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The free uncultivated land in America encouraged immigration throughout the nineteenth century; most of the immigrants were farmers and settled in the Midwestern states. [7] The first major immigration of Czechs occurred in 1848 when the Czech "Forty Eighters" fled to the United States to escape the political persecution by the Austrian ...
Beroun, named by Czech immigrants from Beroun, Czech Republic. Bohemian Flats, a former residential area of Minneapolis that was settled by Czechoslovakian and other European immigrants. Litomysl, named after Litomyšl, Czech Republic. New Prague, named by Czech immigrants after Prague, the capital of the Czech Republic.
This category should only list emigrants from the Czech Republic since independence in January 1993. Earlier emigrants from the territory of the present-day Czech Republic should be listed under Category:Czechoslovak emigrants to the United States (or prior to October 1918, under Category:Emigrants from Austria-Hungary to the United States).
Czech wedding guests in Nova Vesi, near Srbac, 1934. The Czech diaspora refers to both historical and present emigration from the Czech Republic, as well as from the former Czechoslovakia and the Czech lands (including Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia). The country with the largest number of Czechs living abroad is the United States.
Historically, America was built by immigrants, people who had nothing and needed to work hard to survive. They built economies and families. They contributed to America. Thank goodness for immigrants.
For those who emigrated since 1993, See Category:Czech emigrants to the United States and Category:Slovak emigrants to the United States Wikimedia Commons has media related to Immigrants to the United States from Czechoslovakia .
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An Augusta sweets bakery is closing its brick-and-mortar shop Saturday with thoughts of opening a food truck in 2024. Heroes Donuts, 3328 Washington Road, Suite 1-A, will be open from 7 a.m. to 3 ...