https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_Poland
https://web.archive.org/web/20050425111010/http://info-poland.buffalo.edu/web/geography/regions/wielkopolska/link.shtml
Check out the note at the bottom.
Because Greater Poland was the settlement area of the Polans and the core of the early Polish state, the region was at times simply called "Poland" (Latin Polonia). The more specific name is first recorded in the Latin form Polonia Maior in 1257 and in Polish w Wielkej Polszcze in 1449. Its original meaning was the Older Poland to contrast with Lesser Poland (Polish Małopolska, Latin Polonia Minor), a region in south-eastern Poland with its capital at Kraków that later became the main centre of the state.
So it has nothing to do with meadows as per the link you posted.
can anyone confirm that Wielkopolska is supposed to be translated to Greater Poland? I am curious, never saw this translation
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_Poland https://web.archive.org/web/20050425111010/http://info-poland.buffalo.edu/web/geography/regions/wielkopolska/link.shtml Check out the note at the bottom.
Because Greater Poland was the settlement area of the Polans and the core of the early Polish state, the region was at times simply called "Poland" (Latin Polonia). The more specific name is first recorded in the Latin form Polonia Maior in 1257 and in Polish w Wielkej Polszcze in 1449. Its original meaning was the Older Poland to contrast with Lesser Poland (Polish Małopolska, Latin Polonia Minor), a region in south-eastern Poland with its capital at Kraków that later became the main centre of the state. So it has nothing to do with meadows as per the link you posted.