Editing Lesser Poland (section)

== Etymology ==
[[Zygmunt Gloger]] in his work ''Historical geography of land of ancient Poland'' (''Geografia historyczna ziem dawnej Polski'') states that according to a Polish custom, whenever a new village was formed next to an older one, the name of the new entity was presented with an adjective ''little'' (or ''lesser''), while the old village was described as ''greater''. The same procedure was used in naming two Polish provinces{{snds}}the "older" one, the cradle of the Polish state, was called ''Greater Poland'', and its "younger sister", which became part of Poland a few years later, was called ''Lesser Poland''. The name Greater Poland (''Polonia Maior'') was for the first time used in 1242, by princes [[Bolesław the Pious|Boleslaw]] and [[Przemysł I of Greater Poland|Przemysław I]], who named themselves ''Duces Majoris Poloniae'' (''Princes of the Older Poland'').{{sfn|Gloger|1903|p=170}} Lesser Poland, or ''Polonia Minor'', appeared for the first time in historical documents in 1493, in the [[Statutes of Piotrków]], during the reign of King [[Jan Olbracht]],<ref>[http://www.polityka.pl/archive/do/registry/secure/showArticle?id=2004047 Jerzy Krasuski, Inne spojrzenie na początki Polski. Polityka weekly, 09-07-2005]{{cbignore}}</ref> to distinguish this province from Greater Poland (''Polonia Maior'').