Armenians in the Czech Republic are ethnic

Armenians Armenians ( hy, հայեր, ''hayer'' ) are an ethnic group native to the Armenian highlands of Western Asia. Armenians constitute the main population of Armenia and the ''de facto'' independent Artsakh. There is a wide-ranging diaspora ...

living in the modern

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. As of 2018, there were 1,879 Armenian citizen with a residence permit in the Czech Republic.

History

Unlike Armenian communities throughout eastern and central Europe, the Armenian community of the Czech republic is made up entirely of recent immigrants, as there are no previous history of Armenian communities in the region. Most have come to the region after the

dissolution of the Soviet Union The dissolution of the Soviet Union, also negatively connoted as rus, Разва́л Сове́тского Сою́за, r=Razvál Sovétskogo Soyúza, ''Ruining of the Soviet Union''. was the process of internal disintegration within the Sov ...

, others fleeing poor economic conditions in the

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n Republic. The Armenian Community in the Czech Republic is still growing, as signified with the opening of an Armenian Saturday school in

Prague Prague ( ; cs, Praha ; german: Prag, ; la, Praga) is the capital and largest city in the Czech Republic, and the historical capital of Bohemia. On the Vltava river, Prague is home to about 1.3 million people. The city has a temperate ...

in 1996, the establishment of an Armenian Cultural Center and the later establishment of the ''Orer'' (Օրեր)

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(1999), edited by Hakob Asatryan
a former journalist
for the ''Azg'' (Ազգ) paper in

Yerevan Yerevan ( , , hy, Երևան , sometimes spelled Erevan) is the capital and largest city of Armenia and one of the world's oldest continuously inhabited cities. Situated along the Hrazdan River, Yerevan is the administrative, cultural, and i ...

who moved to Prague around 1998.

Language

Armenian migrants freely speak the

Russian language Russian (russian: русский язык, russkij jazyk, link=no, ) is an East Slavic language mainly spoken in Russia. It is the native language of the Russians, and belongs to the Indo-European language family. It is one of four living E ...

which was a subject needed at Czech schools until the end of the 1980s. This has had some impact on the language integration of the

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community. The knowledge of Russian may make it easier for

to communicate with locals, and those of the older generation.Czech Armenians: A Small Community With a Strong Potential - Sergey Sumlenny, p. 84 ''Level of Armenian migrants’ knowledge of the Czech language''

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CZECH ARMENIANS: A SMALL COMMUNITY WITH A STRONG POTENTIAL

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Ethnic groups in the Czech Republic Armenia–Czech Republic relations

History

Language

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