Kashubian jamboree in Łeba in 2005 – banner showing the Kashubian name of Kartuzy County

Labuda was born in Neuhütte / Karthaus, West Prussia, Germany ( now Nowa Huta, Pomeranian Voivodeship, Kartuzy, Poland ), into a Kashubian family.

Kashubian strawberry ( truskawka kaszubska or kaszëbskô malëna ) is produced in Kartuzy, Kościerzyna and Bytów counties and in the municipalities of Przywidz, Wejherowo, Luzino, Szemud, Linia, Łęczyce and Cewice in Kashubia.

Previously in Gdańsk Voivodeship from 1975 to 1998, Kartuzy since 1999 is the capital of Kartuzy County in Pomeranian Voivodeship since 1999.

Kartuzy County (, ) is a unit of territorial administration and local government ( powiat ) in Pomeranian Voivodeship, northern Poland.

Kartuzy County on a map of the counties of Pomeranian Voivodeship

* Drozdowo, Kartuzy County in Pomeranian Voivodeship ( north Poland )

The traditional capital was Kartuzy ( Kartuzë ).

* Kartuzy County ( Kartësczi kréz ): Town of Kartuzy ( Kartuzë ) with Gmina Kartuzy, Town of Żukowo ( Żukòwò ) with Gmina Żukowo, Gmina Chmielno ( Chmielno ), Gmina Przodkowo ( Przedkòwò ), Gmina Sulęczyno ( Sëlëczëno ), Gmina Sierakowice ( Sërakòjce ), Gmina Somonino ( Somònino ), Gmina Stężyca ( Stãżëca )

* Born: Anja Pärson, Swedish women's alpine skiing champion, in Umeå ; and Wojciech Kasperski, Polish filmmaker, in Kartuzy

The town has also set up a bust to honor Dr. Aleksander Majkowski, author of The Life and Adventures of Remus, who practiced medicine in Kartuzy for a time and is buried here.

Kartuzy is twinned with:

Its administrative seat and largest town is Kartuzy, which lies west of the regional capital Gdańsk.

The only other town in the county is Żukowo, lying east of Kartuzy.

As of 2006 its total population is 109, 311, out of which the population of Kartuzy is 15, 263, that of Żukowo is 6, 302, and the rural population is 87, 746.

Kartuzy County is bordered by Wejherowo County to the north, the city of Gdynia to the north-east, the city of Gdańsk and Gdańsk County to the east, Kościerzyna County to the south, Bytów County to the west, and Lębork County to the north-west.

Kościerzyna County is bordered by Kartuzy County to the north, Gdańsk County and Starogard County to the east, Chojnice County to the south, and Bytów County to the west.

Gdańsk County is bordered by the city of Gdańsk to the north, Nowy Dwór Gdański County to the east, Malbork County to the south-east, Tczew County and Starogard County to the south, and Kościerzyna County and Kartuzy County to the west.

The Łeba () is a river in Middle Pomerania, Poland, that originates near the village of Borzestowo west of Kartuzy, passes through Łebsko Lake and empties into the Baltic Sea.

* Kartuzy, a town in Poland, known in German as Karthaus

Kartuzy was established about 1380 as a monastery for Carthusian monks descending from Prague in the Kingdom of Bohemia, after whom it received its name.

The old ( now-closed ) railway track from Wrzeszcz ( Langfuhr ) to Kartuzy ( Karthaus ) goes through the quarter, with Gdańsk Brętowo ( PKP station ) being the former station.

It includes the area around Kartuska street ( the exit from Gdańsk for Kartuzy ).

Following a lingering battle with myelodysplasia, Żurakowski died at Kartuzy Lodge on 9 February 2004.

* Baltic Sea is used in English ; in the Baltic languages Latvian ( Baltijas jūra ) and Lithuanian ( Baltijos jūra ); in Latin ( Mare Balticum ) and the Romance languages French ( Mer Baltique ), Italian ( Mar Baltico ), Portuguese ( Mar Báltico ), Romanian ( Marea Baltică ) and Spanish ( Mar Báltico ); in Greek ( Βαλτική Θάλασσα ); in Albanian ( Deti Balltik ); in the Slavic languages Polish ( Morze Bałtyckie or Bałtyk ), Czech ( Baltské moře or Balt ), Croatian ( Baltičko more ), Slovenian ( Baltsko morje ), Bulgarian ( Baltijsko More ( Балтийско море ), Kashubian ( Bôłt ), Macedonian ( Балтичко Море / Baltičko More ), Ukrainian ( Балтійське море (" Baltijs ' ke More "), Belarusian ( Балтыйскае мора (" Baltyjskaje Mora "), Russian ( Балтийское море (" Baltiyskoye Morye ") and Serbian ( Балтичко море / Baltičko more ); in the Hungarian language ( Balti-tenger ); and also in Basque ( Itsaso Baltikoa )

Friedrich Lorentz ( the author of Pomeranian Grammar and The History of Pomeranian / Kashubian Language ) referred in his works to Ramułt ’ s dictionary.

