According to the 2011 census, Czechs ( sr, Чеси / Česi, italic=yes) in Serbia number 1,824 of population.
National Council of the Czech National Minority in Serbia have seat in
Bela Crkva
Bela Crkva ( sr-cyrl, Бела Црква, ; german: Weißkirchen; hu, Fehértemplom; ro, Biserica Albă) is a town and municipality located in the South Banat District of the autonomous province of Vojvodina, Serbia. The town has a populatio ...
in
Vojvodina
Vojvodina ( sr-Cyrl, Војводина}), officially the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, is an autonomous province that occupies the northernmost part of Serbia. It lies within the Pannonian Basin, bordered to the south by the national capital ...
.
Demographics
Czechs form a majority in
Češko Selo ("Czech Village") in the Eastern Danube part of Southern Banat in
Vojvodina
Vojvodina ( sr-Cyrl, Војводина}), officially the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, is an autonomous province that occupies the northernmost part of Serbia. It lies within the Pannonian Basin, bordered to the south by the national capital ...
.
Notable people
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Aleksandar Mašin
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, military officer and participant of the
May Coup
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Ivan Bek
Ivan "Ivica" Bek (; 29 October 1909 – 2 June 1963), also known as Yvan Beck, was a Serbian football player.
He was part of Yugoslavia's team at the 1928 Summer Olympics and at the 1930 FIFA World Cup.
Club career
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, Yugoslav football player
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Ludmila Frajt, composer
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Emil Hájek
Emil Hájek, sr, Емил Хајек, Emil Hajek, russian: Эми́ль Яросла́вович Га́ек (March 3, 1886, Königgrätz ( cs, Hradec Králové, north-east Kingdom of Bohemia, Austria-Hungary March 17, 1974, in Belgrade, SR Serb ...
, composer and pianist
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Rudolf Nováček, military composer
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Zlatko Krasni Zlatko Krasni ( sr, Златко Красни, (born 1951, Sarajevo, Yugoslavia—died 31 October 2008) was a Serbian poet of Czech origin who resided in Belgrade for most of his life. He held a BA and an MA in Germanic Languages from the Philology ...
, poet
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Aleksandar Lifka, European cinematographer
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Vladislav Titelbah, rural painter
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František Zach
František Zach (; sr, Франтишек Зах/František Zah; 1 May 1807 – 14 January 1892), known as Franjo Zah (Фрањо Зах), was a Czech-born soldier and military theorist, best known for his service to the Principality of Serbia, ...
, military theorist
See also
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Czech-Serbian relations
References
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Borislav Jankulov, ''Pregled kolonizacije Vojvodine u XVIII i XIX veku'', Novi Sad - Pančevo, 2003.
External links
Nacionalni savet češke nacionalne manjine , savetceha.rs
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Serbia
Serbia (, ; Serbian: , , ), officially the Republic of Serbia (Serbian: , , ), is a landlocked country in Southeastern and Central Europe, situated at the crossroads of the Pannonian Basin and the Balkans. It shares land borders with Hungar ...
Ethnic groups in Serbia
Ethnic groups in Vojvodina