Historica Olomucensia vol. 48 (2015), 13-42 | DOI: 10.5507/ho.2015.001
The article is focused on the Benedictine colonisation in North-Western Bohemia with emphasis on Břevnov provostries in Police nad Metují nad Broumov. The beginning of this process is traditionally dated to 1213 that is why the early 13th century is a starting point of this paper as well. The author deals with the development of both provostries and attempts to describe mutual relations between them and their change in time. Moreover, he also tries to outline a position of regions Policko and Broumovsko within larger Břevnov monastic domain by using a retrospective method. Between years 1213 and 1322, North-Western Bohemia under the Břevnov administration...
Historica Olomucensia vol. 48 (2015), 43-67 | DOI: 10.5507/ho.2015.002
The article shows another important life period of Moravian warrior John Jiskra from Brandýs. After the end of Hungarian civil war he gained the throne for Ladislaus Posthumous and protected his interests together with his tutor Roman king Frederick IV. During the years 1445-1447 John Jiskra controlled the Kingdom together with other six powerful noblemen. His enemy Jan Hunyadi supported the constitution Monarchy in Hungary. He was voted as a gubernator. Jiskra slowly lost his influence on the political administration. He still held the vast areas in the Upper Hungary on behalf of the under-age king Ladislaus. He successfully thwarted the attempts...
Historica Olomucensia vol. 48 (2015), 69-97 | DOI: 10.5507/ho.2015.003
In the beginning of the study the author deals with a specification of Asian battlefields during the American War of Independence and shows various approaches to understanding this conflict and its relationship with other conflicts in Asia in the observed period. Then, the crucial information about battle events on land and also naval Asian battlefields are presented. It is stated that the evaluation of results is used to be marked by the perspective of British-French fight in India. However, the battle, which is followed, is not only a component in the chain of British-French battles for India but a conflict of which results seemed to have the larger...
Historica Olomucensia vol. 48 (2015), 99-109 | DOI: 10.5507/ho.2015.004
Catholic Congresses were organized in Bohemian and Moravian dioceses since the end of the 19th century. In 1901 Olomouc Archbishop Theodor Kohn decided to organize a Catholic congress in Olomouc archdiocese. The complicated national situation led him to the decision to divide the congress in two parts: for Czech inhabitants in Kroměříž and for German inhabitants in Olomouc. A programme, a choice of speakers or topics were created in a cooperation with archbishop's curia, which took care of non-political meaning of congresses as well as non-preferential choosing archdiocese's speakers. Both congresses were very successful, gave the religious impression...
Historica Olomucensia vol. 48 (2015), 111-121 | DOI: 10.5507/ho.2015.005
For decades, the Horn of Africa has attracted the attention of world powers, especially because of its strategic position on the geopolitical map, which enables it to control a strategically important region in the Middle East and in the Indian Ocean. Since the opening of the Suez Canal, the whole region has become one of the most important sea waterways connecting European, African and Asian trade routes. French colonial activities in the Horn started around the same time and culminated in the construction of a strategic railway from Djibouti to Addis Ababa. All of the above-mentioned aspects played a very significant role during the time of decolonization....
Historica Olomucensia vol. 48 (2015), 123-140 | DOI: 10.5507/ho.2015.006
The Czechoslovak Foreign Institute was tasked with care for countrymen of Czechoslovak origin abroad. Nevertheless, it was not an official state office but only an organisation with a participation of few ministries. Compatriots from Subcarpathian Rus did not receive a proper care during the First Republic. Attempts of the institute, individuals as well as some organisations to rectify this state were not successful. As a result, a free sphere of Hungarian and other anti-Czechoslovak hostile agitation negatively influenced Subcarpathian countrymen who subsequently shaped the development in their former homeland in an anti-Czechoslovak spirit. This...
Historica Olomucensia vol. 48 (2015), 141-152 | DOI: 10.5507/ho.2015.007
The unusual conflict between Germany and Austria in the interwar period resulted from the effort of Chancellor of Germany Adolf Hitler to achieve the Anschluss as soon as possible. In Nazi ideas, Austria ought to be degraded from a sovereign state to a position of a normal district. The Cabinet led by Engelbert Dollfuss refused the Nazi vision of annexation of the alpine republic to Germany and demanded politically correct treatment. Nevertheless, Hitler did not accept that and decided to reach his goal through intentional provocation. However, nor was it successful. Austria still resisted to German demands but from time to time they were willing to...
Historica Olomucensia vol. 48 (2015), 153-172 | DOI: 10.5507/ho.2015.008
A troop embattled under the State Defense Guard in the political district Žamberk became the first battalion SOS with its leader major František Kynych. The study describes origins and activities of the State Defense Guard which had to protect state borders in the most critical period, i.e. in 1938. Furthermore, the author examines arms and gear, motorization, logistic security and other elements which were a part of troops' work. The article also includes pictures of some armed conflicts in cross-border judicial districts Králíky and Rokytnice in the Orlické Mountains. The aim of the research is a detailed description of activities of the State Defense...
Historica Olomucensia vol. 48 (2015), 173-191 | DOI: 10.5507/ho.2015.009
The study deals with aspects of security forces in the nationally mixed region of Těšínsko from the restoration of Czechoslovak administration in the spring 1945 to first months of the Communist regime in 1948. Based on a comparison of "official" history recorded in commemorative administrative records, the text describes not only a development of the regional security situation but also gradual politicization and ideologization of police service under the influence of the Communist Party.In the immediate post-war period, it is possible to observe a large degree of personal as well as structural continuity with the era before the year 1938. The...
Historica Olomucensia vol. 48 (2015), 193-207 | DOI: 10.5507/ho.2015.010
This study is focused on researching the potential application of the theoretical framework of Hayden White in analysing selected historical narrations by Milan Stanislav Ďurica and František Vnuk. These two historians were the main protagonists of the Slovak exile historiography. The article deals with the application of the following White's concepts: the formation of historical narration, historical subjects, the meaning of the metaphor in historical narration and historical truth. In analysing of historians texts author concerned with the ideological position of a historian, the relationship between historical narration and ideology. The problem...
Historica Olomucensia vol. 48 (2015), 209-235 | DOI: 10.5507/ho.2015.011
The paper aims at the basic and initial characteristic of official relations between governments of the Czechoslovak Republic and Australia, particularly during the Communist era in Czechoslovakia in the second half of the 20th century. It also examines some concrete types and forms of mutual interest of both states in each other as well as preferred areas and issues of Australian life and social events, which the Czechoslovak Communist government observed. It is a probe into selected interests of both official state governments and their institutes.The basic and up till now not fully exploited primary sources come from collections of the Ministry...
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Historica Olomucensia vol. 48 (2015), 261-272 | DOI: 10.5507/ho.2015.017
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