Publication details
Mizející menšina. Historie a současnost českého osídlení v srbském Banátě
| Title in English | Disappearing World. On the History of the Czech Minority in the Serbian Banat |
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| Authors | |
| Year of publication | 2003 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Národopisná revue |
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| Citation | |
| Field | History |
| Keywords | Minorities; colonization; Banat. |
| Description | In the introductory part of the paper the author emphasizes that in the past two decades there has been a great attention paid by the Czech scholars to the ethnological research of the Czech minorities living in the Balkans, where Czechs used to migrate as colonists after the Hapsburg-Ottoman Wars at the beginning of the 19th century. However, he notes that the historical research on the matter falls short. The author strives to contribute to this field of study by examining the primary sources on the colonization processes and the historical development of the Czech settlement in the Serbian Banat. The results of this research are presented in a concise form. The author describes the troublesome beginnings and a gradual stabilization of the Czech colonization of the scarcely populated easternmost parts of the Hapsburg Empire, which commenced in the 1820s. The Czech colonists formed a relatively compact Czech settlement in the southern part of the Banat with a centre in the town of Weisskirchen-Bela Crkva. |