Andrew Stroehlein on Nostr: TIL - back in the day, perhaps even into the late 19th century(?), “many Slovak ...
TIL - back in the day, perhaps even into the late 19th century(?), “many Slovak Lutherans truly considered themselves to be Czech and assumed that their Church had been established by the Hussites in the fifteenth century.” So, "Czech" for them then just meant "Lutheran."
This maybe explains a lot for me personally, like why all my Slovak-speaking family always called themselves "Czechs" and said they spoke "Czech."
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