Borderlands Poles

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The Borderlands Poles, or Borderlanders (Polish: Kresowiacy), and also known as the Borderlands groups (Polish: grupy kresowe), is an umbrella term for the ethnographic groups of Polish people from the Eastern Borderlands, an area now to the east of Poland, within modern-day Belarus, Lithuania, Ukraine. They are descended from Polonized local inhabitants, i.e. Lithuanians, Belarusians and Ukrainians, and settlers that had Masovian, and to a lesser extend, Lesser Poland, origin. The groups are not directly connected, having different origins, and developing separately. However, they are categorized together, due to the shared factor of devolving on the eastern borderlands of Polish population, influenced by the other ethnic groups located to the east. In the aftermath of World War II, they were displaced from the Soviet Union to Poland, mostly in the first repatriation of 1944–1946, and later in the second repatriation of 1955–1959. As such, they, and their descendants, now live across Poland. Such people are also known as the Bug River Poles (Polish: Zabużanie).