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]
In this context, the word matica is translated as queen bee or queen ant.
The matica structure has been particularly used among the West Slavic peoples and South Slavic peoples:
- Matica srpska, formed in the Austrian Empire in 1826
 - Matice česká, formed in the Austrian Empire in 1831
 - Matice moravská, formed in the Austrian Empire in 1849
 - Matice slezská, formed in Austria-Hungary in 1877
 - Matica hrvatska, formed in the Austrian Empire in 1842
 - Maćica Serbska, formed in Kingdom of Saxony in 1847
 - Matytsia Halytsko-Ruska, formed in the Austrian Empire in 1848
 - Matica slovenská, formed in the Austrian Empire in 1863
 - Slovenska matica, formed in the Austrian Empire in 1864
 - Macierz Polska, formed in Austria-Hungary in 1882
 - Balgarska matitsa, formed in the Ottoman Empire in 1909
 - Matica crnogorska, formed in Serbia and Montenegro in 1993
 
The term has additionally been used to refer to:
- Matica hrvatskih sindikata, Association of Croatian Public Sector Unions
 - The magazine Matica, published by Matica crnogorska
 
References
    
- 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.
 
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