This study attempts to illustrate the document production of the Faculty of Arts of Comenius University in Bratislava in the significant first phase of its rich history in the years 1920 to 1950. In this period, Comenius University in Bratislava underwent a fundamental change - its de jure demise and the subsequent establishment of the Slovak University in Bratislava. Paradoxically, however, this only had a slight effect on the internal organization and it did not fundamentally change documentation practices at the faculty. The article focuses not only on the written production of the faculty, but, in relation to the legislation in force at the time, it clarifies the faculty's activities and the functioning of its governing bodies and their mutual relations and powers. The work is based on information that was drawn mainly from preserved archival materials, which are now stored in the permanent archival custody and administration of the Archives of Comenius University in Bratislava. We also drew on archive documents from the National Archive in Prague.
The present-day national structure of Slovakia is, among others, the result of a long-term population and residential development, to a high degree conditioned by migrations, but also by political interventions from above that also influences the formation of linguistic frontiers and regions. The study aims to present a general overview of the ways how ethnicity (ethnic identity) was perceived from the point of view of statistics (official state censuses) to characterize the basic sources for the study of ethnicities in Slovakia and thus to sketch the ethnic composition of Slovakia at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century according to the atributes valid and observed in the studied period.
The administrative work of criminal proceedings is a rich source of information on the life of the population of a given region. Although many regulations were issued as early as the 1850s, they continued to be valid during the First Czechoslovak Republic. Changes in society and the increasing pace of life also forced an acceleration in criminal proceedings. In 1936, so-called block criminal proceedings were introduced by the government. During the Second World War, the form of accounting for criminal activity forced new regulations. An examination of documents of the former District Office of Humpolec revealed various types of documents that were typical for this kind of administrative work. Although the most frequently used term is criminal register, the meaning of it was not always clear.