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== People  ==

The people of the Stolp area fall into several different ethnic or national identities. Many of the residents of the area were Germanic Lutherans, pushing eastward in an expanding migration out of Prussia. Much of the Slavic community of Pomerania, including Stolp, became assimilated into the German community and lost the slavic languages and cultures native to the region. Also powerful was the pressure of the Polish Catholic community from the East to assimilate the slavic tribes under a unified Slavic/Polish identity. A few communities in the Stolp area maintained their unique slavic cultural identity for several centuries by resisting assimilation and intermarriage, but most residents today now identify themselves first as members of the Polish nation.