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Although Czech Jesuits such as Valentin Stansel had been working in Brazil since the 18th century, the first Czech immigrants arrived in 1823. Among these early immigrants was Jan Nepomuk Kubíček, a Catholic carpenter from Třeboň and one of the great-grandfathers of Juscelino Kubitschek, the 24th President of Brazil (from 1956 to 1961). [2] [3]
A country demonym denotes the people or the inhabitants of or from there; for example, "Germans" are people of or from Germany. Demonyms are given in plural forms. Singular forms simply remove the final s or, in the case of -ese endings, are the same as the plural forms. The ending -men has feminine equivalent -women (e.g. Irishman, Scotswoman).
Czech Republic's main exports to Brazil include: piston combustion engines and their parts; motor vehicles parts and components; liquid pumps; electric motors and pipes and tubes. [4] [6] Brazil is the Czech Republic's largest trading partner in Latin America. Brazilian multinational company Embraer operates in the Czech Republic.
The Czechs (Czech: Češi, pronounced [ˈtʃɛʃɪ]; singular Czech, masculine: Čech ⓘ, singular feminine: Češka [ˈtʃɛʃka]), or the Czech people (Český lid), are a West Slavic ethnic group and a nation native to the Czech Republic [16] in Central Europe, who share a common ancestry, culture, history, and the Czech language.
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 ...
The following article lists sovereign states, dependent territories and some quasi-states according to their proportional ethnic population composition. Ethnic classifications vary from country to country and are therefore not comparable across countries.
Brazilian people of Czechoslovak descent (1 C) Pages in category "Brazilian people of Czech descent" The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 total.
Many people on this list are not ethnically Czech but rather born in Bohemian/Moravian territory, of German and/or Jewish extraction. To be included in this list, the person must have a Wikipedia article showing they are Czech American or must have references showing they are Czech American and are notable.