and were initially supported by rebellious Protestant Hungarians. Having had all of Moravia east of the Morava river under their control by 1621, the Vlachs were defeated in 1623, after which a series of public executions took place. They renewed attacks in late 1623, and notably defeated a Polish contingent in March 1624. In 1625–30 Habsburg and Danish armies repeatedly crossed Moravia. The Vlachs joined the Danes, and later, the Swedes. After the Danish retreat in 1627, and Swedish retreat in 1643, the Habsburgs finally defeated the Vlachs in 1644. Modern period From at least the mid-18th century the populace of Moravian Wallachia described itself as Wallachian. At that time, in German, the community was known as die Wallachey. replaced the term Ualachy (Vlahi) with Ualassko (Valasko), and defined the Moravian Wallach as a shepherd, and stressed that the term had nothing to do with Romanians. He noted that the speech was of elements of Polish and East Slavic dialects. In 1866, Hyde Clarke reported that the Moravians viewed the Moravian Vlachs (Wallachians) as an "alien race", but Slavic-speaking. They had characteristic habits and dress. Notable people Leoš Janáček - famous music composer Milan Baroš - football player Jan Antonín Baťa - businessman, shoemaker (Bata Shoes) Tomáš Baťa - shoemaker Tomáš Berdych - professional tennis player Radoslav Brzobohatý - Czech actor Ota Filip - novelist, journalist, published in Czech and German Bohuslav Fuchs - pioneer of modern architecture Alois Hába - composer Markéta Irglová - singer-songwriter, Academy Award winner Boleslav Polívka - actor Tom Stoppard - British author and playwright Ivana Trump - American business woman, ex-wife of Donald Trump Mirek Topolánek - former Czech Prime Minister Ludvík Vaculík - Czech writer and co-author of Charter 77 (with Jan Patočka and Václav Havel) Emil Zátopek - long-distance runner best known for winning three gold medals at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki See also Hutsuls Boykos Lemkos Gorals Moravian Slovakia Kingdom of Wallachia References Further reading Eckert, Eva. (1993). Varieties of Czech: Studies in Czech Sociolinguistic. Atlanta/Amsterodam, Rodopi. p. 53-54 Short, D. (1993). Czech Republic and Slovak Republic: language situation. In: Asher R.E. (ed.) The Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistic, Oxford, vol. 2, 804-805 A Group of co-authors (2007): Přírodou a historií Valašskomeziříčska po naučných stezkách (Around the Nature and History of Valašské Meziřičí county), Valašské Meziříčí, Český svaz ochránců přírody. 66 Pages. .(in Czech) External links https://web.archive.org/web/20100503172548/http://www.vsacan.cz/en/ Vsacan, a