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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.
Czech districts with 50% or more ethnic German population [24] in 1935. The German minority of the Czech Republic, historically the largest minority of the country, was almost entirely removed when 3 million were forcibly expelled in 1945–6 on the basis of the Potsdam agreement.
Population of Bohemia and Moravia, the Czech Socialist Republic and Czech Republic to ethnic group 1921–1991 Ethnic group census 1921 1 census 1930 census 1950 census 1961 census 1970 census 1980 census 1991 Number % Number % Number % Number % Number % Number % Number % Czechs: 6,758,983 67.5 7,304,588 68.3 8,343,558 93.9 9,023,501 94.2 ...
Czechoslovakia had a peak population of 15.6 million, mainly composed of Czechs, Slovaks, Hungarians, Romani people, Silesians, Ruthenians, Ukrainians, Germans, Poles and Jews. The ethnic composition of Czechoslovakia changed over time from Sudeten Germans being the most prominent ethnicity to Czechs and Slovaks making up two-thirds of the ...
There were 1,363,000 citizens of the Czech Republic who declared Moravian ethnicity in 1991. However, the number dropped to 380,474 in the 2001 census: many persons previously declaring themselves as Moravians declared themselves again as Czechs in this census.
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]
After the revolutions of 1848 and the rise of ethnic nationalism, nervousness about ethnic tensions in Austria-Hungary resulted in a prevailing equality between Czechs and German Bohemians. [14] Each ethnicity tried to retain, in regions in which it was the majority, sovereignty over its own affairs.
For the Czechs of the Protectorate Bohemia and Moravia, German occupation was a period of brutal oppression. Czech losses resulting from political persecution and deaths in concentration camps totaled between 36,000 and 55,000. The Jewish populations of Bohemia and Moravia (118,000 according to the 1930 census) were virtually annihilated. Many ...