Macedonians in the Czech Republic
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1,785 [1] – 11,623 [2][3] | |
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Prague | |
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Primarily Macedonian and Czech | |
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Predominantly Macedonian Orthodox | |
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There is a small community of ethnic Macedonians in the Czech Republic. Among the refugees of the Greek Civil War who were admitted to Czechoslovakia in the late 1940s, roughly 4,000 were of Macedonian ethnicity; they resettled primarily in the Czech portion of the country.[4]
Notable people[]
- Petra Cetkovská (b. 1985), a tennis player
- Marek Jankulovski (b. 1977), a football player
Notes[]
- ^ census 2007
- ^ Balkan monitor 1996 Archived 2008-07-05 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ (pdf)
- ^ Sloboda 2003
Sources[]
- Sloboda, Marián (2003), "Řecká a makedonská etnická skupina v Česku: lingvistické aspekty jejich vzniku a vývoje", in Nábělková, M.; Šimková, M. (eds.), Varia X: Zborník materiálov z X. kolokvia mladých jazykovedcov (PDF), Bratislava: Slovenská jazykovedná spoločnosť pri SAV, pp. 103–113, ISBN 80-89037-04-6
Categories:
- Ethnic groups in the Czech Republic
- Czech people of Macedonian descent
- Macedonian diaspora
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