Meanings
- A historical region in what is now central Slovakia, formerly inhabited by Carpathian Germans.
In 1930, 41,255 inhabitants of the Hauerland were of German origin.
1958, Theodor Schieder, “Documents on the Expulsion of the Germans from Eastern-Central-Europe: The expulsion of the German population from Czechoslovakia”, in The Expulsion of the German Population from Czechoslovakia: A Selection and Translation from Dokumentation Der Vertreibung Der Deutschen Aus Ost-Mitteleuropa, Band IV, 1 and IV, 2, published 19602 more examples
“Song Repertory and Musical Life in a Village in Hauerland : Songs, Oral History, and Commentary of the Consultant Anton Koppl from Honneschau”
1996, Philip Vilas Bohlman, Central European Folk Music: An Annotated Bibliography of Sources in German, Psychology Press, →ISBN, page 204Germans who spoke a Bavarian-Franconian dialect went to Hauerland and Pressburg; those from the northwestern Lower Rhineland and Flanders ended up in the Zips. After 1860, Zipser German peasants and craftsmen immigrated to […]
2013, Allison Dolan, The Family Tree Guidebook to Europe: Your Essential Guide to Trace Your Genealogy in Europ, Family Tree Books, →ISBN, page 138
Origin
- GermanHauerland
- EnglishHauerland
From German Hauerland; see there for more.
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