The presented master thesis evaluates an economical and social development of Kutná Hora and Kolín districs that are located in an eastern and a southeastern part of the Central Bohemia region and that are sharing a common administrative border. The thesis is based on a review of a literature about basic terms used in the area of a regional development and a regional polity, policy and politics. In an analytical part of the thesis there is an evaluation of a development of selected socio-economical factors, measured in between years 2005 until 2014. The analysis is based on a data from regional and state official statistics. In the next part of the thesis there is presented a field survey that was done simultaneously in both districs and together with a previous analysis it served as a basis for a SWOT analysis for both districts. Based on a data from all parts of the thesis there are presented suggestions and recommendations for further development of both analysed districts.

The master thesis Periodical Press in the Kutná Hora Region during the period 1918 - 1948 focuses on the changes of the structure of periodical press in the Kutná Hora region in the specified time range. First, the definition of the Kutná Hora region with its demographic and geographic characteristics is provided. As the structure of the periodical press in the Kutná Hora region during the era of the First Republic was based on the situation before the First World War, the landscape of the media of the Kutná Hora region before 1918 is described. Kutná Hora region had been already rich in periodical press of political parties as well as the press of non-political organizations in that time and the same situation applies also for the interwar period. After the Munich agreement until the beginning of the occupation of Czechoslovakia the structure of the political press was changing at first and finally all the periodicals of political parties ceased to exist. By the march 1943, also the press of the non-political organization disappeared. In 1945 the richness of the prewar periodical press situation was not renewed. Most of the political parties shifted their weekly newspapers away from the Kutná Hora region and the non-political organizations were not allowed to publish their magazine due to the lack of...