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The Lublin Region history
The area between the Vistula and the Bug, making today’s Lublin Region, has since the Middle Ages been a place of coexistence of many cultures, confessions, languages and nationalities. Each of the religious and national groups has left here traces of its stay, more or less distinct and visible to modern inhabitants, yet making a specific, multicoloured cultural landscape.
It has been a place of contact for Eastern and Western Slavs, for the Orthodox and Catholic religion. Apart from those two Christian confessions, the religious map of the region included followers of Judaism, and in more recent times Muslims, Protestants, Greek Catholics (Uniates) and in the 20tb c. also Old Catholics.
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Lublin travel guide
Lublin – the capital of the region, the largest city east of the Vistula, a historic centre worth visiting. Read the rest of this page »
The diversity of Christianity can be seen in the Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches, the 18th c. evangelical church and the less visible sacral buildings of the Mariavites, Polish Catholics, Adventists and other denominations stemming from Protestantism. This is an evidence of a more and less distant past, when the city population included Ruthenians, Armenians, Turks, Czechs, Germans, Italians, the French, the Scots, the Dutch, or the Swiss, as well as the result of the dynamic 20th c. changes within Catholicism.
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