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Abstract The article analyses the constituent parts of the identity of the Evangelical Church Augsburg Confessions (Lutheran) in Cieszyn Silesia from the 2nd half of the 19th century to 1945 years. The statutory time frames have allowed to trace the correlates of national culture, which is sourced in 19th century national movements. They led to the construction of a retrospective national history, in which in first place was a unique position of the Polish language and the confessional identity was defined in terms of Polishness. This predetermined national-religious pattern set for a period of about 100 years the nature of the Lutheran Church in Cieszyn Silesia. The article, in addition to the theoretical part, was supplemented with a study of the author's own archival documents of the seven Zaolzian Protestant congregations.

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