Czechs

Czechs (also spelt Tzechs, Tschechs, Cesks, Cheskians, &c.), the most westerly branch of the great Slavic family of nations. In the latter half of the 5th century A.D. the Czechs migrated from their lands in Carpathia, on the upper Vistula, to the country now known as Bohemia. Other Slavic tribes came too; but in the course of time the Czechs gained such an ascendancy that, in the 9th century, their name was commonly applied to the whole Slavic population of Bohemia (q.v.). Here, in Moravia, and in other parts of Austria, the Czechs now number in all some 7,000,000.