Tutejszy

Tutejszy (Belarusian: тутэйшы, romanized: tutejšy; Polish: tutejszy, Polish pronunciation: [tuˈtɛjʂɨ]; Ukrainian: тутешній, romanized: tuteshniy; Lithuanian: tuteišiai; Latvian: tuteiši; Russian: туземный, romanized: tuzemnyj) was a self-identification of Eastern European rural populations, who did not have a clear national identity. The term means "from here", "local" or "natives".^[1][2] This was mostly in mixed-lingual Eastern European areas, including Belarus, Poland, Ukraine, Lithuania, and Latvia, in particular, in Polesia and Podlachia.^{[citation needed]} As a self-identification, it persisted in Lithuania’s Vilnius Region into the late 20th century. For example, in 1989, a poll of persons whose passports recorded their ethnicity as Polish revealed that 4% of them regarded themselves as tuteišiai, 10% as Lithuanians, and 84% as Poles.^[3]