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The District State Archive in Šaľa and regional research 293 Appendix 2 The District State Archive in Šaľa and regional research Veronika Nováková The history of the District State Archive in Šaľa, like that of the other district archives in Slovakia, dates back to the 1950s. In Slovakia archives extend back to the Middle Age, however we can only speak about an institutional archival system after the year 1950. The oldest archives on the territory of modern Slovakia were the so-called autonomous archives, town archives, county archives and church archives. Each of them basically had been preserving the archival documents of its originator. In the 18,h and 19lh century, at the beginning of the historical research, the autonomous and the church archives became objects of historical research. Whereas in Europe the history of the institutions of archives as centres of historical research begins in the first half of the 19,h century, on the territory of Slovakia it is only in the early 20m century that we find an organised network of archives independent on their originators. The Czechoslovak centralised system of archives adopted the model of the former Soviet Union. Later, particularly regarding the analyses of archival documents and the definition of the roles of archives, it sought a theoretical support in the French archival traditions. As in the Soviet Union, the entire system of the Czechoslovak archives was subordinated to the Ministry of Internal Affairs. The events after 1989 did not bring significant changes to the centralised system, although the law on archives was amended in December 1991. This brought only slight changes to the structure of the archives; the word “state" has been removed.
