Gottscheers

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.