Editing Morlachs (section)

== Legacy ==
During the time of [[Age of Enlightenment|Enlightenment]] and [[Romanticism]], Morlachs were seen as the "model of primitive Slavdom",{{sfn|Wolff|2002|p=13}} and the "spirits of [[pastoral]] [[Arcadia (utopia)|Arcadia]] ''Morlacchia''".{{sfn|Naimark|Case|2003|p=41}} They attracted the attention of travel writers like 17th-century [[Jacob Spon]] and [[Sir George Wheler]],{{sfn|Wolff|2002|p=128}}<ref>{{cite book|author1=Wendy Bracewell|author2=Alex Drace-Francis|title=Under Eastern Eyes: A Comparative Introduction to East European Travel Writing on Europe|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YZipk3ZEJJwC&q=morlachs|publisher=Central European University Press|year=2008|pages=154–157|isbn=978-9639776111}}</ref> and 18th-century writers [[Johann Gottfried Herder]] and [[Johann Wolfgang von Goethe]], who labeled their poems as "Morlackisch".{{sfn|Wolff|2002|p=190}}{{sfn|Naimark|Case|2003|p=42}} In 1793, at the carnival in Venice, a play about Morlachs, ''Gli Antichi Slavi'' ("antique Slavs"), was performed, and in 1802 it was reconceived as a ballet ''Le Nozze dei Morlacchi''.{{sfn|Naimark|Case|2003|p=42}} At the beginning of the 20th century, still seen as relics from the primitive past and a byword for barbarous people, they may have inspired science fiction novelist [[H. G. Wells]] in his depiction of the fictional [[Morlock|Morlocks.]]{{sfn|Wolff|2002|p=348}} [[Thomas Graham Jackson]] described Morlach women as half-savages wearing "embroidered leggings thet give them the appearance of [[Native Americans in the United States|Indian]] [[squaw]]s".{{sfn|Naimark|Case|2003|p=47}} In the 20th century, [[Alice Lee Moqué]], as did many other women travelers, in her 1914 travelogue ''Delightful Dalmatia'' emphasized the "barbaric gorgeousness" of the sight of Morlach women and men in their folk costumes, which "made [[Zadar|Zara]]'s Piazza look like a stage setting", and regretted the coming of new civilization.{{sfn|Naimark|Case|2003|p=47}}

In the Balkans, the term became derogatory, indicating people from the mountains and backward people, and became disliked by the Morlachs themselves.<ref name="Baerlein">{{cite book|author=Henry Baerlein|title=The Birth of Yugoslavia (Complete)|year=1922|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zrerfGc7kUoC&pg=PT20|publisher=Library of Alexandria|isbn=978-1-4655-5007-1|pages=20–}}</ref>{{sfn|Naimark|Case|2003|p=46}} 

Italian cheese [[Morlacco]], also named as Morlak, Morlach, Burlach, or Burlacco, was named after Morlach herders and woodsmen who lived and made it in the region of [[Monte Grappa]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Formaggio Morlacco|website=venetoagricoltura.org|language=it |access-date=12 November 2015|url=https://www.venetoagricoltura.org/upload/pubblicazioni/E455%20Atlante%20tradizionali/Formaggio%20Morlacco.pdf}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Morlacco del Grappa|website=venetoformaggi.it|language=it|access-date=12 November 2015|url=https://www.venetoformaggi.it/it/formaggi/morlacco-del-grappa.php}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Grappa Mountain Morlacco|website=fondazioneslowfood.com|publisher=[[Slow Food]]|access-date=12 November 2015|url=https://www.fondazioneslowfood.com/en/slow-food-presidia/grappa-mountain-morlacco/}}</ref> "[[Morlacchi]]" remains attested as an Italian family name.{{cn|date=August 2024}}