Wilamowiczanie or Wilamowianie (v, Vilamovian: Wymysiöejen) are an ethnic group of Poles

Poles

thumb|right|180px|The state flag of [[Poland]] as used by Polish government and diplomatic authoritiesThe Polish people, or Poles , are a nation indigenous to Poland. They are united by the Polish language, which belongs to the historical Lechitic subgroup of West Slavic languages of Central Europe...

 living in the town of Wilamowice

Wilamowice

Wilamowice is a small town in southern Poland, situated in the Bielsko County, Silesian Voivodeship . The endangered language of Wymysorys is spoken here by about 70 native speakers, the majority of them elderly...

 near Bielsko-Biała

Bielsko-Biała

-Economy and Industry:Nowadays Bielsko-Biała is one of the best-developed parts of Poland. It was ranked 2nd best city for business in that country by Forbes. About 5% of people are unemployed . Bielsko-Biała is famous for its textile, machine-building, and especially automotive industry...

, who speaks the Vilamovian language, has their own national costume

National costume

Folk costume expresses an identity through costume which usually to a geographic area or a period of time in history, but can also indicate social, marital and/or religious status...

 and tradition

Tradition

A tradition is a ritual, belief or object passed down within a society, still maintained in the present, with origins in the past. Common examples include holidays or impractical but socially meaningful clothes , but the idea has also been applied to social norms such as greetings...

s. The name Wilamowiczanie is for inhabitants of Wilamowice who identify themself with the cultural society of Wilamowice. Just the inhabitant is called wilamowiczanin.

Overall population of the Wilamowiczanie declined during II World War.

Known Wilamowiczanie

• Józef Bilczewski
  Józef Bilczewski
  St. Jozef Bilczewski was a Catholic archbishop of the city of Lviv, Ukraine, a professor of theology at the Lviv University and a rector of that school...
  
  
• Florian Biesik
  Florian Biesik
  Florian Biesik created a literary standard for Vilamovian, trying to prove it did not derive from German origin, but possibly Dutch, Frisian, or Anglo-Saxon....
  
  
• Józef Gara
  Józef Gara
  Józef Gara is a retired miner who speaks an endangered language - Vilamovian, which has only 70 native speakers now, he also created the Vilamovian alphabet. He is an author of poems in that language too. In 2003 he published Zbiór wierszy oraz słownik języka wilamowskiego...
  
  
• Jadwiga Bilczewska-Stanecka
• Jan Gawiński
  Jan Gawinski
  Jan z Wielomowic Gawiński, born about 1622, died probably in 1684, was a Polish baroque poet.Gawiński is counted into the classical generation of Sarmatians – the generation of John III Sobieski, though his nobility is not certain. He descended likely from town Wilamowice near Cracow. He studied in...
  
  
• Herman Mojmir
• Jolanta Danek

Literature

• Barbara Bazielich, Strój wilamowicki (Atlas polskich strojów ludowych. Cz. 5, Małopolska ; Z. 15), Wrocław: Polskie Towarzystwo Ludoznawcze, 2001, ISBN 83-87266-65-5