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| | Wild Images Blog - a Kiwi's perspective of life in post-communist Slovakia |
 | | Additionally, early climbs in the area by Ludovit Stur, a nineteenth century poet, writer, and national revivalist, are the subject of Slovak lessons at school. |
 | | Stur was a member of parliament during the era of Hungarian rule, and doggedly fought to preserve and promote the Slovak language, at a time when the region was undergoing a forced ‘Magyarisation’ (Hungarianisation). |
 | | Ludovit Stur is known and remembered by all Slovaks, and Kriváň, with it’s striking profile, seems to have become a larger-than-life representation of him, and all he stood for. |
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