Czechization is a term used to describe a cultural change in which something ethnically non-Czech

Czech people

Czechs, or Czech people are a western Slavic people of Central Europe, living predominantly in the Czech Republic. Small populations of Czechs also live in Slovakia, Austria, the United States, the United Kingdom, Chile, Argentina, Canada, Germany, Russia and other countries...

 is made to become Czech. The term is commonly used especially in relation to Germans

Germans

The Germans are a Germanic ethnic group native to Central Europe. The English term Germans has referred to the German-speaking population of the Holy Roman Empire since the Late Middle Ages....

 and Poles

Poles

thumb|right|180px|The state flag of [[Poland]] as used by Polish government and diplomatic authoritiesThe Polish people, or Poles , are a nation indigenous to Poland. They are united by the Polish language, which belongs to the historical Lechitic subgroup of West Slavic languages of Central Europe...

; in smaller extent it also applies to the Slovaks

Slovaks

The Slovaks, Slovak people, or Slovakians are a West Slavic people that primarily inhabit Slovakia and speak the Slovak language, which is closely related to the Czech language.Most Slovaks today live within the borders of the independent Slovakia...

 and Ruthenians

Rusyns

Carpatho-Rusyns are a primarily diasporic ethnic group who speak an Eastern Slavic language, or Ukrainian dialect, known as Rusyn. Carpatho-Rusyns descend from a minority of Ruthenians who did not adopt the use of the ethnonym "Ukrainian" in the early twentieth century...

 (Rusyns).

Czechization in Germany

"In June 1905, the German language paper Bohemia of Prague reported Czechization in Saxony, Germany after a great influx of Czech workers had Czechified the town of Ostritz

Ostritz

Ostritz is a town in the district Görlitz, in the Free State of Saxony, Germany. It is situated on the border with Poland, on the left bank of the Lusatian Neisse, 16 km south of Görlitz....

. According to Saxon officials the reports were greatly exaggerated. They conceded that while Czech speakers in Saxon communities were fewer than popularly supposed, they were nevertheless worth watching."

See also

• Demographics of Czechoslovakia
  Demographics of Czechoslovakia
  Population : 15.6 millions, out of which Czechs 62.8%, Slovaks 31%, Hungarians 3.8%, Romanies 0.7%, Silesians 0.3%. Ruthenes, Ukrainians, Germans, Poles and Jews made up the remainder of the population....
  
  
• Demographics of the Czech Republic
  Demographics of the Czech Republic
  This article is about the demographic features of the population of the Czech Republic, including population density, ethnicity, education level, health of the populace, economic status, religious affiliations and other aspects of the population.-Population:...
  
  
• Germans in Czechoslovakia (1918-1938)
  Germans in Czechoslovakia (1918-1938)
  From 1918 to 1938, after the breakup of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, more than 3 million ethnic Germans were living in what became the Czech lands of the newly created state of Czechoslovakia. Ethnic Germans had lived in Bohemia, a part of the Holy Roman Empire, since the 14th century , mostly in...
  
  
• Poles in Czechoslovakia
• Ruthenians and Ukrainians in Czechoslovakia (1918-1938)
  Ruthenians and Ukrainians in Czechoslovakia (1918-1938)
  Subcarpathian Ruthenia was economically Czechoslovakia’s poorest region. In 1914 the region was referred to by one historian as "little more than a Magyar deer park." Its people were wretchedly poor, having for centuries supplemented the meagre living the mountainous area afforded with seasonal...
  
  
• Slovaks in Czechoslovakia (1918–1938)
• Slovaks in Czechoslovakia (1960–1990)

External links

• President Tiso - A much maligned priest