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Svatá Helena: why this story is worth your attentionWhen people hear the word “minority,” it can sound abstract—like a category in a report. In Svatá Helena, it’s the opposite: it’s practical, daily, ...
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 slogan. But if we slow down, the phrase point...
Volhynia Is No Distant Land: A Shared European Chapter “Volhynia” (Volyň) can sound like a name from an old atlas, but it’s a real region where one thing kept happening: regimes shifted, yet the villa...
Deep water: Vodník and Rusalka Among the most recognizable figures in the Czech imagination, Vodník, the water spirit, certainly has a special place. He is often pictured as a small green man, unsettl...
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 ponds: his natural world is the Bohemian...
From the Velvet Revolution to today: a labour market profoundly reshaped The recent history of work in Czechia really begins with the end of the communist regime and the Velvet Revolution of 1989. Unt...
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 something confined to offices in Brussels...
Argentina and the Recurrent Prominence of the Chaco Reviewing the standard historical overviews of Czech and Slovak migration in Latin America, Argentina appears again and again as the main hub—often ...
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 embellishment. It is a public label that...
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 Industry and Trade Karel Havlíček and Texas Gov...
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, a family. “Praha” feels different, becau...
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, Czech, German, French, Spanish and many o...
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 sound like a simple everyday term, but it re...
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: Prague, Praha, New Prague, Pilsen, Tabor. Th...
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 useful as a shortcut than as a definition. ...
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 fruit, poppy seed, sweet cheese or plum...
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 Czech it immediately evokes a very concrete ...
Beyond “Czech Towns”: Cultural Meeting Points Within Large Metropolises When people hear “Czech emigration”, they often picture a map dotted with place names: a New Prague here, a Praha there, a littl...
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 Bohemia, Silesia and Poland, where nature, cl...
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 Austria. In English it is often associated wit...
