SLOVAKIA STATE

Slovakia state has been selected by Roberto Amati in relation to the real history of european integration, then enlisted in the EUROPEAN STATES category, accompanied by own fact SHEET useful to the comprehension, completed of historical MAPS AND IMAGES or with a direct linking to the related Blog contents dedicated to the entire history of european integration and the future of Europe.

Slovakia is an aeternitas of the history of european integration that will have influence on the future of Europe. The name given by the inhabitants is SLOVENSKA REPUBLIKA with the official national languages of Slovak (belonging to the group of Slavic family) spoken by the citizens who today live in the parliamentary Republic of Slovakia, together with the minorities residents of Czechs, Poles, Russians, Ukrainians and Hungarians speaking others Slavic languages or Hungarian.

Slovakia is situated in central-eastern Europe above the Pannonian Plain: its western borders are delimited by Austria and the Czech Republic, while Slovakia confines on the North with Poland, on East with Ukraine and on South with Hungary. Its territory is mostly mountainous at North all along the Carpatian chain sourrounding the country that gave origins to the several rivers (Vah, Nitra, Hron, Hornald and Laborec) tributaries of Danube river, while the Odra and the Opava rivers erupt into the Baltic Sea. The climate is rigid continental, especially at east towards the Russian-Sarmatic Plain, whereas it is mild weather in the river valleys towards the Pannonian Plain.

The history of Slovakia started with the first settlements of Danubians people (as you can read in this article) who had been followed along the ancient times by the ancient Celts in Neolitich age, then by the Boi tribe of Celts and in the I century AD by the Bavari tribe of Germans: they all founded an independent regna known around I century AD and submitted by Avars centuries after until they had been defeated by Charlemagne, so that Slovakia was invaded by the Moravian tribe of Slavs who in 833 AD founded the Great Reign of Moravia under the Mojmir dinasty. When that went extinguished in 907 AD, their possessions had been splitted among the duchies of Poland and of Bohemia (the part of the Margraviate of Moravia), meantime Hungary annexed the region of Slovakia. In 1526 AD after the Battle of Mohacs, Slovakia passed to the Habsburg dinasty forever, joined into the Czech-Hungary Kingdom then annexed to the Empire of Austria-Hungary until the end of the First World War.

In 1919 AD Slovakia got independence as part of the Czechoslovakia until it was annexed to the III Reich in 1938 AD up to the end of the Second World War, when it was joined to the II Repubblic of Czech and Slovak under dominion of URSS until 1989 AD. Some years later it happened the pacific secession of the Slovakia Republic, administered by regions (Bratislawa, Trnava, Trencin, Nitra, Zilina, Banska Bystrica, Presov and Kosice) whose capital is Bratislawa and the other most important city is Kosice.

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