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 CER Bookshop: Czech Republic & Slovakia
Jelinek, Yeshayahu A; The Parish Republic: Hlinka's Slovak People's Party, 1939-1945 (1976)
Deals with interwar Slovakia and the Nazi-puppet Slovak state of 1939-1945.
The only comprehensive history of Slovakia in English, this work is somewhat marred by the author's attempt to "justify" the crimes of the Slovak state during the Second World War.
www.ce-review.org /books/czechslovakbooks.html   (2371 words)

  
 44070
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Czechoslovakia -- Slovak Socialist Republic -- Personal narratives (1)
World War (1939-1945) -- Underground movements, Jewish -- Czechoslovakia -- Slovak Socialist Republic (1)
Jews -- Czechoslovakia -- Slovak Socialist Republic -- Persecutions (1)
isbndb.com /d/book/44070.html   (277 words)

  
 Czechoslovakia
1938-1939 - Czecho-Slovakian Republic (federal, with autonomous Slovakia and Subcarpathian Russia, the latter renamed to Transcarpathian Ukraine and later Carpathian Ukraine, both in 1938) 1939 - dissolved into Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, Slovak State (later Slovak Republic), and (Republic of?) Carpathian Ukraine 1945-1960 - Czechoslovak Republic*
It finally became the Czech and Slovak Federative Republic in 1990, and was dissolved 1 january 1993 when it was split into the Czech Republic and Slovak Republic.
(1) The Flag and (!) the Standart of the President of the Czech and Slovak Federal Republic is white with a bordure, compound from flames alternate of white, red and bloue.
flagspot.net /flags/xc.html   (277 words)

  
 Czechoslovakia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
It consisted of the present-day territories of the Czech Republic, Slovakia and (until 1939/29 June 1945) the Carpathian Ruthenia (Carpatho-Ukraine).
The 1960 Constitution (The Constitution of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic) [a Communist one till 1989] with amendments in 1968 (Czechoslovakia turned into a federation), 1971, 1975, 1978, 1989 (leading role of the KSC abolished) and several times during 1990-1992 (e.
The 1920 Constitution (The Constitutional Document of the Czechoslovak Republic) [democratic, in force till 1948, several amendments], see: Czechoslovakia: 1918 - 1938
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Czechoslovakia   (1722 words)

  
 Presov, Slovakia, pictures
During World War II (1939-1945) it was part of the pro-German Slovak Republic, but then reverted to Czechoslovakia.
In 1919 Presov was the center of the short-lived Slovak Soviet Republic, which was declared during the socialist revolution in Hungary.
Located on the Torysa River south of the Carpathian Mountains, the city is a transportation hub on north-south routes between Poland and Hungary and east-west routes between Ukraine and the Czech Republic.
www.greatestcities.com /Europe/Slovakia/Presov_city.html   (1722 words)

  
 VirtualTourist.com - Slovakia Tips - Pictures, Tips and Reviews
I found history of Slovaks, people with strong cultural heritage and no independent state (except 1939-1945) till 1993 very, very interesting.
Slovakia (official name: Slovak Republic; Slovensko or Slovenska Republica in Slovak language) is an idependent, inland country re-born in 1993 (seperated from The Czecho-Slovak Federation, previously Czechoslovakia) located in geographical center of Europe, bordering: Austria, Czech, Poland, Ukraine and Hungary.
The Slovak Republic is divided into eight administrative regions ("kraj" in Slovak language).
www.virtualtourist.com /travel/Europe/Slovakia/General_Tips-Slovakia-R-3.html   (970 words)

  
 Czechoslovakia
1938-1939 - Czecho-Slovakian Republic (federal, with autonomous Slovakia and Subcarpathian Russia, the latter renamed to Transcarpathian Ukraine and later Carpathian Ukraine, both in 1938) 1939 - dissolved into Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, Slovak State (later Slovak Republic), and (Republic of?) Carpathian Ukraine 1945-1960 - Czechoslovak Republic*
On 9 may 1948 the unitary Czechoslovakian Democratic People's Republic was proclaimed, on 11 july the Czech-Slovak Socialist Republic, becoming a federal republic on 1 january 1969.
It finally became the Czech and Slovak Federative Republic in 1990, and was dissolved 1 january 1993 when it was split into the Czech Republic and Slovak Republic.
fotw.fivestarflags.com /xc.html   (970 words)

