Matica

A Matica or Matice or Matitsa is a Slavic concept of a foundation which promotes national culture and gained prominence during the 19th-century romantic nationalism.[1]

In this context, the word matica is translated as queen bee or queen ant.

The matica structure has been particularly used among the West Slavic peoples and South Slavic peoples:

  • Matica srpska, formed in the Austrian Empire in 1826
  • Matice česká, formed in the Austrian Empire in 1831
  • Matice moravská, formed in the Austrian Empire in 1849
  • Matice slezská, formed in Austria-Hungary in 1877
  • Matica hrvatska, formed in the Austrian Empire in 1842
  • Maćica Serbska, formed in Kingdom of Saxony in 1847
  • Matytsia Halytsko-Ruska, formed in the Austrian Empire in 1848
  • Matica slovenská, formed in the Austrian Empire in 1863
  • Slovenska matica, formed in the Austrian Empire in 1864
  • Macierz Polska, formed in Austria-Hungary in 1882
  • Balgarska matitsa, formed in the Ottoman Empire in 1909
  • Matica crnogorska, formed in Serbia and Montenegro in 1993


The term has additionally been used to refer to:

References

  1. ^ Marcel Cornis-Pope; John Neubauer (2004). History of the Literary Cultures of East-Central Europe: Junctures and Disjunctures in the 19th and 20th Centuries. Vol. 3. John Benjamins Publishing. pp. 41–43. ISBN 978-90-272-3455-1. Retrieved 2013-02-11.
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