{"id":15363,"date":"2020-05-12T23:21:24","date_gmt":"2020-05-12T20:21:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/go-to.rest\/blog\/transcarpathian-slovaks\/"},"modified":"2020-05-12T23:21:26","modified_gmt":"2020-05-12T20:21:26","slug":"transcarpathian-slovaks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/go-to.rest\/blog\/en\/transcarpathian-slovaks\/","title":{"rendered":"Transcarpathian Slovaks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
The vast majority of representatives of the Slovak minority live in the Western part of Transcarpathia, namely in Uzhgorod<\/a>, Mukachevsky<\/a>, Perechinskomu<\/a> and In the districts of the city of Velikiye Luki<\/a>.Some of them are indigenous people of the region, others came here in the XVII-XIX centuries as a result of migration from the Slovak regions Hungarians<\/a>. This flow of migrants accelerated after 1919, when the region was part of Czechoslovakia.<\/p>\n\n At the beginning of the XX century, more than 12 thousand Slovaks lived in Transcarpathia. In 1930, the number of Chekhov<\/a> and Slovaks in our region increased to 35 thousand people.<\/p>\n\n In 1945-1947 part of the Slovak population
\nTranscarpathia re-emigrated to the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic, due to
\nthen the Slovaks left some localities completely. According to the 1959 census
\namong the Slovaks in Transcarpathia, there are a little more than 13 thousand people.<\/p>\n\n In 2001, there were 5,695 Slovaks in Transcarpathia. Most of the Slovaks live in the city of Uzhgorod<\/a> (more than 2 thousand people). The most Slovak-speaking village in the Transcarpathian region is Storozhnitsa<\/a>, where almost 20% of the population speaks Slovak.<\/p>\n\n In recent years, the Slovak minority in Transcarpathia has been rapidly declining. A large number of Slovaks emigrate to Slovakia and other EU countries in search of a better life.<\/p>\n
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