Special Czech community in Romania struggles to survive

01-08-2006 14:58 | Šárka Halasová, Alexis Rosenzweig

A small community of Czechs have been living in the Banat region of south-western Romania for almost two hundred years. In many ways the area looks like the Czech lands would have looked a century ago, with most of the work still done by hand. Alena Gecse, a local school teacher has co-authored a book for school children about the Czech minority in Romania. She told Radio Prague how the first wave of immigration began.

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