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Also known as Chotis, schottisch, Scottish

thumb|255px|Chotis Madrileño August 2017

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  • Contemporary
  • Argentina
  • Australia
  • Brazil
  • Czech Republic
  • Finland
  • France
  • Germany
  • Italy
  • Ireland
  • Mexico
  • Norway
  • Philippines
  • Paraguay
  • Poland
  • Portugal
  • Scotland
  • Spain
  • Sweden
  • United States
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thumb|255px|Chotis Madrileño August 2017

The is a partnered country dance that apparently originated in Bohemia. It was popular in Victorian-era ballrooms as a part of the Bohemian folk-dance craze and left its traces in folk music of countries such as Argentina and Paraguay (Spanish Wikipedia and ), Finland (), France, Italy, Norway (""), Portugal and Brazil (, ''), Spain (), Sweden, Denmark (), Mexico (), The Philippines (), and the United States, among other nations. The schottische is considered by The Oxford Companion to Music to be a kind of slower polka, with continental-European origin.

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