Podhale, the Glossary
Podhale, sometimes referred to as the Polish Highlands, is Poland's southernmost region.[1]
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- Geography of Lesser Poland Voivodeship
Adriatic Sea
The Adriatic Sea is a body of water separating the Italian Peninsula from the Balkan Peninsula.
Carpathian Mountains
The Carpathian Mountains or Carpathians are a range of mountains forming an arc across Central Europe and Southeast Europe.
See Podhale and Carpathian Mountains
Czorsztyn
Czorsztyn (German: Schorstin) is a village in Poland, in Lesser Poland Voivodeship, Nowy Targ County.
Dialects of Polish
Polish dialects are regional vernacular varieties of the Polish language, and often show developments starting from an earlier stage of the language, often Old Polish or Middle Polish, namely the development of the so-called "pitched" or "slanted" vowels (Polish samogłoski pochylone).
See Podhale and Dialects of Polish
Dunajec
The Dunajec (Goral dialects: Dónajec) is a river running through northeastern Slovakia and southern Poland.
Dunajec River Gorge
The Dunajec River Gorge (Przełom Dunajca; Prielom Dunajca; Dohnst-Schlucht) runs through the Pieniny Mountains in the south of Poland and the north of Slovakia (as Dunajec is the border river between the two countries in the area). Podhale and Dunajec River Gorge are geography of Lesser Poland Voivodeship.
See Podhale and Dunajec River Gorge
Folk costumes of Podhale
Folk costumes from Podhale region - costumes wear by Highlanders (Gorals) in Polish area of the Tatra Mountains, Podhale region.
See Podhale and Folk costumes of Podhale
Folklore
Folklore is the body of expressive culture shared by a particular group of people, culture or subculture.
Gorals
The Gorals (Górale; Goral ethnolect: Górole; 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, are an ethnographic subgroup primarily found in their traditional area of southern Poland, northern Slovakia, and in the region of Cieszyn Silesia in the Czech Republic, where they are known as the Silesian Gorals.
Gorce Mountains
The Gorce Mountains (Gorce) are part of the Western Beskids mountain range spreading across southernmost Poland.
See Podhale and Gorce Mountains
Lesser Poland
Lesser Poland, often known by its Polish name Małopolska (Polonia Minor), is a historical region situated in southern and south-eastern Poland.
Ludźmierz
Ludźmierz is a village in Poland in the Lesser Poland voivodeship, in the county of Nowy Targ.
Morskie Oko
Morskie Oko, or Eye of the Sea in English, is the largest and fourth-deepest lake in the Tatra Mountains, in southern Poland.
Mountain resort
A mountain resort is a place to holiday or vacation located in an elevated and typically at least relatively isolated area.
See Podhale and Mountain resort
Niedzica
Niedzica (Nedeca, Nedec) is a resort village in Nowy Targ County of Lesser Poland province, Poland, located on the banks of Lake Czorsztyn.
Niedzica Castle
Niedzica Castle, also known as Dunajec Castle (Castrum de Dunajecz, Nedec Váralja / Nedec-Vár, Sub-Arx Unterschloss, Nedecký hrad), is located in the southernmost part of Poland in Niedzica (Nowy Targ County in Lesser Poland).
See Podhale and Niedzica Castle
Nowy Targ
Nowy Targ (Officially: Royal Free city of Nowy Targ, Yiddish: Naymark, Goral dialect: Miasto) is a town in southern Poland, in the Lesser Poland Voivodeship.
Oscypek
Oscypek (Polish plural: oscypki), rarely Oszczypek, is a smoked cheese made of salted sheep milk exclusively in the Tatra Mountains region of Poland.
Pieniny
The Pieniny (sometimes also the PieninsSzafer, Władysław. 2013. The Vegetation of Poland: International Series of Monographs in Pure and Applied Biology. Warsaw: Pergamon Press, pp. 156, 388. or the Pienin Mountains, Pieninek) is a mountain range in the south of Poland and the north of Slovakia.
Poland
Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe.
Polish language
Polish (język polski,, polszczyzna or simply polski) is a West Slavic language of the Lechitic group within the Indo-European language family written in the Latin script.
See Podhale and Polish language
Sanctuary of Our Lady of Ludźmierz
The Sanctuary of Our Lady of Ludźmierz in Ludźmierz, Poland is home to Our Lady of Ludźmierz, known as the Shepherdess of Podhale or in Polish Gaździna Podhala.
See Podhale and Sanctuary of Our Lady of Ludźmierz
Szczawnica
Szczawnica (Щавниця) is a resort town in Nowy Targ County in Lesser Poland Voivodeship, in southern Poland.
Tatra Mountains
The Tatra Mountains, Tatras (Tatry either in Slovak or in Polish - plurale tantum), are a series of mountains within the Western Carpathians that form a natural border between Slovakia and Poland.
See Podhale and Tatra Mountains
Tatra Shepherd Dog
The Tatra Shepherd Dog (italic) is a Polish breed of large flock guardian dog originating in the Tatra Mountains of the Podhale region of southern Poland.
See Podhale and Tatra Shepherd Dog
Wallachia
Wallachia or Walachia (lit,; Old Romanian: Țeara Rumânească, Romanian Cyrillic alphabet: Цѣра Рꙋмѫнѣскъ) is a historical and geographical region of modern-day Romania. It is situated north of the Lower Danube and south of the Southern Carpathians. Wallachia was traditionally divided into two sections, Muntenia (Greater Wallachia) and Oltenia (Lesser Wallachia).
Zakopane
Zakopane (Podhale Goral: Zokopane) is a town in the south of Poland, in the southern part of the Podhale region at the foot of the Tatra Mountains.
Zakopane Style
Zakopane Style (or Witkiewicz Style) is an art style, most visible in architecture, but also found in furniture and related objects, inspired by the regional art of Poland's highland regions, most notably Podhale.
See Podhale and Zakopane Style
See also
Geography of Lesser Poland Voivodeship
- Dunajec River Gorge
- Kraków-Częstochowa Upland
- Niepołomice Forest
- Old-Polish Industrial Region
- Podhale
- Sandomierz Basin
- Sandomierz Forest
- Trzy Korony
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Podhale
Also known as Polish highlands.