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Emigration and immigration sources list the names of people leaving (emigrating) or arriving (immigrating) in the country. These sources may be passenger lists, permissions to emigrate, or records of passports issued. The information in these records may include the emigrants’ names, ages, occupations, destinations, and places of origin or birthplaces. Sometimes they also show family groups. | Emigration and immigration sources list the names of people leaving (emigrating) or arriving (immigrating) in the country. These sources may be passenger lists, permissions to emigrate, or records of passports issued. The information in these records may include the emigrants’ names, ages, occupations, destinations, and places of origin or birthplaces. Sometimes they also show family groups. | ||
[[Category:Emigration and Immigration Records]] | [[Category:Emigration and Immigration Records]] | ||
==Emigration: The Czech Diaspora== | |||
The '''Czech diaspora''' refers to both '''historical and present emigration''' from the '''Czech Republic''', as well as from the '''former Czechoslovakia''' and the '''Czech lands (including Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia)'''. | |||
===Vienna=== | |||
*Around the start of the 20th century, '''Vienna''' was the city with the second-largest Czech population in the world (after Prague). At its peak, in 1900, out of 1,674,957 inhabitants of Vienna, 102,974 people claimed Czech or Slovak as their colloquial language. However, as Umgangssprache (everyday language) was not properly defined by the Austrian authorities, there are claims that the Czech minority numbered as high as 250,000-300,000, making Vienna a city with the second largest Czech speaking population, only after Prague.[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. | |||
21st century | |||
As of 2017, Vienna was home to around 14,500 Czechs.[ | |||
[[Category:Czech Republic Emigration and Immigration]] | [[Category:Czech Republic Emigration and Immigration]] | ||