  
 Czechoslovakia
1938-1939 - Czecho-Slovakian Republic (federal, with autonomous Slovakia and Subcarpathian Russia, the latter renamed to Transcarpathian Ukraine and later Carpathian Ukraine, both in 1938) 1939 - dissolved into Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, Slovak State (later Slovak Republic), and (Republic of?) Carpathian Ukraine 1945-1960 - Czechoslovak Republic*
It finally became the Czech and Slovak Federative Republic in 1990, and was dissolved 1 january 1993 when it was split into the Czech Republic and Slovak Republic.
(restored as unitary, in 1946 Transcarpathian Ukraine joined with the Ukraine, USSR) *note there was no "Czechoslovak People's Democratic Republic", only the Czechoslovak Republic was declared to be "people's democratic republic" without changing its name!
areciboweb.50megs.com /fotw/flags/xc.html   (970 words)

  
 CER Bookshop: Czech Republic & Slovakia
Jelinek, Yeshayahu A; The Parish Republic: Hlinka's Slovak People's Party, 1939-1945 (1976)
Deals with interwar Slovakia and the Nazi-puppet Slovak state of 1939-1945.
The only comprehensive history of Slovakia in English, this work is somewhat marred by the author's attempt to "justify" the crimes of the Slovak state during the Second World War.
www.ce-review.org /books/czechslovakbooks.html   (2371 words)

  
 Library of Congress / Federal Research Division / Country Studies / Area Handbook Series/ Czechoslovakia / Bibliography
Hoensch, Jörg K. "The Slovak Republic, 1939-1945." Pages 271-95 in Victor S. Mamatey and Radomír Luza (eds.), A History of the Czechoslovak Republic, 1918-1948.
Mamatey, Victor S. "The Development of Czechoslovak Democracy: 1920-1938." Pages 99-166 in Victor S. Mamatey and Radomír Luza (eds.), A History of the Czechoslovak Republic, 1918-1948.
"The Second Republic, 1938-39." Pages 255-70 in Victor S. Mamatey and Radomír Luza (eds.), A History of the Czechoslovak Republic, 1918-1948.
lcweb2.loc.gov /frd/cs/czechoslovakia/cs_bibl.html   (2371 words)

  
 List of leaders of Slovak parliaments - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Slovak National Council [since 1 October 1992 called the National Council of the Slovak Republic] (1945-1992; within Czechoslovakia)
President of the Presidium of the Slovak National Council (1944 –1945; in rebellion within Slovakia)
Assembly of the Slovak Land (1939; within Czechoslovakia)
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_leaders_of_Slovak_parliaments   (442 words)

  
 Czech Republic's Coats of Arms
1920-1939 (Republic of Czechoslovakia's COA accepted two years after dissolution of Austria-Hungary, used also by exile government in 1940-1945)
1945-1960 *the same* as 1 (before accepting the constitution of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic in 1960, both official name and COAs of the pre-WWII Republic of Czechoslovakia remained unchanged - no "People's Democratic Republic of Czechoslovakia" has ever existed!)
1990-1992 (Czechoslovak Federal Republic, later Czech and Slovak Federal Republic), the same lion used in the COA of the Czech Republic
www.1uptravel.com /flag/flags/cz).html   (442 words)

  
 History of Czecholsovakia, 1918-1992
"The Slovak Republic, 1939-1945." In: Stanislav J. Kirschbaum.
World War One and the Birth of the First Czechoslovak Republic.
Problems of the First Republic V: The Development of the Communist Party.
www.columbia.edu /~bfa4/cs.html   (442 words)

  
 Banska Bystrica, Slovakia, Pictures
After World War I (1914-1918) Banská Bystrica was a part of Czechoslovakia, except when it belonged to the pro-German Slovak Republic that existed during World War II (1939-1945).
In 1944 the city was the headquarters of the anti-Nazi Slovak National Uprising.
Originally a Slovak settlement founded in the 5th century, Banská Bystrica belonged to the Empire of Great Moravia, a Slavic state, during the 9th century.
www.greatestcities.com /Europe/Slovakia/Banska_Bystrica_city.html   (238 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - Bratislava, Czech Republic & Slovakia (Czech And Slovak Political Geography) - Encyclopedia
From 1939 until 1945, Bratislava was the capital of a nominally independent Slovak republic that was governed by a fascistic pro-German regime responsible for the murder of tens of thousands of Czechs and Jews.
The Univ. of Jan Comenius (1919), the Slovak Academy of Sciences, a polytechnic university, a national theater, and several museums are in the city.
it was the center of the emerging Slovak national revival, and after the union of the Czech and Slovak territories in 1918 it was incorporated into Czechoslovakia.
reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/B/Bratisla.html   (430 words)

