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The Czechs (Czech: Češi, Pémové; Romanian: Cehi, Pemi; Hungarian: Bánáti csehek) are an ethnic minority in Romania, numbering 3,938 people according to the 2002 census. The majority of Romanian Czechs live in the south-west of the country, with around 60% of them living in Caraș-Severin County, where they make up 0.7% of the population.
As an officially recognised ethnic minority, Czechs, together with Slovaks, have one seat reserved in the Romanian Chamber of Deputies associated within Democratic Union of Slovaks and Czechs of Romania.




History


The Czechs were among the last peoples colonized by the Habsburg Empire in Banat. Their colonization took place in three main waves/stages: 1823, 1827 and 1862, as a consequence of the need to populate the sparsely populated territories, to clear the forests and to ensure, together with the inhabitants of the Romanian villages, the protection of the borders.




Communes with the largest Czech population percentage


Dubova, Mehedinți—40.70%
Gârnic, Caraș-Severin—33.46%
Coronini, Caraș-Severin—27.36%
Berzasca, Caraș-Severin—14.24%
Șopotu Nou, Caraș-Severin—10.92%
Lăpușnicel, Caraș-Severin—10.75%
Socol, Caraș-Severin—4.60%
Peregu Mare, Arad—3.83%
Eșelnița, Mehedinți—2.31%
Orșova, Mehedinți—1.85%
There are six villages with a Czech majority. Five are in Caraș-Severin County: Bigăr, Berzasca Commune; Gârnic, Gârnic Commune; Ravensca, Șopotu Nou Commune; Sfânta Elena, Coronini Commune; and Șumița, Lăpușnicel Commune. One is in Mehedinți County: Eibenthal, Dubova Commune.




Notable Czech-Romanians


Ignat Bednarik, painter
Anton Chladek, painter
Matilda Cugler-Poni, poet
Ludovic Dauș, novelist
Julius Podlipny, painter
Jan Tausinger, violinist, conductor and composer
Anton Vorel, herbalist
Lascăr Vorel, painter




Notes






See also



Czech Republic–Romania relations
Romanians in the Czech Republic
Slovak people in Romania
Czech diaspora
Immigration to Romania

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