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The Czechs (Czech: Češi, Pémové; Romanian: Cehi, Pemi; Hungarian: Bánáti csehek) 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 Caraș-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 associated within Democratic Union of Slovaks and Czechs of Romania.

History

The Czechs were among the last peoples colonized by the Habsburg Empire in Banat. Their colonization took place in three main waves/stages: 1823, 1827 and 1862, as a consequence of the need to populate the sparsely populated territories, to clear the forests and to ensure, together with the inhabitants of the Romanian villages, the protection of the borders.

Communes with the largest Czech population percentage

Dubova, Mehedinți—40.70%
Gârnic, Caraș-Severin—33.46%
Coronini, Caraș-Severin—27.36%
Berzasca, Caraș-Severin—14.24%
Șopotu Nou, Caraș-Severin—10.92%
Lăpușnicel, Caraș-Severin—10.75%
Socol, Caraș-Severin—4.60%
Peregu Mare, Arad—3.83%
Eșelnița, Mehedinți—2.31%
Orșova, Mehedinți—1.85%

There are six villages with a Czech majority. Five are in Caraș-Severin County: Bigăr, Berzasca Commune; Gârnic, Gârnic Commune; Ravensca, Șopotu Nou Commune; Sfânta Elena, Coronini Commune; and Șumița, Lăpușnicel Commune. One is in Mehedinți County: Eibenthal, Dubova Commune.

Notable Czech-Romanians

Ignat Bednarik, painter
Anton Chladek, painter
Matilda Cugler-Poni, poet
Ludovic Dauș, novelist
Julius Podlipny, painter
Jan Tausinger, violinist, conductor and composer
Anton Vorel, herbalist
Lascăr Vorel, painter

Notes

(in Romanian) Alena Gecse and Dezideriu Gecse, "Istoria și cultura cehilor din Banat", in Minorităţi în zonele de contact interetnic. Cehii şi slovacii în România şi Ungaria, p.45-60, ed. Jakab Albert Zsolt and Peti Lehel, Editura Institutului pentru Studierea Problemelor Minorităților Naționale and Editura Kriterion, Cluj-Napoca, 2010, ISBN 978-606-92512-2-5.

v t e Ethnic groups in Romania
Dominant group	Romanians (16,792,868)
Officially recognised minorities	Hungarians (1,227,623) Romani (621,573) Ukrainians (50,920) Germans (36,042) Turks (27,698) Lipovans (23,487) Tatars (divided into Crimean Tatars and Nogais) (20,282) Serbs (18,076) Slovaks (13,654) Bulgarians (7,336) Croats (5,408) Greeks (3,668) Jews (3,271) Italians (3,203) Poles (2,543) Czechs (2,477) Armenians (1,361) Macedonians (1,264) Albanians (520) Rusyns (262)
Non-recognized minorities	Aromanians (26,500) Hutsuls* (self-declared, 3,890) Csángós* (self-declared, 1,536) Megleno-Romanians (1,200–2,000) Székelys* (self-declared, 532) Krashovani* (self-declared, 207) Slovenes (175) Gagauz (5)
Historical ethnic groups	Circassians (approximately 10,000 in the mid-19th century) Dobrujan Arabs (145 in 1850)
Immigrant groups	Citizens of the Republic of Moldova (177,000) Arabs (5,000) Afghans (2,384) Chinese (2,243) Indians (1,000) Filipinos (800) Africans (700) Pakistanis (700) Iranians (610) Kurds (500) Mexicans (224) Bangladeshis (100)
* = Subgroups of officially recognized ethnicities that are not treated by the Romanian authorities as separate minorities.

v t e Czech diaspora
Africa	Kenya South Africa
Asia	Israel
Americas	Argentina Brazil Canada Mexico United States Baltimore Nebraska South Dakota Texas Venezuela
Europe	Austria Vienna Bulgaria Croatia France Germany Italy Poland Romania Serbia Ukraine United Kingdom
Oceania	Australia

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Communes with the largest Czech population percentage

Notable Czech-Romanians

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