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Gorals
Ethnic group of Central Europe / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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).
The Gorals (Polish: Górale; Goral dialect: Górole; Slovak: Gorali; Cieszyn Silesian: Gorole), also known as the Highlanders (in Poland as the Polish Highlanders, a subethnic group of the Polish nation) and historically also as Vlachs[1], are an ethnographic subgroup 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.
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