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Forest Germans: a forgotten ethnic group in the contemporary landscape of the Polish Carpathians

Miscellanea Geographica
Volume 29 (2025): Issue 3 (July 2025)
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Open Access
|May 2025

Figures & Tables

Figure 1.

Borders and area of Forest Germany – areas included in the territory of Forest Germany according to the number of mentions in historical sources (17th–20th centuries)Source: Own elaboration
Borders and area of Forest Germany – areas included in the territory of Forest Germany according to the number of mentions in historical sources (17th–20th centuries)Source: Own elaboration

Figure 2.

Borders and area of Forest Germany – areas included in the territory of Forest Germany according to the number of mentions in historical sources (17th–20th centuries), and with at least three mentions in historical sourcesSource: Own elaboration
Borders and area of Forest Germany – areas included in the territory of Forest Germany according to the number of mentions in historical sources (17th–20th centuries), and with at least three mentions in historical sourcesSource: Own elaboration

Figure 3.

Approximate borders and area of Forest GermanySource: Own elaboration
Approximate borders and area of Forest GermanySource: Own elaboration

Figure 4.

Distribution of selected Forest German toponyms of German or Polish origin that have been distorted under German influence or which once contained an element alluding to German settlersSource: Own elaboration
Distribution of selected Forest German toponyms of German or Polish origin that have been distorted under German influence or which once contained an element alluding to German settlersSource: Own elaboration

Figure 5.

Surnames of the oldest families from Ołpiny (present in the village before 1950) in 2023, according to their appearance over the centuries and their ethnic originSource: Own elaboration
Surnames of the oldest families from Ołpiny (present in the village before 1950) in 2023, according to their appearance over the centuries and their ethnic originSource: Own elaboration
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/mgrsd-2025-0010 | Journal eISSN: 2084-6118 | Journal ISSN: 0867-6046
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Language: English
Page range: 140 - 149
Submitted on: Oct 28, 2024
Accepted on: Jan 23, 2025
Published on: May 17, 2025
Published by: University of Warsaw
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 4 issues per year
Keywords:
Forest Germans,
Germans,
Carpathians,
ethnic group,
Poland
Related subjects:
Geosciences,
Geography,
Geosciences, other

© 2025 Piotr Kołpak, Marta Raczyńska-Kruk, Marcin Wojciech Solarz, Weronika Wnuk-Ciastek, published by University of Warsaw
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

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