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The Czechs (Czech: Češi, pronounced [ˈtʃɛʃɪ]; singular Czech, masculine: Čech ⓘ, singular feminine: Češka [ˈtʃɛʃka]), or the Czech people (Český lid), are a West Slavic ethnic group and a nation native to the Czech Republic in Central Europe, who share a common ancestry, culture, history, and the Czech language.
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If in sense of states, then yes, Czechs are the most "germanized" slavic people. If based on DNA than no, that would be the slavic people that live in basically what was East Germany (more precisely if you would draw line from western edge of Czechia towards eastern part of borders between Denmark and Germany).
If you care about DNA than Germans are not any less slavic than Czechs. DNAwise Czechs and Bavarians are identical. It is said that we are both mix of 30% slavic, 30% germanic and 30% celtic ancestery. Former East Germany is basicly germanized western slavic land.
Aug 21, 2018 · While the rest of the country and its people adhered to the newly imposed German language, wandering actors and puppet-masters spoke through the puppets in their native Slavic tongue.
May 3, 2023 · -37% Slavic peoples. -25% Western Europeans, mostly French, German, and northern Italy. -9% Balkans. -9% Semitic, (arabs and jews) -7% Germans and Scandinavians. -3% from other random parts of the world. -10% are “purebred” Czechs whose genetics are almost exclusively found in the northern Czech Basin (české kotlině.)
The Czech people were not considered German, but today's Czech Republic is more or less territorially the same as the old Kingdom of Bohemia, which crown was held by the Austrian Emperors. At the time of the map you link, Bohemia was politically and culturally German despite much/most of the population being ethnically Czech.
Czech is a member of the West Slavic sub-branch of the Slavic branch of the Indo-European language family. This branch includes Polish, Kashubian, Upper and Lower Sorbian and Slovak. Slovak is the most closely related language to Czech, followed by Polish and Silesian. [9] The West Slavic languages are spoken in Central Europe.
