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Göttscheabarə | |
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![]() People dressed in traditional Gottscheer costume at a folk festival in Maria Saal, Austria, 2023 | |
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Gottschee | |
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Gottscheerish |
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]