Podlashuks

Podlashuks

Пудляшуки
19th century painting "Ruthenians from Podlachia" by Jan Lewicki.
Regions with significant populations
Podlaskie and Lublin Voivodeships, Poland
Languages
Podlachian (sometimes classified as a subdialect of Ukrainian or Belarusian), Polish
Religion
Eastern Orthodox, Roman Catholicism
Related ethnic groups
Belarusians, Ukrainians, Podlachians, Poleshuks

Podlashuks, or Padlashuks (Podlachian: Пудляшуки, romanized: Pudliashuki; Belarusian: Падляшукі, romanized: Padlašuki; Ukrainian: Підляшани, romanized: Pidliashany; Polish: Podlaszucy), are an East Slavic ethnic group from Podlachia, a historical region in northeastern Poland which includes the Podlaskie and Lublin Voivodeships. Some Podlashuks identify as Belarusian, Ukrainian, or Polish, while others identify as a distinct ethnic group.¹

Podlashuks traditionally speak the Podlachian microlanguage, alternatively classified as the Podlachian subdialect of Northern Ukrainian.¹²

Podlashuks in northern Podlachia, located within Podlaskie Voivodeship, are mostly Eastern Orthodox, while those in southern Podlachia, in Lublin Voivodeship, are mostly Roman Catholic.¹