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]

The Slavic words “matica” or "matice” have the same etymological origin as Old French “matrice” or Latin “mātrīx” and are synonymous with them; in this context, the meaning is similar to the use of the term “matrice” in Christianity.

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


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.