A Matica or Matice or Matitsa is a Slavic concept of a foundation which promotes national culture and gained prominence during the 19th-century romantic nationalism.
The matica structure has been particularly used among the West Slavic peoples and South Slavic peoples:
Matica srpska, formed in Hungary in 1826, moved to current Serbia in 1864Matice česká, formed in Bohemia in 1831Matice moravská, formed in MoraviaMatice slezská, formed in Czech SilesiaMatice Čech, Moravy a Slezska formed in the Czech Republic in 1995Matica hrvatska, formed in Croatia in 1842Matica slovenská, formed in Slovakia in 1863Slovenska matica, formed in Slovenia in 1864Balgarska matitsa, formed in the Ottoman Empire in 1909Matica crnogorska, formed in Montenegro in 1993The term has additionally been used to refer to:
Matica hrvatskih sindikata, Association of Croatian Public Sector UnionsThe magazine Matica, published by Matica crnogorska