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Moravian Vlachs in the Czech Republic
Moravian Wallachia. Interesting group. Anybody here know much about them?
"In the eastern Czech Republic, within the province of Moravia and at the northern end of the Carpathian Mountains, there is a region inhabited by Vlachs, a population of Romanian origin who arrived there hundreds of years ago. The region is called Wallachia Moravia. Over time they merged into the local Czech and Slovak population, but you can still hear the distinctive Wallachian dialect, bearing several traces of its Romanian origins. The most obvious Wallachian symbol is the large, pointed black shepherd’s hat, which appears on village crests."
"Moravian Wallachia (Czech: Moravské Valašsko, or simply Valašsko; Romanian: Valahia Moravă) is a mountainous ethnoregion located in the easternmost part of Moravia in the Czech Republic, near the Slovak border, roughly centered on the cities Vsetín, Valašské Meziříčí and Rožnov pod Radhoštěm.[1] The name Wallachia used to be applied to all the highlands of Moravia and the neighboring Silesia, although in the 19th century a smaller area came to be defined as ethno-cultural Moravian Wallachia. The traditional dialect (rarely heard these days) represents a mixture of elements from the Czech and Slovak languages, and has a distinct lexicon of Romanian origin relating to the pastoral economy of the highlands. The name originated in the "Vlachs", an originally Romance-speaking community that migrated to Moravia." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moravian_Wallachia https://english.radio.cz/court-hear-...ispute-8592511
Districts of the Czech Republic that comprise Moravian Wallachia in full (red) and in part (orange)
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