  
 Slovak Cultural Center - Museum and Library
A rare and unique feature of the Slovak Garden museum is the complete collection of coins and stamps of the Slovak Republic from 1939 to 1945 and the old newspaper magazine, "Novy-Svet", published in 1938 in Slovakia.
Slovak Garden, A Home for American Slovaks is a non-profit institution and donations are tax deductible.
The Slovak Garden Library/Museum was established in 1988 under the direction of Andrew F. Hudak II, President of Slovak Garden, A Home for American Slovaks, the Officers and Board of Directors.
www.iarelative.com /flslovak/museum.htm   (430 words)

  
 Czechoslovakia
1938-1939 - Czecho-Slovakian Republic (federal, with autonomous Slovakia and Subcarpathian Russia, the latter renamed to Transcarpathian Ukraine and later Carpathian Ukraine, both in 1938) 1939 - dissolved into Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, Slovak State (later Slovak Republic), and (Republic of?) Carpathian Ukraine 1945-1960 - Czechoslovak Republic*
(restored as unitary, in 1946 Transcarpathian Ukraine joined with the Ukraine, USSR) *note there was no "Czechoslovak People's Democratic Republic", only the Czechoslovak Republic was declared to be "people's democratic republic" without changing its name!
For Ruthenia (annexed by the Soviet Union in fourties, finally ceded to USSR in 1945 and now a part of Ukraine), a coat of arms was designed, evoking Ukraine and Russia.
www.z6.com /z6files/z6files/fotw/flags/cs.html   (430 words)

  
 Czechoslovakia
1938-1939 - Czecho-Slovakian Republic (federal, with autonomous Slovakia and Subcarpathian Russia, the latter renamed to Transcarpathian Ukraine and later Carpathian Ukraine, both in 1938) 1939- dissolved into Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, Slovak State (later Slovak Republic), and (Republic of?) Carpathian Ukraine 1945-1960 - Czechoslovak Republic*
(restored as unitary, in 1946 Transcarpathian Ukraine joined with the Ukraine, USSR) *note there was no "Czechoslovak People's Democratic Republic", only the Czechoslovak Republic was declared to be "people's democratic republic" without changing its name!
These arms are still used as ethnic symbols by the Rusyns (Ruthenes) and in the year 1990 it was confirmed as an Symbol of Zakarpatska Oblast of Ukraine.
flagspot.net /flags/xc.html   (430 words)

  
 THE PRESIDENTIAL DECREES OF EDWARD BENES
Benes proclaimed the program of the newly appointed Czechoslovak government on April 5, 1945, in the northeastern city of Kosice (Kassa, Kaschau), which included inhuman elements of oppression and barbarous persecution of the non-Czech, non-Slovak and non-allied population of the partially restored Czechoslovak Republic.
Between 1945 and 1948, an endless list of discriminatory anti-German and anti-Hungarian presidential decrees, edicts, laws and statutes were proclaimed by the president of the republic, the Prague-based Czechoslovak Parliament, the Slovak National Council (parliament) in Bratislava (Presburg) and by the Board of Slovak Commissioners (an appendage of the Czechoslovak government in Bratislava).
Benes' second term of office (1945-1948) was cut short after the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia in a putsch orchestrated by the Soviet Union ousted him.
www.hufo.info /cgi-bin/main.cgi?szerv=tanulmany&action=view&message=41&location=messages   (5558 words)

  
 Czechoslovakia
1938-1939 - Czecho-Slovakian Republic (federal, with autonomous Slovakia and Subcarpathian Russia, the latter renamed to Transcarpathian Ukraine and later Carpathian Ukraine, both in 1938) 1939- dissolved into Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, Slovak State (later Slovak Republic), and (Republic of?) Carpathian Ukraine 1945-1960 - Czechoslovak Republic*
The grand arms were: Quarterly of seven, in rows of 2, 2 and 3: Slovakia, Ruthenia, Moravia, Silesia, Tesin, Opava and Ratibor, en surtout Bohemia.
These arms are still used as ethnic symbols by the Rusyns (Ruthenes) and in the year 1990 it was confirmed as an Symbol of Zakarpatska Oblast of Ukraine.
flagquest.com /FOTW/flags/cs.html   (1614 words)

