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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.
Czechoslovaks (Czech and Slovak: Čechoslováci) is a designation that was originally designed to refer to a united panethnicity of ethnic Czechs and Slovaks.It has later adopted two distinct connotations, the first being the aforementioned supra-ethnic meaning, and the second as a general term for all citizens of the former Czechoslovakia regardless of ethnicity.
There is a large Czech diaspora, which includes 1,703,930 Americans of Czech/Czechoslovak ancestry, [95] 94,805 Canadians of Czech ancestry, [96] an estimated 45,000 Czech-born residents in the United Kingdom, [8] and ca. 31,000 in Australia. [97]
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Czech Americans (Czech: Čechoameričané), known in the 19th and early 20th century as Bohemian Americans, are citizens of the United States whose ancestry is wholly or partly originate from the Czech lands, a term which refers to the majority of the traditional lands of the Bohemian Crown, namely Bohemia, Moravia and Czech Silesia.
also: Countries: Czechoslovakia: People This category is for people originally from the former country of Czechoslovakia , from 1918, which split into the Czech Republic and Slovakia in 1993. Subcategories
Czech diaspora in South America (1 C, 2 P) * People of Czech descent (12 C, 1 P) Czech culture abroad (4 C) C. Czech communities (3 C, 5 P) Czech diaspora by city (2 C)
The Polish minority in Czechoslovakia (Polish: Polska mniejszość w Czechosłowacji, Czech: Polská národnostní menšina v Československu, Slovak: Poľská menšina v Československu) (today the Polish minority in the Czech Republic and Slovakia) is the Polish national minority living mainly in the Trans-Olza region of western Cieszyn Silesia.