Gorals

This article is about the Central European ethnic group. For the genus of ungulates, see Goral.
"Gorale" redirects here. For Polish place names, see Górale (disambiguation).
A Goral with bagpipes from the region of Podhale in Poland

The Gorals (Polish: Górale; Goral ethnolect: Górole; Slovak: Gorali; Cieszyn Silesian: Gorole), also anglicized as the Highlanders (in Poland, as the Polish Highlanders, a subethnic group of the Polish nation) and historically also as Vlachs,[1][dubious – discuss] are an ethnographic group primarily found in their traditional area of southern Poland, northern Slovakia,[2] and in the region of Cieszyn Silesia in the Czech Republic, where they are known as the Silesian Gorals.[3] There is also a significant Goral diaspora in the area of Bukovina in western Ukraine and in northern Romania, as well as in Chicago, the seat of the Polish Highlanders Alliance of North America.

  1. ^ Marek Kubica (2012). Górale, Wołosi, zbójnicy: historia górali od Pilska. Żywiec.
  2. ^ "Sociológ Ábel Ravasz: Ak štát nevie mapovať svoje menšiny, nevie im ani pomáhať". dunszt.sk (in Slovak). Retrieved 30 August 2023. Gorali, podobne ako Rusíni, žijú na oboch stranách štátnej poľsko-slovenskej hranice[...] Je to veľmi vzácna a zvláštna subskupina v tom, že jej jazyk pripomína skôr poľštinu s istými prvkami slovenčiny[...]
  3. ^ Sparks, Alan E. (2020). Into the Carpathians. Vol. 2. Boulder, Colorado: Rainy Day Publishing. ISBN 9780578705729.