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The Czechs (Czech: Češi, Romanian: Cehi) are an ethnic minority in Romania, numbering 3,938 people according to the 2002 census. The majority of Romanian Czechs live in the south-west of the country, with around 60% of them living in Caraş-Severin County, where they make up 0.7% of the population.
As an officially-recognised ethnic minority, Czechs, together with Slovaks, have one seat reserved in the Romanian Chamber of Deputies.
[edit] Czech villages
- Gerník cs (Gârnic (ro)), Caraş-Severin
- Rovensko cs (Ravensca (ro)), Caraş-Severin
- Svatá Helena cs (Sfânta Elena (ro)), Caraş-Severin
- Eibentál cs (Eibenthal (ro), (de)), Mehedinţi
- Šumice cs (Şumiţa (ro)), Caraş-Severin
- Bígr cs (Bigăr (ro), Schnellersruhe (de)), Caraş-Severin
- Svatá Alžběta cs (Sfânta Elizabeta (ro), Elisabethfeld (de)), Caraş-Severin - abandoned (too little water)
In these villages Czechs and native Czech Germans are named Pems (Pémové in Czech) too. It is from word Böhm (de) (= settler of Czech Rep., any nation).
[edit] Communes with the largest Czech population percentage
- Dubova, Mehedinţi -- 40.70%
- Gârnic, Caraş-Severin -- 33.46%
- Coronini, Caraş-Severin -- 27.36%
- Berzasca, Caraş-Severin -- 14.24%
- Şopotu Nou, Caraş-Severin -- 10.92%
- Lăpuşnicel, Caraş-Severin -- 10.75%
- Socol, Caraş-Severin -- 4.60%
- Peregu Mare, Arad -- 3.83%
- Eşelniţa, Mehedinţi -- 2.31%
- Orşova, Mehedinţi -- 1.85%
[edit] Notable Czech-Romanians
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