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The name Polesia is from a Slavic root and loosely translates as "woodland". Polesie [p?'l???] is the Polish spelling; other names include Belarusian Pales’sye (????????) [pa'l?es?s?e], Ukrainian Polissya (???????), Russian Poles’ye (???????); Latin Polesia.

An inhabitant of Polesia is called Poleszuk in Polish; Palashuk in Belarusian, Polishchuk in the local Ukrainian dialect, and Poleshchuk in Russian.

Polesie is acknowledged by scholars as the region where the oldest elements of ethnography and culture of Eastern Slavs are preserved.^{[citation needed]}