Some Polish linguists ridiculed attempts to create a standardized form of Kashubian / Pomeranian, and tried to discredit those Kashubian authors who worked on it.

Slovincian is classified either as a language ( first by Friedrich Lorentz, 1902 / 3 ), or as a Kashubian dialect ( first by Lorentz, after 1903 ) or variant, with Kashubian itself being classified either as a language or a Polish dialect.

Kościerzyna ( Kashubian / Pomeranian: Kòscérzëna, former ) is a town in Kashubia in Gdańsk Pomerania region, northern Poland, with some 24, 000 inhabitants.

Chojnice ( Kashubian / Pomeranian: Chònice, ) is a town in northern Poland with 39 670 inhabitants ( 2004 ), near famous Tuchola Forest, Lake Charzykowskie and many other water reservoirs.

Starogard Gdański ( meaning approximately " the old stronghold "; Kashubian / Pomeranian: Starogarda ; ) is a town in Eastern Pomerania in northwestern Poland with 48, 328 inhabitants ( 2004 ).

Rumia ( Kashubian / Pomeranian: Rëmiô, ) is a city in the Eastern Pomerania region of north-western Poland, with some 45, 000 inhabitants.

Police (; Kashubian / Pomeranian: Pòlice ) is a town in the West Pomeranian Voivodeship, northwestern Poland.

Białogard (; Kashubian / Pomeranian: Biôłogard ) is a town in Middle Pomerania, northwestern Poland with 24, 399 inhabitants ( 2004 ).

Sławno ( Kashubian / Pomeranian: Słôwno, ), is a town on the Wieprza river in Middle Pomerania region, north-western Poland, with 13, 322 inhabitants ( 2006 ).

Miastko ( Kashubian / Pomeranian: Miastkò ; ), is a town in the Middle Pomerania region of northwestern Poland.

Władysławowo ( Kashubian / Pomeranian: Wiôlgô Wies, ) is a town on the south coast of the Baltic Sea in the Kashubia in Eastern Pomerania Pomerania region, northern Poland, with 15, 015 ( 2009 ) inhabitants.

Łeba ( Kashubian / Pomeranian: Leba ; ) is a town in the Pomeranian Voivodeship of Poland.

Swietopelk II, also Zwantepolc II or Swantopolk II, ( 1190 / 1200 – 11 January 1266 ), sometimes known as the Great (; Kashubian: Swiãtopôłk II Wiôldżi ), was Duke of Pomerelia-Gdańsk from 1215 until his death.

In 2005 / 06 there were 49, 200 students in schools for national minorities, most of them in German, Kashubian, Ukrainian and Belarusian.

Gdańsk ( or ; ; Kashubian: Gduńsk, ) is a Polish city on the Baltic coast, the capital of the Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland's principal seaport and the center of the country's fourth-largest metropolitan area.

* 1253: First known mention of the name " Gdynia ", as a Pomeranian ( Kashubian ) fishing village.

Similarly the Slovincian and Kashubian languages are grouped as the Pomeranian language, with Slovincian being either a closely related language or a Kashubian dialect.

file: Stefan_Ramult-Pomeranian_Dictionary. png | Page of Stefan Ramult Pomeranian ( Kashubian language ) Dictionary 1893

* Stefan Ramułt, Słownik języka pomorskiego, czyli kaszubskiego, Kraków, 1893 i. e. " Dictionary of the Pomeranian ( Seacoast ) or Kashubian language " ( Kraków, 1893 )

Stefan Ramułt | Stefan Ramułt's Dictionary of the Pomeranian ( Kashubian ) language, published in Kraków, 1893.

It moved to Kashubian and Slovincian dialects through Low German, and appeared in Pomeranian dictionaries as ceza meaning “ flounder and perch fishing net ”.

Today, the Pomeranian language is often identified with the Kashubian language.

After Slovincian and all the Pomeranian dialects ( except Kashubian ) became extinct, the “ Kashubian language ” is the term most often used in relation to the language spoken by the Pomeranians.

“ As Kashubians are the direct descendants of Pomeranians, it is right to use the words Pomeranian and Kashubian as synonyms.

The Pomeranian language, and its only surviving form, Kashubian, traditionally have not been recognized by the majority of Polish linguists, and have been treated in Poland as " the most distinct dialect of Polish ".

Pomeranian Voivodeship, or Pomerania Province ( in Polish województwo pomorskie, in Kashubian Pòmòrsczé wòjewództwò ), is a voivodeship, or province, in north-central Poland.

* Slovincian, extinct since the early 20th century, a language formerly spoken in parts of Pomerania, sometimes identified with Kashubian as a single Pomeranian language ( which may also be considered a dialect of Polish );

It was close to Pomeranian and Kashubian, and attested only in a handful of manuscripts, dictionaries and various writings from the 17th and 18th centuries.

Slovincian and Kashubian are both classified as Pomeranian.