The collection of Jan and Meda Mládek contains works made by Frantisek Kupka and Otto Gutfreund and modern arts of the 60th, 70th and 80th years. Collection of Jindřich Chalupecký was created between years 1988-1989 to help sick author. It contains the works of Czech and Slovak authors mostly from the 70th and 80 years. Collection of Jiří and Běla Kolář was originally a private set without thematic focus. It includes works from various time periods and Czech and foreign authors.

The Special Collection comprises digital reprints of the Institute's old and rare books in Greek and other European languages. Most of the 302 titles are traveller’s accounts or works on the history, civilisation, folk life, religion and literature of the Hellenic and Balkan region. The oldest and rarest book in the collection is a 1604 edition of the 'Histoire de Georges Castriot Surnomé Scanderbeg, Roy d’Albanie', written (in French) by Jacques de Lavardin and printed at Saint-Gervais.

The collection includes rare photographs and postal cards from the period 1904-1918. Subjects cover mainly the military conflicts, which devastated Macedonia in the beginning of the 20th c., the Fighters (Makedonomachoi) and several battles that took place during the Balkan Wars and the World War I. The collection is an important source of military history.

The collection comprises 402 maps showing the region of SE Europe (Greece, Asia Minor, Serbia, Albania, Bulgaria, Turkey etc.) during Antiquity, the Roman and Byzantine Empire, Middle Ages, Ottoman Empire and 20th century.

The photographic material of the archive emanates from various sources. The main subject of the collection is Greek Vlachs, whereas an important part includes the unknown -until recently- artistic creations of brothers Manakia, the photographers who were the pioneers of the cinema in the Balkans. The collection depicts scenes from the late 19th and the early of the 20th century; included are photographs of typical patters of settlements and Vlah population around 1900. Considering the collection as a total, helps reversing several stereotypical theories as well as understanding the various cultural, social and economic identities of the Vlach populations.

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