Carpathian Cultural Migration and Its Impact on the European Ethnogenesis of the Inhabitants of Podhale and the Tatra Mountains

Abstract

The article presents the existing concepts of the ethnogenesis of the Podhale Highlanders, which seems interesting in the context of the current fashion among Highlanders for their Wallachian origin. Until now, in the literature on the subject, the view of the European origin has not been so strongly discussed. The methods adopted by the researcher include the analysis of historical studies of 19th-century researchers, as well as contemporary ethnographic materials. The material is supplemented by a pilot survey on awareness of the bonds of the Highlanders of Podhale with the inhabitants of the Carpathians.