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The essay concentrates on interpretation of historical colonisation processes of today's Serbian and Rumanian Banat where the Banat Military Frontier was formed in the 18th century. Formation of the Banat Military Frontier inspired transmigration of settlers from the entire Habsburg Empire who protected the borderline. Numerous groups of Czech citizens who had been settling down there since the second half of the 18th century migrated together with them. The essay explains the origin of Czech enclaves/diasporas. It brings new facts to the existing knowledge on the emergence of Czech-populated settlements (e.g. St. Elene, Ablian and Kruscica). The author drew from archival research in the State Archive of Rumanian Timişoara and the Regional Archive of Bela Crkva in Vojvodina. Newly located archival resources can uproot certain traditional myths that appear in ethnological literature on the Czech minority in Banat.
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The study is based on the thesis that the members of Czech communities abroad who left their country before the period of the 'National Awakening' imbibed the national idea thanks to the 'assistance to fellow countrymen' in the interwar period. This was motivated by the effort to 'save' the communities of fellow countrymen from being assimilated into the majority society of South-Eastern Europe. The following article aims to apply constructivist approach to nation into the study of the phenomenon of fellow countrymen. Ethnicity only comes to the foreground of the organizing criteria of these collective entities after the arrival of assistants. The first part of the study presents the organizing mechanism of sending the assistants on the example of the Bulgarian community Gorna Mitropolja. The other part represents an effort to conceptualize in a broader way the constructivist approach. The communication network of the state and the foreign out-migration therefore rested on the mission-evangelizing basis. The communities involved accepted, besides the already existing territorial and linguistic identification, also another aspect of the collective identity - the identification with the shared past. Only after the application of the 'ethnic diction' that stressed the common origin we can consider the Protestant groups abroad as ethnic communities of Czech fellow countrymen.
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Veliko Srediste is a settlement situated in Serbian Banat, in Voivodina, near the town of Vrsac. This contribution tries to find an answer to the issues relating to ethnogenesis of the Czech speaking inhabitants, who have been neglected by ethnologists, anthropologists, or historians researching the Czech speaking communities abroad. The contribution is based on the new hitherto not used resources provided by the archive of the Synodic Council in Prague as well as by the Regional History Archive in the village of Bela Crkva. The author discovered other important resources in the location concerned where he did large field research work. Taking into consideration those resources, one can refute the theses on ethnogenesis of Czechs in Velike Srediste. Such theses assert Protestants from Svata Helena, a Czech village in Rumania founded after 1820, to have been the first Czech colonists. In his contribution, the author interprets transmigration of the Czech speaking inhabitants as the process of migration consisting of three compact colonization waves reaching their peak with the large 'Moravian' colonization wave in the 1950s. He records the historical development of Protestants since the end of the World War I, trying to explain the assimilation of Czech Roman Catholics within a larger group of German Roman Catholics.
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