!!!Welsche

Welsche (Middle High German "walch" = stranger, foreigner 
esp. used for Roman or Neo-Latin people), also called Walchen (Middle 
High German walhisch, welhisch = Roman, later derogatory for 
"foreign, strange"), originally the term used by Germanic 
people for the Celts, later extended to the Roman people; it was in 
particular the indigenous population of the Alpine area that called 
the Roman people "Walchen". While the majority of Roman 
settlers had fled the country during the migration of the Germanic 
peoples, some of them remained in individual places, which is 
sometimes evident in place names (e.g. Strasswalchen, Seewalchen, 
Walchsee, Walgau, Wallersee, Wals); Roman peasants still lived in the 
Upper Austrian Traungau region and on River Salzach in the 8%%sup th/% 
 and 9%%sup th/%  centuries. The later term "welsch", also 
"walsch" in vernacular, was used especially for Italians 
(e.g.  Welschtirol), whereas Ladin people were referred to as 
"Krautwalsche".


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