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Jaroslav Pánek is one of the foremost personalities of the Polish-Czech history studies. Within the framework of his research activities in this field, he draws attention to these principal issues: the relations of a smaller nation towards the history of the larger neighbour; the infrastructure of this research; the composition of research and the specific role of bilateral relations and cross-border regions within the entire scope of one specific national historiography; th importance ofthis research for the present day.