Andrew Poje
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Andrew Poje is a Canadian ice dancer. With partner Kaitlyn Weaver, he is a three-time World medalist, a two-time Four Continents champion, a two-time Grand Prix Final champion, and a three-time Canadi
Kaitlyn Weaver and Andrew Poje at the 2019 Four Continents Championships
Weaver and Poje at the 2011 Rostelecom Cup
Weaver and Poje during the compulsory dance at the 2008 World Championships
Gottscheers
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Gottscheers are the German settlers of the Kočevje region of Slovenia, formerly Gottschee County. Until the Second World War, their main language of communication was Gottscheerish, a Bavarian dialect
Andrew Poje
…2016, 2019). Andrew Poje was born on February 25, 1987, in Waterloo, Ontario. His ancestry is Slovak — his mother was born in Bratislava — and Slovenian Gottscheer. He is the great-nephew of former pair skater and coach Agnesa Búřilová (née Wlachovská). He has some knowledge of French. Poje took up ice dancing at…
People dressed in traditional Gottscheer costume at a folk festival in Maria Saal, Austria, 2023
Gottschee German peasants in an engraving from Johann Weikhard von Valvasor's work The Glory of the Duchy of Carniola, 17th century
Parade during the 600 year anniversary celebrations, 1930
Ethnic Germans from Gottschee facing resettlement in 1941