Perception and reception of the Byzantine heritage in the region of eastern Slovakia and the Podkarpatska Rus, and the formation of religious and cultural identity. Looking for the border between the East and the West. (Frontiers and Boundaries)
Perception and reception of the Byzantine heritage in the region of eastern Slovakia and the Podkarpatska Rus, and the formation of religious and cultural identity. Looking for the border between the East and the West. (Frontiers and Boundaries)

Author(s): Václav Ježek
Subject(s): History, Geography, Regional studies, Theology and Religion, Culture and social structure , Identity of Collectives
Published by: Historický ústav SAV
Keywords: eastern Slovakia; Podkarpatska Rus; Byzantine heritage; formation of religious and cultural identity;
Summary/Abstract: The following contribution discusses the Byzantine religious-cultural heritage in relation to the region of contemporary eastern Slovakia and Subcarpathian Rus (nowadays part of Ukraine). Formerly this region and its vicinity belonged to the Austrian-Hungarian Empire. This area offers many insights into religious history and religious sociology and it was an area where a unique religious tradition developed, which had roots in the Byzantine religious culture, brought to central Europe by saints Cyril and Methodius in the ninth century.

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