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Among ponds, mills, and still waters Vodník is, before anything else, a creature of water. In Czech tradition he lives in rivers, brooks, lakes, and especially …
A Name That Echoes Home: The True Meaning of a “Mother City” When people call Tabor, South Dakota, the “Mother City of Dakota Czechs,” it can sound like a sloga…
Discussion: The Czech Republic and Latin America: new trade opportunities within European agreements
An economic opening through Europe For the Czech Republic, trade agreements between the European Union and Latin America are not merely a diplomatic matter or s…
An Old-World name in an Oklahoma landscape Encountering “Prague” on an Oklahoma map naturally prompts a simple question: why here? The name is not a decorative …
Argentina and the Recurrent Prominence of the Chaco Reviewing the standard historical overviews of Czech and Slovak migration in Latin America, Argentina appear…
A Name to Anchor Identity: From Mulberry to “Praha” If you look at a Texas map, you’ll encounter a myriad of unique place names. Some describe a tree, a river, …
When a word leaves Prague and never really comes back The most famous Czech word in the world is almost certainly robot. Today it is used in Italian, English, C…
An agreement rooted in a long history The declaration of cooperation signed in Austin in March 2026 by Czech First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Industr…
Why look at the map “with Czech eyes” If you leaf through a map of North America or Eastern Europe with even a little attention, patterns start to surface: Prag…
The word "pivo": simple, familiar, and very old In Czech, beer is called pivo, a short, direct word that feels almost domestic. For a foreign reader it may soun…
A creature of water, but not simply a “Slavic mermaid” Rusalka is often introduced, rather conveniently, as a “Slavic mermaid”, but that description is more use…
From a family koláč to a public celebration The kolache, in its best-known American form, comes from the Czech koláč: a yeasted pastry, often round, filled with…
Beyond “Czech Towns”: Cultural Meeting Points Within Large Metropolises When people hear “Czech emigration”, they often picture a map dotted with place names: a…
A simple name for a complex tradition The word dechovka comes from dechová hudba, literally “wind music”. That sounds almost like a technical label, but in Czec…
A mountain that needed a face The Krkonoše are not simply the highest mountain range in the Czech Republic. They are a border landscape, suspended between Bohem…
A region that seems to breathe slowly Šumava is a broad mountain and forest region in south-western Bohemia, stretching along the border with Germany and Austri…
When hockey reached the Czech lands Ice hockey, known in Czech as lední hokej, took root in the Czech lands well before Czechoslovakia existed. At first it was …
A circle of home: when a pastry becomes a compass If I had to explain the American kolache to someone who’s never seen one, I’d say this: picture a sweet roll t…
Pilsen, Chicago: A Neighborhood Shaped by Successive Migration Layers Pilsen sits on Chicago’s Lower West Side, a place whose story is almost a textbook in how …
Where it is and why it matters New Prague is a small city in southern Minnesota—close enough to the Twin Cities (Minneapolis–St. Paul) to stay connected, but fa…
