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The Polish Gorals also hold a particular reference for Pope John Paul II, who they consider as their own, even though Karol Wojtyła was born in Wadowice, Lesser Poland and was not a Goral himself. However, the Late Pope was always considered as "the son of the mountains" by the Gorals.
The seat of the Polish Highlanders Alliance of North America along Archer avenue just northeast of its intersection with Pulaski (picture taken before remodeling project has begun) The Polish Highlanders Alliance of America ( pl. Związek Podhalan w Ameryce Północnej ) was founded in 1929 in Chicago as an organization that unites all other ...
Silesian Gorals within Cieszyn Silesia: Brenna (1), Wisła (2), Jablunkov (3), Morávka (4) Silesian Gorals [a] are a subgroup of the Gorals living in the Silesian Beskids and Moravian-Silesian Beskids within the historical region of Cieszyn Silesia.
The term Goralenvolk was a neologism derived from the Polish word Górale (the Highlanders) commonly referring to the ethnic group living in the Beskid and Tatra mountains. In an attempt to make the Gorals collaborate with the SS , the Nazis proclaimed that they were of Germanic descent, and were thus worthy of Germanisation and separate ...
Goral, less frequently called Highlander or Highland Polish, is an ethnolect of the Lechitic group, more specifically of the Lesser Poland dialect group spoken by the Gorals. Its vocabulary was significantly influenced by many languages like Slovak, [ 2 ] Rusyn, Hungarian, Romanian and German, being common vocabulary of the Carpathian region. [ 4 ]
Podhale (Polish pronunciation: [pɔtˈxalɛ] ⓘ; lit. ' below the mountain pastures '), sometimes referred to as the Polish Highlands, is Poland's southernmost region. The Podhale is located in the foothills of the Tatra range of the Carpathian Mountains.
Upper Silesia (Górny Śląsk) and other historical lands of Poland against the background of modern administrative borders (names in Polish)Upper Silesia (Polish: Górny Śląsk [ˈɡurnɘ ˈɕlɔw̃sk] ⓘ ; Silesian: Gůrny Ślůnsk, Gōrny Ślōnsk; [1] Czech: Horní Slezsko; German: Oberschlesien [ˈoːbɐˌʃleːzi̯ən] ⓘ ; Silesian German: Oberschläsing; Latin: Silesia Superior) is ...
Two surviving members of the Polish resistance group who took part in the heist, at a plaque commemorating this event. Operation Góral (Polish: Akcja Góral) was an action carried out by the Polish anti-Nazi resistance organization Home Army (Armia Krajowa, or "AK"), which involved a heist of over a million US dollars' worth of currency being transported by Nazi German authorities on 12 ...