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Video: The Karaites – A Small Minority in Lithuania
Trakai, near Vilnius in Lithuania, has been the home of a small community of Turkic Karaites for centuries. In contrast to the Karaites in Israel, the Lithuanian Karaites don’t view themselves as Jews, but as an independent religious community, and that is also how they are seen by the Jewish commun...
- Date | 26.10.09
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Video: Occitan in Italy – The Small Village of Guardia Piemontese
Minet had good reasons for visiting a small village in Calabria – it is one of the very few places where remnants of a Gallo-Roman language are still being spoken today. The Occitan language, the ancient lyrical language of the troubadours, is usually associated with the South of France, Catalonia, ...
- Date | 28.05.09
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Video: The Gottscheer in Slovenia – A German Language Enclave
More than 700 years ago, German speaking farmers from Carinthia and the Val Pusteria settled near the town of Ljublijana. Until shortly before WWII, more than 12 000 people practised their, in parts, original German language and culture. Hundreds of Gottscheer were killed or driven away during the w...
- Date | 27.04.09
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