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  Learn more about Slovakia in the online encyclopedia.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Slovakia (in Slovak: Slovensko), officially also called the Slovak Republic (in Slovak: Slovenská republika), is a landlocked republic in Central Europe, bounded on the northwest by the Czech Republic, on the north by Poland, on the east by Ukraine, on the south by Hungary, and on the southwest by Austria.
The Slovak landscape is noted primarily for its mountainous nature, with the Carpathian Mountains extending across most of the northern half of the country.
The Slovak climate is temperate, with relatively cool summers and cold, cloudy and humid winters.
www.onlineencyclopedia.org /s/sl/slovakia.html   (1057 words)

  
 Hungary - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Stews are often to be found with typical elements such as pork or beef, for example as used in pörkölt.
Famous Hungarian mathematicians include Paul Erdős who is famous for publishing in over forty languages and whose Erdős numbers are still tracked, János Bolyai designer of non-Euclidian geometry, John von Neumann one of the pioneers in digital computing, Eugene Wigner, and many others.
János Arany, a famous 19th century Hungarian poet is still much loved in Hungary (especially his collection of Ballads), among several other "true classics" like Sándor Petőfi, the poet of the Revolution of 1848, Endre Ady, Mihály Babits, Dezső Kosztolányi, Attila József and János Pilinszky.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hungary   (3975 words)

  
 Slovakia and the Origin of Slavs - Little of Slavic History
The Slovaks and the Czechs agreed to separate peacefully on 1 January 1993.
The Slovak Populist Party was Catholic in orientation and found its support among Slovak Catholics, many of whom objected to the secularist tendencies of the Czechs.
The Slovak peasantry had suffered hardships during the period of economic readjustment after the disintegration of the Hapsburg Empire.
slavs.freeservers.com /Slovakia.html   (1099 words)

  
 The Ultimate Czechoslovakia Dog Breeds Information Guide and Reference
Czechoslovakia (Czech: Československo, Slovak: Česko-Slovensko/before 1990 Československo) was a country in Central Europe that existed from 1918 until 1992 (except for the World War II period).
The ethnic problems were due to the fact that the second and third largest ethnic groups (Germans and Slovaks, respectively) were not fully satisfied with the dominance of the Czechs, and that the Germans and Hungarians of Czechoslovakia have never really accepted the creation of the new state.
The famous tennis players Ivan Lendl and Martina Navratilova were born in Czechoslovakia.
www.dogluvers.com /dog_breeds/Czechoslovakia   (1501 words)

  
 Non-Biblical Textual Criticism
Czechs and Slovaks, for instance, can understand each other, but their languages are called distinct.
The idea of a separate "Slovak" language does not seem to have existed before the time of Bajza (1754-1836), and there was little literary impulse until the nineteenth century, when Ludovít Stúr produced a newspaper using a standardized Slovak language.
Even that was opposed by many Slovaks, some of whome preferred Czech as a literary language (Czech influence had long affected the few works published in Bratislava).
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 Christmas in Czech, Bohemia, and Moravia
National Czech & Slovak Museum & Library Museum Gift Store
for the Christmas in the Slovak and Carpatho-Rusyn Tradition
How Do I Get On The NICE List?
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