  
 Bratislava - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Bratislava
Bratislava was the capital of a nominally independent Slovak Republic from 1939 to 1945, which was governed by a fascistic pro-German regime responsible for the murder of tens of thousands of Czechs and Jews.
The region was abolished in 1960, and in 1993 it became the capital of the newly independent Slovak Republic.
In the 19th century it became the centre of the emerging Slovak national revival, and after the union of the Czech and Slovak territories in 1918 it was incorporated into Czechoslovakia.
encyclopedia.farlex.com /Bratislava   (386 words)

  
 Encyclopedia :: Czechoslovakia
It consisted of the present-day territories of the Czech Republic, Slovakia and (until 1939/29 June 1945) the Carpathian Ruthenia (Carpatho-Ukraine).
Czechoslovakia n : a former republic in central Europe; divided into Czech Republic and Slovakia in 1993
Czechs 54.1%, Slovaks 31%, Moravians 8.7%, Hungarians 3.8%, Gypsies 0.7%
www.hallencyclopedia.com /Czechoslovakia   (2211 words)

  
 Otto Ulc Published in East European Quarlerly, XXX,No.3,September 1996
See Yeshayahu Jelinek, The Parish Republic: Hlinka's Slovak People's Party, 1939- 1945 (New York: Columbia University Press, 1976).
Slovak storm troopers known as the Hlinka Guard distinguished themselves mainly as looters of Jewish property.
The Czech "colonizers" were expelled, Slovak units assisted the Germans in the conquest of Poland (a little known historical episode) and anti-Jewish legislation was adopted, in its severity surpassing the infamous Nuremberg laws.
people2.clarityconnect.com /webpages6/ota/art_eng/E-68.html   (2211 words)

  
 MSN Encarta - Czechoslovakia
Germany also incited the Slovaks to declare their own independent republic, a fascist state headed by a Roman Catholic priest, Father Jozef Tiso, that became a puppet and military ally of the Reich.
The new Czechoslovakia was a Western-style democratic republic, with a parliamentary form of government, universal suffrage, and firm guarantees for human rights.
Apart from the assassination of a Gestapo official, Reinhard Heydrich, in 1942, and an armed uprising in Prague in May 1945, Czech resistance during World War II (1939-1945) was rather passive, emphasizing sabotage and the collection of intelligence.
uk.encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761553727_2____8/Czechoslovakia.html   (1036 words)

  
 Czechoslovakia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
It consisted of the present-day territories of the Czech Republic, Slovakia and (until 1939/29 June 1945) the Carpathian Ruthenia (Carpatho-Ukraine).
In 1992, the federal parliament decided to split the country in the Czech Republic and Slovakia as of January 1, 1993.
Slovakia's troops fought on the Russian front until the summer of 1944, when the Slovak armed forces staged an uprising against their government.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Czechoslovakia   (1722 words)

  
 Slovakia
Slovakia - Slovakia or the Slovak Republic,Slovak Slovensko, republic (2005 est.
The country was liberated from the Germans by the Soviet army in the spring of 1945, and Slovakia was restored to its prewar status and rejoined to a new Czechoslovakian state.
In March 1939, Germany occupied Czechoslovakia, established a German “protectorate,” and created a puppet state out of Slovakia with Monsignor Josef Tiso as prime minister.
www.infoplease.com /ipa/A0107967.html   (968 words)

  
 Jozef Tiso - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Monsignor Jozef Tiso (October 13, 1887–April 18, 1947) was a Roman Catholic priest who became a deputy of the Czechoslovak parliament, a member of the Czechoslovak government, and finally the President World War II-era Slovak Republic when it was a Nazi puppet state.
Tiso served as the Prime Minister of independent Slovakia from March 14, 1939 until October 26, 1939.
Even during his presidency, Tiso continued to work actively as the parish priest of the town of Bánovce nad Bebravou (from 1924 to 1945).
en.wikipedia.org /?title=Jozef_Tiso   (1424 words)

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