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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.
On October 18, 1918, the primary author of the agreement, T. G. Masaryk, whose father was Slovak and mother Moravian, declared the independence of Czechoslovakia on the steps of Independence Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was elected the first president of an independent Czechoslovakia in 1920. However, he broke his promise of Slovak ...
The Czech American community mobilized massively to help in the searches for the girl and support her family, and it gained much sympathy from the general American public. While most Czech-Americans are white, some are people of color or are Latino/Hispanic. A small group of Black Czech-Americans of Ethiopian descent lives in Baltimore. [14]
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.
Category: Czech diaspora. 15 languages. ... Czech diaspora by city (2 C) Czech diaspora by country (7 C, 16 P) Czech-Jewish diaspora (3 C, 2 P) E. Czech emigrants (22 ...
Czech Texans are residents of the state of Texas who are of Czech ancestry. Large scale Czech immigration to Texas began after the Revolutions of 1848 changed the political climate in Central Europe, and after a brief interruption during the U.S. Civil War, continued until the First World War. [ 1 ]
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The organization was a western offshoot of the Czech-Slovak Protective Society (CSPS), which was based in the eastern states. [4] ZCBJ founder members disagreed with some CSPS policies which were not tailored to their specific circumstances, especially about the calculation of payments to members, [ 4 ] and the admission of women to the club's ...