Czechs
The Czechs (Czech: Češi, pronounced [ˈtʃɛʃɪ]; singular 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 in Central Europe, who share a common ancestry, culture, history, and the Czech language. Ethnic Czechs were called Bohemians in English until the early 20th century, referring to the medieval land of Bohemia which in turn was adapted from late Iron Age tribe of Celtic Boii. During the Migration Period, West Slavic tribes of Bohemians settled in the area, "assimilated the remaining Celtic and Germanic populations", …
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CGAI: Canadian Global Affairs Institute · 1 October 2023 English
Table of Contents Preface Introduction Colony to Nation O Canada A Compromise with Geography, Climate and Diversity The Great White North Settling Canada Resources: “Quelques arpents de neige” A Trading …
other displaced persons. Poles, Hungarians and Czechs followed after their failed insurrections. Later …
FRHD: Freehand Books · 14 September 2023 English
Spanning Canada, the Czech Republic, and New Zealand, a novel about following signs, finding love, and losing your self. When Mája was seven, her mother disappeared. Now, at thirty, Mája …
curious to know what they meant, to him and to Czechs in general, but I didn’t want to lapse into interview … “What about your name?” I asked. “What about it?” “Czechs have like ten versions of their names, right? What …
MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 July 2023 English
After World War II displaced more than sixty million people, Cold War politics opened global eyes and wallets to European displaced persons. The postwar experiences of more than three million …
Lithuanians, Russians, Belarusians, Jews, Yugoslavs, Czechs, and others – lived side by side with Polish dPs … groups – and Germans, Lithuanians, Russians, and Czechs.10 The necessity to add cat- egories such as “local …
MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 17 April 2023 English
In early 1918 the French government adopted the policy of unremitting hostility that characterized its early relations with the Soviet government. That policy brought about political, economic, and military intervention …
hoped to ride the railway into Mos- cow, using the Czechs to overthrow Soviet power and re-establish French …
DDN: Dundurn Press · 14 February 2023 English
From the tenements of Dublin to the slums of Toronto, Terry Burke paints a graphic picture of his boyhood, as part of an Irish immigrant family struggling to survive on …
thousands. Added to the mix were Poles, Hungarians, Czechs, Russians, and Jews, all eager to escape the horrors …
MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 21 October 2022 English
The Etruscans, a revenant and unusual people, had an Italian empire before the Greeks and Romans did. By the start of the Christian era their wooden temples and writings had …
Etruscans in Ancient Literature,” 46. 9 In Europe, the Czechs (in the 1620s) and the Poles (in 1790s) were conquered …
CGAI: Canadian Global Affairs Institute · 1 October 2022 English
Table of Contents Preface Introduction Colony to Nation The Constitution The Great White North O Canada A Compromise with Geography, Climate and Diversity Settling Canada Resources: “Quelques arpents de neige” …
other displaced persons. Poles, Hungarians and Czechs followed after their failed insurrections. Later …
PMLQ: Parti marxiste-léniniste du Québec · 11 September 2022 English
The Nanjing Massacre, also known as the Rape of Nanjing, was the mass murder of Chinese civilians in Nanjing, the capital of the Republic of China, immediately after the Battle …
the Sudetenland of Czechoslovakia, ordered the Czechs not to resist Nazi aggression and gave the Nazis …
PMLQ: Parti marxiste-léniniste du Québec · 1 September 2022 English
What was the result of the Soviet Army marching into Poland? As a result of the Soviet Union's timely entry into what had been territories of the Polish state, Hitler …
Czechoslovakia and incorporate the Sudetenland, ordered the Czechs not to resist Nazi aggression, and gave the Nazis …
MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 26 July 2022 English
Much of today’s international order can be traced to the experimentations with governance that occurred in central Europe immediately after World War I. And though Western governments did not bring …
much less about other subject peoples such as the Czechs or the Slovaks.69 In contrast, Russian treatment …