Names of Poland
Ethnonyms for the Poles (people) and Poland (their country) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The ethnonyms for the Poles (people)[1] and Poland (their country)[2] include endonyms (the way Polish people refer to themselves and their country) and exonyms (the way other peoples refer to the Poles and their country). Endonyms and most exonyms for Poles and Poland derive from the name of the West Slavic tribe of Polans (Polanie), while in some languages the exonyms for Poland to derive from the name of another tribe – the Lendians (Lędzianie).