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 the height of the migration, about one-third of the Viennese population was of Slavic or Hungarian origin. By 1910, Vienna had over 100,000 people of Czech origin.[2] After World War I, many Czechs and Hungarians 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. "Czechs in Vienna". Porges.net. Retrieved 2014-05-11.

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