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THEY HAD BEAUTIFUL BOOTS AND BANANAS THERE. (IN)VISIBLE PRESENCE OF SOVIET SOLDIERS IN A SMALL TOWN

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Koštialová K.
Slovenský národopis (Slovak Ethnology)
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2023
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vol. 71
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issue 2
147 - 164
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The Warsaw Pact armies invaded the state territory of the former Czechoslovakia in August 1968 in order to suppress liberalisation reforms. The event fundamentally transformed further political, democratising, economic, cultural and social processes in Czechoslovakia. The military presence of Soviet intervention troops resulted in the establishment of special garrisons that became de facto foreign and ‘invisible’ zones. Zvolen became one of such places where Soviet soldiers operated, worked and lived. The garrison as well as a purpose built residential district for the members of the Soviet army and their families were situated in Zvolen. The objective of this study is to explain in detail whereabouts in the town their presence was (in)visible and to demonstrate examples of situations in which the soldiers, their families and local citizens came into official and unofficial contact. The study is based on archival materials, contemporary regional print and field research.
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POL TISÍCROČIA V STAVEBNEJ HISTÓRII A TOPOGRAFII ZVOLENSKÉHO PODZÁMKU

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Pišút P., Procházka J.
Studia Historica Nitriensia
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2020
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vol. 24
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issue 2
354 – 399
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The town of Zvolen with a population of over 43 000 is an important regional center and traffic node of Central Slovakia. Although in close neighbourhood of the town, historical Podzámok or Subcastle quarter (Zólyom Várallya in Hungarian) made historically an administrative unit subordinate to Zvolen castle, not to a free royal town. The castle itself was since 13th century also the seat of both the Zvolen County and Zvolen castle domain. In this paper we reconstruct the shape and evolution of Podzámok over time. As a service village of the castle, earliest structures by royal courtyard already existed prior to 1244 AD. They were represented by a toll-house, manor house, barns, royal garden and a fishpond, respectively. Since 1619 AD the habitation became a property of Eszterházi House. Medieval buildings were gradually supplemented by houses of clerical staff, brewery, lord´s pub, butchery, mill, saw-mill, artisan workshops and cottages. Spatial development of Podzámok was not only influenced by military function of the castle, but also by local natural conditions (flooded area of river Slatina). The 18th century was a period of relative economic boom, in contrast to a consecutive 19th century. Besides historical written data, our knowledge of Podzámok is mainly based on little-known plans and maps of 1708-1711, 1753 and 1860, respectively. The last standing buildings of Podzámok – besides the castle itself and the cannon bastion – are those of manorial brewery and distillery.
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ZDOBENÁ KOSTENÁ RUKOVÄŤ Z PUSTÉHO HRADU VO ZVOLENE

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Čierny M., Beljak Pažinová N., Beljak J.
Študijné zvesti
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2020
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vol. 67
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issue 2
371 - 381
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The presented article presents the unique find of a plastically decorated bone handle from the high medieval Pustý hrad castle in Zvolen. Its first part was discovered in 1996 during excavations of V. Hanuliak in the interior of the tower in the eastern line of the Upper castle’s fortification. The second, smaller, part was found in excavation season 2019 in the moat of the same tower. The aim is to carry out a complex analysis of the artefact with relief decoration and its setting in a wider chronological context. The relief motif on the handle represents a figure of a knight in a helm kneeling before another standing figure (a lady?) with her arms around him, pressing his head against her chest. We interpret the image as a love scene on the basis of analogies. From the historical point of view, the helm depicted on the knight’s head is important; it can be dated to the beginning of the 14th century. The decorated handle is a luxurious item which is an expression of table manners of the castle nobility.
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STREDOVEKÁ CESTNÁ SIEŤ V OKOLÍ ZVOLENSKÉHO PUSTÉHO HRADU. ANALÝZA NA ZÁKLADE ANTROPOGÉNNYCH RELIÉFNYCH FORIEM

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Pažinová N., Beljak J., Slámová M., Beláček B.
Študijné zvesti
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2013
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issue 54
153 - 170
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Studied area around the Pustý hrad with forests and two antecedent valleys belongs to the most valuable sites in the Zvolen cadastral area. The castle had important role to keep watch on the entrance routes to the rich mining towns during the medieval ages. Antecedent valleys with steep slopes and rocky cliffs create natural conditions of defence. The castle was particularly vulnerable from the forests to the South, where historic access roads are situated. The main aim of the research is identification of the medieval settlements and historic roads dependence to the selected natural factors and conditions. Relations of the historic settlements to the natural environment are observed in the wider region and historic roads are studied in the closer area, in the forests around the Pustý hrad. They are identified by global position and navigation system in the field. We present location and routing of the roads in relation to the relief attributes (slope, meso-forms configuration) and to the geological substrate, where we indicate resistance to weathering of the rocks, in the small spatial segment. We define in the results the complex of important natural factors as: geological substrate, groundwater and springs, specific attributes of relief which limited location of the settlements and related access roads during the medieval ages.
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OSADA KULTÚRY S MLADOU LINEÁRNOU KERAMIKOU VO ZVOLENE

