Confraternity of the Żagań Convent of the Canons Regular from 1401

In this article, the authors present an edition of preserved and to date unpublished documents demonstrating the origin of confraternities between Convents of Canons Regular in Żagań and in Kłodzko. The documents were issued on 5 and 19 March 1401.

The article describes the role of the problem of national minorities (Poles in Zaolzie, Czechs mainly in Kłodzko, and Slovaks in Polish parts of Spiš and Orava) in Polish-Czechoslovakian relations during the communist era. In the light of the author’s research, the nationalist heritage of border disputes from the first half of the 20th century influenced relations between the two countries also in later years, although the minority problem in their mutual relations was marginal and officially did not exist for both sides.

Národnostní menšiny v polsko-československých vztazích v letech 1948–1989