Matica

Matica (such as " Mother Fund" ) is the name of the Slavic clubs in the Habsburg monarchy arose in the 19th century to support literary activity, dissemination of useful writings, and in general to promote national interests or by analogy to the designation of other similar Slavic clubs.

The oldest is the Matica Serbian, which was founded in 1826 in Pest and relocated in 1864 from Novi Sad. In addition, then emerged a Czech in Prague ( 1830), a Croatian in Zagreb (1842 ), an Upper Sorbian in Bautzen (1847 ), a Ukrainian in Lviv ( 1848), a Moravian in Brno (1853 ), a Dalmatian in Zara (1862 ), a Slovak in Martin ( 1863), a Slovenian in Ljubljana (1864 ), a Polish in Lviv ( 1880) and Lower Sorbian in Kottbus (1880 ).

The word is derived from the Slavic word for mother (mat ( i)) and generally means literally as " important maternal / nut-like something". For the name of a club comes the word from Serbian and Croatian ( matica ), where the name meaning " queen bee, source " of the word comes from matica. The Slovak ( matica ) and Czech word ( matice ) was taken in the meaning club under Serbian model. The Polish name ( Macierz ) actually means motherland, fatherland or matrix in terms of soil, etc. The Upper Sorbian correspondence is Maćica.