Torsello, Davide - Pappová, Melinda: Social Networks in Movement. Time, interaction and interethnic spaces in Central Eastern Europe - Nostra Tempora 8. (Somorja-Dunaszerdahely, 2003)
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The District State Archive in Šaľa and regional research 295 role of the Archive concerns the control and the supervision of the sources producing archival documents; it also approves of the discarding of documents from all institutes and organisations on the territory of Galanta, Šaľa and Dunajská Streda districts. Since 1974, the Archive has been located in the building of the old Jesuit college and residence, later rebuilt as a castle.2 Only since moving to this building has accessibility of the documents to the wider public become possible. Among the principal archival sources of the Archive, apart from the town archives mentioned above (Šamorih and Seredj, we find the archival documents of state institutions established after the foundation of Czechoslovakia in 1918. The richest source of information regarding the history of the region in the period between the two wars is the material of the District Council of Šaľa. The district councils were organs of state administration; the district board of representatives, which was an autonomous, electoral office, worked there as well. The district council had a wide range of competences. In the early times of Czechoslovakia it dealt with security, cultural, economic and other fields. The archival documents originating in its offices can be used for any research purpose in the social sciences. The material of the District Council in the town of Šamorľn from the period 1923-1938 has also been preserved in a good state and it provides rich data on the villages in the Šamorih district. Fewer archival documents have been preserved in the District Council in Galanta (1923- 1938) and in the District Council in Dunajská Streda. In the first case the damage was caused by the events of the Second World War; in the latter by human carelessness. Rich information and data can be obtained from the sources of the district councils after 1945. They belong to the most frequently searched archival data, providing a picture of postwar Czechoslovakia, of the country’s political orientation and aims. These documents reflect social changes since a large part of the material deals with the state’s interference into institutions of private property (among others, they document
