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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]
Bohemia Township, Saunders County; Czechland Lake Recreation Area; Little Bohemia, a historically Czech neighborhood of Omaha, Nebraska. Prague, named after Prague, the capital of the Czech Republic; some of the street names include: Moldau, Elbe, Danube, Moravia or Waldstein; Bruno, named after Brno, the second largest Czech city
This is a list of unincorporated communities in the U.S. state of Texas, listed by county. This may include disincorporated communities, towns with no incorporated status, ghost towns , or census-designated places .
The U.S. state of Texas is divided into 254 counties, more than any other U.S. state. [1] While only about 20% of Texas counties are generally located within the Houston—Dallas—San Antonio—Austin areas, they serve a majority of the state's population with approximately 22,000,000 inhabitants.
The sun rises behind the New Sweden Evangelical Lutheran Church on Aug. 20, 2023 in New Sweden, Texas. Swedish immigrants settled much of eastern Travis and Williamson counties.
A map of the United States of America with the state of Texas highlighted. Texas is a state located in the Southern United States . As of the 2020 census , [ 1 ] 29,145,505 (95.55%) of the 30,503,301 residents of Texas lived in a municipality in the 2023 estimate.
A post office started service in 1884, and in 1896 a Czech Catholic school was established. Praha began a gradual decline after 1873, when the Southern Pacific Railroad laid tracks a mile north of town and Flatonia, a new town founded nearer the tracks, began to draw business away from Praha.
The town is named for the Zabcik (Žabčik) family, immigrants from Ratiboř in the Zlín Region of Moravia, Czech Republic. When the Zabciks immigrated to Texas in 1855, Ratiboř was part of the Austrian Empire. It was founded by Czechs in the late 19th century and was originally named Marekville after storeowners surnamed Marek and their ...