the progenitor of an artistic family that spanned fou ...
, 1862
File:Girl from Podolye by V.Tropinin (b. 1821, Kursk).jpg, A lady from Podolia, painting by Vasily Tropinin
Vasily Andreevich Tropinin (; – ) was a Russian Romanticism, Romantic painter. Much of his life was spent as a serf, not attaining freedom until he was more than forty years old. Three of his more important works are a portrait of Alexand ...
File:MaszkowskiJan.WKarczmieNaPodolu.jpg, In tavern (korchma) in Podolia, painting by Jan Maszkowski
File:J. H. 8 Podolians.jpg, Podolians from Chortkiv
Chortkiv (, ; ; ) is a List of cities in Ukraine, city in Chortkiv Raion, Ternopil Oblast, western Ukraine. It is the administrative center of Chortkiv Raion, housing the district's local administration buildings. Chortkiv hosts the administratio ...
county
File:Подільські писанки.jpg, Pysanka
The tradition of egg decoration in Slavic cultures originated in pagan times,Kazimierz Moszyński – Kultura ludowa Słowian, Kraków 1929Anna Zadrożyńska – Powtarzać czas początku, Warsaw 1985, and was transformed by the process of ...
from Podolia
File:J. H. 9 Podolians.jpg, Podolians from Skalat, near Ternopil
Ternopil, known until 1944 mostly as Tarnopol, is a city in western Ukraine, located on the banks of the Seret River. Ternopil is one of the major cities of Western Ukraine and the historical regions of Galicia and Podolia. The populatio ...
File:Rusini1836.jpg, Rusyns of Carpathians, Halych, and Podolia
See also
* Podolian dialect
* Dnipryans
* Volynians
References
External links
Old photos of villages
Newspaper "Podolyanyn".
Podolia
Ethnic groups in Ukraine
Ukrainian people
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