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List of Polish cheeses

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 19, 2026
Entity authorityQ3088369 ↗
Source-derived summary

This is a list of cheeses from Poland. The history of cheesemaking in Poland goes back to 5500 BC, when cheese similar to mozzarella was produced in Neolithic times in Kujawy (north-central Poland).

Poland is the 6th largest cheese producer in the world and has the 18th highest cheese consumption. Marek Kosmulski described over 600 types of Polish cheeses manufactured between 1948 and 2019.

Some Polish cheeses are protected by European Union law as regional products.

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“List of Polish cheeses” enters the record as wikimedia list article. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what List, Polish and cheeses can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1948, 2019—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around List, Polish and cheeses.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 19, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q3088369. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1948 and 2019.

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This entry incorporates text from “List of Polish cheeses” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.