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HISTORY OF SLOVAKIA Some information about slovakia. Official Name: Slovak Republic Area : 49 035 km2 The population: 5 52 3 000 Capital: Bratislava Official language : Slovak Currency : Euro ( € ) Highest point: The Gerlach Peak (2,655 m a.s.l .) Continent : Europe
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Official Name: Slovak Republic Area:49 035 km2 The population:5 523 000 Capital:Bratislava Official language: Slovak Currency: Euro ( € ) Highest point: TheGerlachPeak (2,655 m a.s.l.) Continent: Europe The most important waters: Dunaj, Váh, Hron, Ipeľ someInformationaboutslovakia
the territory of Slovakia has been settled from the oldest times intime of Migration of Nations the first Slavs arrived here in 833 the Great Moravian Empireestablished likethefirst common state of the Slovak and Czechs ancestors History
after the fall of Great Moravia the Old Hungarian tribes invaded the territory of Slovakia • the territory of Slovakia with its inhabitants became part of the Kingdom of Hungary for the long thousand years
19th century Slovaks, forthe first time, formulated their own political program the First Worldwar
the independent Slovak State was establishedin 1939 as an outcome of international events however the end of the Second World War brought about restoration of Czechoslovakia on 1st January 1993, theindependent Slovak Republic
623 - 658 Samo`s Dominion 833 - 907 Great Moravian Empire 1000 - 1918 Hungarianstate 1428 - 1443 TheHussitesinvadedtheKingdomofHungary Interestingyears
1536 - the Parliament of the Kingdom of Hungary promoted Pressburg(now Bratislava) toCapital of the Kingdom • 1787 - AntonBernolák codified the first literary form of the Slovak language
1918 – the first Czechoslovak Republic • 1944 -Slovak National Uprising broke out in central Slovakia (Banská Bystrica)
1993 - Slovakiabecamethe independent and souvereignstate on 1st January • 2004 - on 1st May Slovakia became a memberoftheEuropeanUnion • 2009 - on 1st January, theSlovak Republic adoptedthe single EuropeancurrencyEURO and thusbecameoneofthecountriesoftheEuropeanMonetaryUnion