Бойки Boykos Bojkos Ukrainian highlanders

Бойки / Boykos / Bojkos / Bojkowie. The most numerous and very distinct group of Ukrainian highlanders from the Carpathian mountains in west Ukraine. They have unique peculiar genetics, own dialect, own peculiar folk dress and music.

Music: Floyara pipe music from the Ukrainian Carpathian mountains. Floyara (1 meter long pipe) — favourite instrument of sheep shepherds from the mountains in west Ukraine. Also widely known in Slovakia (Slovak Carpathians) as fujara (not quite the same, but very similiar tool). Floyara is more known among and played Hutsuls rather than Boykos though.

I think Boykos have relations to the most ancient European archeological culture of (first agriculturalists) Trypillya — Cucuteni (at least they have almost same genetic pool as ancient LBK population / related to Trypillya Cucuteni people / about same period). Boykos have some folk features (in dress, especially shoes, trousers, hats) analogical to Romanian (Vlach) highlanders. They also have some Asian influence evident in their church architecture (roofs in pagoda style), anthropological features and genetics (most likely some nomads from Asia settled in the Carpathians and mixed with them).

There are also claims that Boykos are remants of Serbs (Serbian tribes) who migrated to the Balkans from Ukraine, along with Croats. There is some similiarity in Boyko and Serb folk costumes. Also Serb legends say that their ancestral home was Bojka. ПІДТРИМАЙ УКРАЇНСЬКЕ! SUPPORT MY PROJECT THROUGH PATREON: www.patreon.com/zakharii