Most of them reside in and around Zelów (81, in Łódź Voivodeship), in the Czech Corner within the southwest portion of Kłodzko County (47, in Lower Silesian Voivodeship) and in the Polish sections of Cieszyn Silesia (61).

North America South America Oceania After the Bohemian loss to Austria at the Battle of White Mountain of 1620, many Czechs adhering to the Moravian Church fled subsequent Austrian Catholic persecution to Poland.

Notable Czech refugee in Poland was philosopher John Amos Comenius.

[4] Within interwar Poland, the main centers of Czechs were Zelów and Kwasiłów in the Wołyń Voivodeship (1.5%).

After the war many Czechs of Volhynia were expelled by the Soviet Union, and forcibly resettled in Czechoslovakia.