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The article focuses on the most significant turning points in the development of the Romany ethnic group within different political and social regimes of the 20th century. Besides the persecutive nature of the regime's attitude and a unique single-sided regulation of their status within the interwar Czechoslovakia, the paper follows their possibilities of cultural and social self-realization and their...
The article is a summary of characteristic of London retribution decree and Retribution Act No. 33/1945 Col. of Slovak National Council in epoch of post war Czechoslovakia republic. Major problem of this study, taking into account wide scope of this problem doesn't include whole problem of post war retribution, but to focus at certain factors which affected creation and application of retribution...
The contribution concerns the question of the Slovak-Hungarian relationships in 2008. It analyzes various factors, which influenced development of those relationships in 2008. It pays attention to policy of the Party of the Hungarian coalition and some causes, which influenced development of Slovak-Hungarian relationships, mostly theme of autonomy, activities of the Slovak national party and its top...
Hellenistic science was centred in the city of Alexandria in Ptolemaic Egypt. It flourished there for three centuries. Many of works of its representatives were preserved to our times. These works show that predominant majority of the ancient scholars used observation and deductive reasoning exclusively to explain natural phenomena. They did not verify the theoretical conclusions of their reasoning...
Undoubtedly the socioeconomic development of each and every country is dependent on its human resources and work force. The more skilled and professional the human resources of a society are, the higher the efficiency and profitability of the country will be. However, women who populate almost half of the world do not fairly favour equal opportunities to play their function in the development of their...
From the early middle Ages until the 18th century the town of Leutschau (Levoca) was one of the five most important centres of commerce, crafts and guilds in Slovakia, its fame extending as far as Hungary. 42 guilds are known to have been active in the town. The first known guild (1470) in Leutschau was that of the blacksmiths. Unfortunately the archives of Leutschau have not been preserved in their...
Organisation of labour units, as well as selection of people, was similar in Slovak republic in the period of 1945 - 1948. People in commissions - functionaries of local offices and HSLS together with police officers - mainly aimed on selection of gypsies and personally uncomfortable people. Men in units, e. g. work avoiding, so called asocials or black-marketers, were employed in building railroad...
When analyzing the results, the authors started from various studies and researches, which dealt with the questions of the quality of life from the aspect of unemployment, where, for example according to Fedakova (2005) and Kentos (2004), it was confirmed that loss of a job has a negative impact on the quality of life (or satisfaction with one's life). It can be said that the long term unemployment...
Establishment of Czechoslovak Republic as one of the states formed out of the debris of Austro-Hungarian Empire had a profound impact upon political, economic and social situation of Slovakia. Besides Czechs and Slovaks, Czechoslovakia became also a home of several ethnic communities. In Slovakia, the most numerous and politically significant ethnic group was Hungarian minority. The paper, in a concise...
Attitudes of German and Hungarian inhabitants who lived in Slovakia were not constant to Czechoslovak Republic. They changed under the influence of political progress. The main factors were geographical heterogeneity and different political orientations. The most important difference was between members of German minority who lived in Bratislava (gathered in Karptendeutsche Partei) and Germans who...
The first two translations of Tripartitum to Hungarian language were elaborated several years after the publication of the first Latin version. The publication in Hungarian language was enforced with linguistic needs, because the high magistrates frequently did not speak Latin. The first Hungarian translation from the works of Weres Balazs is not only a translation, but it is coupled with royal edicts...
Every empire is certainly erected in basis with a sentiment of superiority over the rest of world. This sentiment is based upon what scholars denominate ethnocentrism. To a greater or lesser degree, all civilizations are more and less ethnocentric at time valorises certain values in detriment of others. Nowadays, the Anglo-Empire (primarily conformed by US and UK) puts emphasis on the terrorism as...
Responses from working women (N=10 619) from 24 European countries (ESS R2) were analysed in this paper. The list of analysed characteristics comprised: female labour supply (measured as number of weekly hours worked) and a list of its potential determinants such as income, education, present life circumstances (children living at home, unpaid help available) and family background (whether mother...
One of the main ideas of this paper is an effort to capture the region of Eastern Slovakia in the World War II from the perspective of state and agricultural production. The first part follows the general agricultural situation in Slovakia, shortly before and during the formation of the Slovak Republic. The second part has a regional character. Considerable attention is devote to the characterization...
With exception of triumphant victory over Persian Empire, there is no more illustrious period in history of Athens than a relatively short life of Athenian Federacy. An explosive efflorescence of Athens in fields of politics, economy and arts was achieved only rarely in human history. Athenians were successful to a large extent thanks to reforms and leadership of Pericles, who, in environment of dynamic...
Despite of fact that the books by an important Italian writer, journalist and politician Igino Giordani (1894 ' 1980) exist in the Slovak translation, his personality is rather little known in Slovakia. Knowing his personality and his ideas can be beneficial not only for literature but also for history, politics and society. Giordani was born in 1894 in Tivoli. He was a Catholic writer and journalist,...
Managers' thinking is based on a mental model developed over years. Elements of this model are derived from the experience, observation and rules referring to the market phenomena. There are also numerous areas of ignorance and uncertainty. Even the important features of the distant future are only hypothetical. In order to get rid of the uncertainty managers use intuitive thinking. It contains the...
(Slovak title:Romovia na juznom Slovensku na zaklade celouhorskeho supisu z roku 1893 (problemy pocetnosti, narodnostnej prislusnosti). Brief and summary facts about Romany people continually settled in the south Slovakia are given in the contribution, especially in region inhabited by Hungarian minority from Middle Ages. Main priority is to follow multiplicity, language and nationality of Romany...
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...