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After biggest expansion in its history in 2004 and 2007, the external frontiers of the European Union have undergone significant changes. Regarding the eastern direction, the new linear boundaries coincide with the EU were still existing borders Central (Hungary, Slovakia, Poland), Baltic (Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia) and Balkan (Bulgaria, Romania) with Eastern European countries (Ukraine, Belarus,...
The examined period spanned over more than 150 years. In that time, the surrounding social reality changed in Silesia considerably. These changes also concern the situation of women in Silesia in achieving their social roles. These women have pursued their primary social roles of wives and mothers throughout. It was not easy due to the lack of jobs for women in the industrial environment. Another...
Article deals with the experience of the Slovak Republic in its preparation of accession to the European Union. The author emphasizes possibilities of using this experience to Ukraine. The examples and arguments of successful cooperation between Ukrainian and Slovak institutions are used to underline the importance of such cooperation in advance of Ukraine's European integration.
The Caucasus had an image of hostile country full of bloodthirsty barbarians in the Russian representation of the 18th - 19th century. It became a place of exile of inconvenient people from the intelligentsia. The mountains were absolutely new phenomena for the Russians writers coming from the large plains. The Caucasus of the Russian writers is a creation of their imagination, a place where they...
This article introduces Antal Verancsics´s life, personality and his work. He was a successful diplomat, the high priest and scientist. His work was associated with progress of the late Renaissance in Hungaria. He was in close written contact with his friends and became a part of the international „respublice litterarie”. At the time when he held the offices of the Archbishop of Ostrihom and governor...
The subject of this research article is canonical visitations which are used as a primary resource for researching regional history. The article contains an overview of the historiography which deals with this kind of resource. In addition, the article contains also characteristics of the visitation and conscription registries which can be traced to the 18th century of Abov - Turňa County. The special...
This article deals with the changes in numbers of inhabitants in Košice in the 19th century. The article also provides information about the archive materials and existing literature, which are the foundation (source) of this research. According to the existing resources we can divide the evidence into two parts: while the information about the population of the city from the first half of 19th century...
The report outlines the content, algorithms and phasing of the way towards visa-free regime between Ukraine and the EU and the achievements, results and problems of this process. Visa policies and practices of the Slovak Republic to Ukraine are considered as a part of the EU policy. It also includes statistics and results of the visa issuance monitoring all over Ukraine, with the accent on the Consulate...
This paper presents the concept of the research project which is investigating a lingual-communicative behaviour of the Slovak youth in Slovakia and Hungary, namely in a situational context of intra-ethnical usage of the spoken Slovak language. This concept characterizes shortly the research project, introduces a methodological framework of this project, describes selective groups by means of the...
Answers of 200 young people (Slovaks) from Hungary and from nationally mixed area of Slovakia on the 10 values list (personal values, social values and ethnic values) offered opportunity to analyse the preference of native language in these two groups of respondents. The main difference between these groups was manifested in the ethnic values section (native language, nationality) which are preferred...
The main purpose of this contribution is to publicize research results of the lingual-communicative behaviour of the Slovak youth in Slovakia and Hungary, which were obtained in both named countries in 2010. We analyse an indicator of the minority ethno-cultural development, as well as three selected components of it – individually and in reciprocal interrelations, as well. The referential framework...
Analysis of 200 young people (Slovaks) from Hungary and from nationally mixed area of Slovakia answers on the scales measuring attitudes to the functions of native language in two specific situational contexts (family, school) led to the identification of the main differences: attitudes of the Slovaks in Hungary are less positive as the attitudes of comparative group and the order of preferred functions...
The contribution deals with the analysis of the open questions in the questionnaire Linguistic behaviour of young people (Slovak ones in Hungary and Hungarian ones in Slovakia), which focused on their verbal behaviour in family and school. The analysis is based on several components connected with the expression of communicative intentions (congratulation and request/excuse), register expressions...
An intention of this paper is to present results of empirical research into the lingual-communication behaviour of the Slovak youth in Slovakia and Hungary. This research was conducted in both countries during the 2010. The investigation focused on spoken expressions of the Slovak language in surroundings which are typical for the application of the written language as a form of a social contact in...
This study characterises the socio-cultural life of German minority in Spiš region during 1920’s and 1930’s. The author surveys and follows the aspects of culture which were most influential at the time and based on description of cultural life in Spiš region. The author analyses many cultural organisations of German minority and their work in this time.
The paper deals with problems of the Hungarian minority in Czechoslovakia and Slovakia in the 20th century. It monitors the perception of history on the example of anti-Hungarian measures after the Second World War on the basic of results of sociology – socio-psychological research of Institute of Social Sciences in Košice.
In the present study we analyse the degree of emotional and social intelligence of women and men. The research was carried out on the sample of 650 respondents from Prešov and Košice region. The results are dominated by an absence of significant sex differences in emotional and social intelligence. Significant correlations were also detected between the two examined constructs.
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