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The polka is a Central European dance and also a genre of dance music familiar throughout Europe and the Americas. It originated in the middle of the 19th century in Bohemia. Polka is still a popular genre of folk music in many European countries and is performed by folk artists in Poland, Latvia, Lithuania, Czech Republic, Netherlands, Croatia, Slovenia, Germany, Hungary, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, Ukraine, Belarus, Russia and Slovakia. Local varieties of this dance are also found in the Nordic countries, United Kingdom, Republic of Ireland, Latin America (especially Mexico), and in the United States.
Although the dance didn't originate in Poland one theory is that its name is derived from the Czech polka, "Polish woman" (feminine form corresponding to Czech polák, a Pole). Another is that it comes from the Czech word půlka ("half"), referring to the short half-steps featuring in the dance. The word was widely introduced into the major European languages by the 1840s: its earliest recorded use in English was in America in 1825.
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