Taśtaks[a] is an ethnographic group of Polish people, and part of the bigger ethnographic group of the Greater Poland people. They inhabit the rural area around the Warta river near the Nowe Miasto nad Wartą, in the counties of Środa and Września, in the Greater Poland Voivodeship, Poland, notably including the villages of Czeszewo, Krzykosy, Lubrze, Orzechowo, Pięczkowo, and Witowo.[1][2][3]

Taśtaks
Taśtacy (Polish)
Regions with significant populations
Poland (Greater Poland Voivodeship)
Languages
Polish (Greater Poland dialect)
Religion
Roman Catholicism
Related ethnic groups
Poles, Greater Poland people

Etymology

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The name comes from the expression taśta, locally used by the population, while calling their horses during the horse riding.[1]

Notes

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  1. ^ Polish: Taśtacy; Greater Poland dialect: Tośtacy, Taśtaki

References

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  1. ^ a b Adam Fischer: Lud polski. Lviv, 1926, p. 12-13.
  2. ^ Ludwik Gomolec: Wielkopolskie grupy regionalne i lokalne nazwy ludności wiejskiej. In: Józef Burszta (editor): Kultura Ludowa Wielkopolski, vol. 2. Poznań: Wydawnictwo Poznańskie, 1964, p. 13, 39.
  3. ^ Program Wielkopolska Odnowa Wsi. Poznań, 2010, p. 13.