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Beljak Pažinová N.
Slovenská archeológia (Slovak Archaeology)
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2018
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vol. 66
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issue 2
189 – 217
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Settlement of the young Linear Pottery culture in the Zvolenská kotlina basin was first documented in the mid-20th c. The finds, however, were sporadic and unstratified; they were discovered during major construction works mainly in the southern part of the town’s residential area. The source fund was gradually extended with collected finds from the northern part of the town, the elevated terrace of the Hron river, the site of Podborová, which is famous for prehistorical multicultural settlement. Settlement features are unfortunately, very rare in most cases, since this part of the town was intensely built-up with blocks of flats or family houses and new construction activities are only occasional. First Neolithic features were detected at the site of Podborová as late as the 21st c. A rescue archaeological research carried out by the Department of Archaeology of the Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra in 2011 brought a rich new fund of sources containing pottery fragments, small clay items, chipped stone industry and daub. Although the number of artifacts is considerably high, they were found in the filling of only two features. In spite of this fact, a complex analysis of the discovered finds enabled us to make conclusions regarding relative chronology and genesis of the studied culture in the central Hron river region. Occurrence of the Bükk culture decorative ornament which has not been reliably documented in the central Hron river basin is an important new fact. Distant contacts of the settlement’s population are documented by rich chipped stone industry which (in case of flint and sub-Kraków Jurassic silicite) comes from the sources sometimes a few hundred kilometres far.
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MESTO A KULTÚRNE DEDIČSTVO. ZACHOVÁVANIE, NE/REVITALIZÁCIA, NOVÁ TRADÍCIA?

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Koštialová K.
Etnologické rozpravy (Ethnological Disputes)
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2015
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vol. 22
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issue 1
88 – 97
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The study deals with the cultural heritage of Zvolen applying the issue: ensuring a balance between tradition and modernity. The examples of Deserted castle, Jewish synagogue and others draw attention to non/preservation, non/revitalization of cultural heritage of town and create new traditions that residents consider to be significant for their town. It also deals with the connection of tradition and modernity, new forms of promotion and popularization of selected elements of cultural heritage.
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THE TOWN TO THE UNIVERSITY - THE UNIVERSITY TO THE TOWN (Mesto univerzite - univerzita mestu - pripadova studia vztahu vysokoskolskej institucie a spolocenstva mesta Zvolen)

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Kostialova K.
Slovenský národopis (Slovak Ethnology)
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2010
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vol. 58
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issue 2
176-194
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This paper is concerned with researching the existence of a university and its influence on a small town. The object of investigation was the Technical University (formerly the University of Forestry and Woodworking) and the town Zvolen. The author studied where, how, and by means of what and whom the university was presented in the town and perceived by the town's inhabitants. She investigated the university in the broader context of the town, with emphasis on the university versus town interaction. The author focused on the 'inner' and especially the 'outer' life of the university, its cultural, economic, social capital and their presentation. In this paper the university is perceived as an institution which apart from its inductive-educational, scientific-research and cultural-social functions also fulfils a function of cultural reproduction. Simultaneously it is a bearer of socio-cultural values and traditions, status rankings, and the most varied bonds, communicative relations and meanings. The paper also points to the reasons for the emergence, preconditions, formation and establishment of the university in the town, which are reflected not only in the town's socio-spatial structure but also in the cultural capital of its inhabitants (for example, the educational structure). Contacts and social networks of the town's inhabitants with the university are constructed also through the medium of the TU's employees, who are themselves mainly Zvolen inhabitants, and by a dynamic group of students. An important indicator is also the economic capital which the university represents in a small town. It is expressed in employment opportunities and in the form of other material resources. The existence of the university also brings the town's inhabitants a specific cultural-social and educational dimension which is, as regards the school's orientation, different from other towns. The activities which the school and the students carry out (erecting maypoles, the folk festival, lectures, exhibitions and sporting activities) are not realized exclusively on the university grounds but are rather part of the urban space, and the town's inhabitants take part in them deliberately or casually. The urban society views them positively, as characteristic and typical of Zvolen, which is identified with them.
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