Gottschee

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Gottschee (Slovene: Kočevsko) refers to a former German-speaking region in Carniola, a crownland of the Habsburg Empire, located in modernday Slovenia. The region has been a county, duchy, district, and municipality during various parts of its history. The term often also refers to the entire ethnolinguistic enclave regardless of administrative borders. Today Gottschee largely corresponds to the Municipality of Kočevje. The original German settlers of the region are called Gottschee Germans or Gottscheers, and their German dialect is called Gottschee German or Gottscheerish.