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The Czechs (Czech: Češi, pronounced [ˈtʃɛʃɪ]; singular Czech, masculine: Čech [ˈtʃɛx] ⓘ, singular feminine: Češka [ˈtʃɛʃka]), or the Czech people (Český lid), are a West Slavic ethnic group and a nation native to the Czech Republic [ 17 ] in Central Europe, who share a common ancestry, culture, history, and the Czech ...
Population. [edit] With an estimated population of 10,516,707 as of 2022, compared to 9.3 million at the beginning of the 20th century, the population growth of the Czech Republic has been limited, due to low fertility rates and loss of population in and around World Wars I and II. Population loss during World War I was approximately 350,000.
Czechoslovakia had the highest proportion of minorities, who constituted 32.4% of the population. [2] During World War II, the Jewish and Romani minorities had been exterminated by the Nazis, and after the war most Germans and many Hungarians were expelled under the Beneš decrees. Afterwards, other minority groups migrated to Czechoslovakia ...
Internet TLD. .cz [ b ] The Czech Republic, [ c ][ 12 ] also known as Czechia, [ d ][ 13 ] and historically known as Bohemia, [ 14 ] is a landlocked country in Central Europe. The country is bordered by Austria to the south, Germany to the west, Poland to the northeast, and Slovakia to the southeast. [ 15 ]
Czech nationality law. The citizenship law of the Czech Republic is based on the principles of jus sanguinis or " right by blood ". [1] In other words, descent from a Czech parent is the primary method of acquiring Czech citizenship (together with naturalisation). Birth on Czech territory without a Czech parent is in itself insufficient for the ...
Brazilian states according to the percentage of Whites in 2009. The Brazilian census enumerated people by race in all censuses since 1872 with the exception of 1900, 1920, and 1970. [ 197 ] The Brazilian census classifies people by race as either white, black, pardo (brown), yellow (Asian), or indigenous.
As of 1991, Czechoslovakia had a population of 15.6 million, of which by ethnicity 62.8% were Czechs (including Moravians), 31% Slovaks, 3.8% Hungarians, 0.7% Roma, [1] and 0.4% Silesians. Smaller groups of Rusyns, Ukrainians, Germans, Austrians, Poles and Jews (the post- Holocaust community) combined made up the remaining 1.6% of the population.
The beginnings of ethnic geography as an academic subdiscipline lie in the period following World War I, in the context of nationalism, and in the 1930s exploitation for the purposes of fascist and Nazi propaganda, so that it was only in the 1960s that ethnic geography began to thrive as a bona fide academic subdiscipline. [17]