A larger group of Roma people Builders of troughs from Podravina began migrating from Romania after 1855, when slavery was abolished, although in the region of Podravina they were present since the early 19th century. First they settled the regions between Podravina and Medjugorje, and then the rest of Croatia.
In Podravina, they arrived from Hungary, which is also a confirmation of their Hungarian surnames (Balog, Bogdan, Kalanyos, Ignaz, Chonka, Nirgosh, Kompak ...). It is interesting that the surname Orshosh was worn only by women. Their names and surnames did not give them any special importance, and they changed how they responded.
The children were housed in a church, and the dead were buried at the local cemetery in the presence of priests, usually in addition to the cemetery fences. Otherwise they did not get married. The basic craft was the production of wooden items such as troughs, cutlery, scissors, cooking utensils, pots, costumes and the like.
Otherwise, these areas were chosen as a place to live because of the forests and because of the soft trees (willow, poplar) from which they made all the mentioned hardwoods.
They lived in hand-made dwellings-cubes of branches and mud built into the ground and under a tent. They erected their primitive habitats in those forest areas in the immediate vicinity of a village, water mill or river scaffolding.
In this way, they were within the reach of the local peasantry by selling items that they were making, and also came to the houses where people supplied wood that they made in their yards. The Koritars are a nomadic Roma group, and these places of residence served more as a temporary residence.
Romani women exclusively dealt with witchcraft where the child wounded them and carried them over their back by going from house to house, and older children ran around. The babies were taken in small troughs linked to textile tops. Otherwise, people Builders of troughs used the language "ljimba d bjaš", a vernacular dialect of the Old Roman language, but also Hungarian.
They are known for eating meat on a dead animal, and their hedgehog was like a dessert in their menu. They also worshiped brandy and tobacco. They dressed rugged clothes in colorful colors, and men carried knitters just like women.
