Gottscheers

Gottscheers
Göttscheabarə
People dressed in traditional Gottscheer costume at a folk festival in Maria Saal, Austria, 2023
Regions with significant populations
Gottschee
Languages
Gottscheerish
Gottschee German peasants in an engraving from Johann Weikhard von Valvasor's work The Glory of the Duchy of Carniola, 17th century

Gottscheers (German: Gottscheer, Slovene: Kočevarji, kočevski Nemci) are the German settlers of the Kočevje region (a.k.a. Gottschee) of Slovenia, formerly Gottschee County. Until the Second World War, their main language of communication was Gottscheerish, a Bavarian dialect of German.[1]

  1. ^ Graupera, Jordi (2015). "Al final hi ha el bosc. Obituari d'un poble" [At the end there is the forest. Obituary from a people]. El món d'ahir (in Catalan). 1. Barcelona: 6–17. ISSN 2462-7062.

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