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Video: The Danes in Germany
This reports takes us to the German-Danish border in Schleswig-Hostein. Until 1920, all of Schleswig used to be Prussian. In 1920, after a referendum, the northermost part was allocated to Denmark and today’s border was established, which resulted in the creation of minorities on both sides of the b...
- Date | 26.05.10
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Video: The Walser at the foot of the Monte Rosa
Near the Swiss border, in today’s Autonomous Region of Aosta, Walser people have lived for centuries. During the Middle Ages, several groups from the Swiss canton Valais spread out in all directions. Some of them settled in Gressoney, east of Monte Rosa. To this day, the descendants of these emigran...
- Date | 28.04.10
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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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Video: Arbëreshë - An Albanian Minority in Southern Italy
During the Easter celebrations in 2009, minet met some members of the Arbëresh community in Calabria. In many villages throughout southern Italy and Sicily, this long-established Albanian minority, which counts about 100 000 speakers, was able to preserve its Albanian traditions and its Byzantine li...
- Date | 27.04.09
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Video: The Dard People – A Minority in the Northwest of India
The Ladakh region is known for its outstanding beauty, for its mountains, its Tibetan-Buddhist culture. The region is also referred to as „Little Tibet“ and it is the home of the Dard people, an Indo-European minority. Their facial features, with their slender noses, Caucasian-looking eyes and relat...
- Date | 26.11.08
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Video: Pecs in Hungary – Home to Nine Ethnic Minority Groups
The Southern Hungarian town of Pecs – also called Fünfkirchen – has often been referred to as „the accepting town“ in its 2000 year old history. minet visited the provincial town where nine ethnic minority groups live side by side. Also mentioned in the report is the „Gandhi-Gymnasium“, the only Rom...
- Date | 24.09.08
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Video: Minority Anthems – A Music Archive in Vienna
A unique collection of minority anthems can be found at the University of Performing Arts and Music in Vienna, at the Institute for Folk Music Research and Ethno-Musicology. minet has traced some of the minority anthems in their collection. minet broadcast: 28.05.2009 Also featured in this programm...
- Date | 28.05.08
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Video: Zahre – A German Language Enclave in the Carnic Alps
Sauris/Zahre effectively consists of two villages: Sauris di Sotto/Unterzahre and Sauris di Sopra/Oberzahre. These two villages form the German language enclave in north eastern Italy. It is not entirely clear when the German speakers began to settle in Zahre. The reason for this is that a fire, tw...
- Date | 30.04.08
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