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Are there hill people in Europe?

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Funky Papa

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Thread is kind of malicious, tbh. It's easy to shit on hill people while ignoring the enormous issues they face.

Arjen said:
We don't even have hills here.
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Soon.
 
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zeknurn

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Nah no hill people, but we do have swamp people and they live in places like Denmark and the Netherlands.
 
Pagoto93

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In S. Greece there's a group of mountain people who speak a descendant of Spartan Doric Greek.
 
Layla

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did you know that up until relatively recently Europe used to have an "untouchable" class of people called the Cagot?

As Marie-Pierre avers, the truth about the Cagots is obscure. The people first emerge in documents around the 13th century. By then they are already regarded as an inferior caste, the "untouchables" of western France, or northern Spain. In medieval times the Cagots – also knows as Agotes, Gahets, Capets, Caqueux, etc – were divided from the general peasantry in several ways. They had their own urban districts: usually on the malarial side of the river. These dismal ghettoes were known as Cagoteries; traces of them can still be found in Pyrenean communities such as Campan or Hagetmau.

For hundreds of years, Cagots were treated as different and inferior. In the churches, they had to use their own doors (at least 60 Pyrenean churches still boast "Cagot" entrances); they had their own fonts; and they were given communion on the end of long wooden spoons. Marie-Pierre adds: "When a Cagot came into a town, they had to report their presence by shaking a rattle. Just like a leper, ringing his bell."
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https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/the-last-untouchable-in-europe-878705.html
 
AncientReptileBrain

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is there much a relationship between hill people and swamp nazis?
edit: i immediately feel kind of bad for participating in this thread
 
JayC3

JayC3

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Since this thread is rapidly becoming jokes at the expense of people based on where they live, it is closed to further replies.
 
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