History of the Czechs in Vienna

The city of Vienna, Austria once included a large Czech population.

History

Around the start of the 20th century, Vienna (Czech Vídeň, Hungarian Bécs) was the city with the second-largest Czech population in the world (after Prague).[1] At its peak, in 1900, out of 1,674,957 inhabitants of Vienna, 102,974 people claimed Czech or Slovak as their colloquial language.[2] After World War I, many Czechs and also nationalities returned to their ancestral countries, resulting in a decline in the Viennese population. After World War II, the Soviets used force to repatriate key workers of Czech and Hungarian origins to return to their ethnic homelands to further the Soviet bloc economy.

See also

References

  1. "Czech and Slovak roots in Vienna". Wieninternational.at. Retrieved 2014-05-11.
  2. Official census 1900

Further reading

External links

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 9/19/2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.