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Volhynia: Czech villages, Czech names, and a historical wound
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czechsonline 05/01/2026 7 min read History and Heritage

Volhynia: Czech villages, Czech names, and a historical wound

Volhynia (Volyň) hosted a dense network of Czech villages created by 19th-century settlers who moved for land and a stable life. They left Czech place-names, schools, churches, and associations in a region where borders later shifted violently. The story turns dark in the 20th century, with occupati...
Heritage Villages Names Wound Volhynia
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Latin America: Argentina (Chaco) and the diaspora as a network of associations
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czechsonline 04/01/2026 10 min read History and Heritage

Latin America: Argentina (Chaco) and the diaspora as a network of associations

Argentina is often described as the Latin American country with the largest Czech and Slovak-descendant community. In Chaco—especially around Presidencia Roque Sáenz Peña—diaspora is not just ancestry: it is an ecosystem of clubs, schools, mutual-aid traditions, memory projects, and everyday social ...
Argentina Latin america Chaco Diaspora Heritage
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Oklahoma: Prague — foundation, the 1891 land run, and a declared identity
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czechsonline 03/01/2026 4 min read History and Heritage

Oklahoma: Prague — foundation, the 1891 land run, and a declared identity

Prague, Oklahoma, grew out of the 1891 land opening tied to the Sac and Fox lands and quickly became a town with a strong Czech signature. Its story runs from the land run and early platting to institutions that kept memory visible: St. Wenceslaus parish, the National Shrine of the Infant Jesus of P...
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Chicago’s Pilsen: A Neighborhood Shaped by Successive Migration Layers
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czechsonline 02/01/2026 10 min read History and Heritage

Chicago’s Pilsen: A Neighborhood Shaped by Successive Migration Layers

Pilsen is one of Chicago’s clearest examples of how migration can “write” itself onto a city map. The neighborhood’s name points to Plzeň in Bohemia and is commonly linked to a Czech restaurant/tavern that helped the label stick. Built as a dense working-class district after the 1871 fire, Pilsen la...
Heritage Pilsen Name Neighborhood Chicago
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Cities, places, and neighborhoods created by Czech emigrants
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czechsonline 01/01/2026 13 min read History and Heritage Free

Cities, places, and neighborhoods created by Czech emigrants

This article introduces places shaped by Czech emigrants: cities founded or renamed, urban neighborhoods that became ethnic districts, and European villages born from internal colonization. Through case studies (Pilsen in Chicago, Czech Village in Cedar Rapids, New Prague in Minnesota, Prague in Okl...
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