Forced Removals in The Border Area of The Ústí Region And Their Impact in The Last Century
Abstract: The article briefly describes the historical background of the first half of the last century and its influence on emigration and immigration in the Bohemian borderlands, especially in the Ústí nad Labem region. It focuses first on the main political trends of the border region's inhabitants and the Czechoslovak government's response to these challenges, and then on the actual growth and decline of the population in the districts of the Ústí nad Labem region and the municipalities that disappeared not only as a result of the Second World War but also as a result of the totalitarian regime's rule and its care for the region. From the scale of the region, the article then focuses on the detail of the Teplice district and the analysis of the population there before and after World War II. Changes in its population density, marital status, nationality, predominant type of livelihood and religion are traced, up to an analysis of three specific villages – Mikulov, Mstišov and Břežánky. This section traces the gradual urban development of the settlements in question, from mapping on a stable cadastre, through several historical aerial photographs over the years, to the 1966 depiction on a property registration map. The population itself, the structure by occupation with emphasis on the predominant occupations before the war, and the historical structure of population density in the selected settlements themselves are also traced.
