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| | Janko Krai' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) |
 | | Janko Krai', (1822-1876), Slovak poet of Romanticism, son of a butcher, studied at the Evangelical lyceum in Bratislava, and afterwards worked in the law office of Boleslav Vrchovsky in Pest. |
 | | A participant in March revolt of 1848 in Pest, he urged democracy, the end of noble privileges, the distribution of the land without compensation, the guarantee of the civil rights, and the equality of nations. |
 | | The new royal commissioner of the Liptov county, appointed by Prince Windischgrätz, imprisoned Krai' at the end of March, but Slovak patriots forced his release. |
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