Originally Posted by
rothaer
The County Glatz is interesting. It most of the time belonged to Bohemia, when the Prussians besides the biggest part od Silesia took it too in 1741. Since then it's viewed as a part of Silesia. But nevertheless the inhabitants od the County Glatz had an own, somewhat seperate from the Silesian mainstream, identity. The county is surrounded 3/4 by mountain ridges and has just one opening towards the rest of Silesia.
I now noted that it has an elevated genetic similarity with pops towards the Balkans. Did here some Vlach-like people come along the Carpathians, Beskids and Sudets? Vlachs in Moravia are in the records of history...