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	Slovaks - LoveToKnow 1911
		The Magyars have always treated the Slovaks as an inferior race and have succeeded in assimilating many districts where the prefix Tot in place-names shows the former presence of Slovaks: those who take the Magyar language and attitude are called Magyarones.
		The Magyars, in pursuance of this policy, do their best to suppress the Slovak nationality in every way, even to the extent of taking away Slovak children to be brought up as Magyars, and denying them the right to use their language in church and school.
		A new start was made in the 'forties by L'udevit Stur, Josef Hurban and M. Hodza who adopted the central dialect, united the Catholic and Protestant Slovaks in its use and successfully opposed the attempts to keep the Slovaks to the use of tech.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Slovaks (772 words)

	Slovaks
		Czechs outnumbered Slovaks in Czechoslovakia as well as in Chicago, and Chicago's Slovaks feared that their distinctive culture would be eclipsed.
		Slovak community leaders wanted the country to be called Czecho-slovakia, believing that the hyphen signified the equality of the Czech and Slovak portions of the nation.
		The Dunaj Savings and Loan, the most important Slovak financial institution in Chicago, was a casualty of the Depression, and the Osadné Hlasy, the Catholic Slovak weekly newspaper, repeatedly begged readers to continue to patronize the Slovak businesses that advertised in the newspaper and whose prosperity was necessary for the paper's survival.
	www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org /pages/1152.html (823 words)

	YourArt.com >> Encyclopedia >> Slovaks (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Slovaks are a western Slavic ethnic group that primarily inhabits Slovakia and speak the Slovak language, which is closely related to the Czech language.
		There are autochthonous Slovak minorities in the Czech Republic, Hungary, Serbia and sizable populations of immigrants and their descendants in the US and in Canada.
		The current position of the most prominent Slovak ethnographers and linguists is that the Slavs in the territory of Slovakia have to be called "Slovaks" not later than from 955 or 1000 onwards (when the Magyars settled in Hungary) and that this Slovak ethnogenesis (i.e.
	www.yourart.com /research/encyclopedia.cgi?subject=/Slovaks (1690 words)

	Encyclopedia of Cleveland History:SLOVAKS
		In 1902 Slovaks, along with other Slavic groups and Romanians, successfully opposed the erection of a statue in PUBLIC SQUARE of Louis Kossuth, who was considered an enemy of the non-Magyar nationalities in Austria-Hungary.
		By the 1980s, most individuals of Slovak ancestry in Cleveland had moved to the suburbs of Parma, BEDFORD, or GARFIELD HEIGHTS Despite the aging of the 1st-generation population and its general dispersal, an annual Slovak Festival was still being held on Labor Day in the 1980s.
		In 1983 in recognition of the continuing Slovak presence and spirit in the Cleveland area, a Slovak language-and-culture lectureship was created at JOHN CARROLL UNIVERSITY and subsidized by a Fulbright agency, the Council for the Intl.
	ech.case.edu /ech-cgi/article.pl?id=S15 (1638 words)

	The Slovaks in America (European Reading Room, Library of Congress)
		The Pittsburgh Agreement was concluded by representatives of Czechs and Slovaks at a meeting of the American branch of the Narodni rada ceskoslovenska (Czechoslovak National Council) in Pittsburgh.
		A Slovak room was established at the Immigration Archives of the University of Minnesota.
		Another wave of Slovak immigration was fueled by the Soviet Union's invasion of Czechoslovakia, the Soviet response to the cultural and political liberalization of the Prague Spring.
	www.loc.gov /rr/european/imsk/slovakia.html (2572 words)

	Slovaks reconnect with their heritage
		The club is where, a century or so ago, Slovak immigrants came to learn their first words of English so they could get jobs in Pittsburgh's dirty and dangerous mines and mills.
		No area of the United States is home to more Slovaks, who as a group learned to survive outside the spotlight and who have endured for a millennium under the thumb of bigger powers.
		A Slovak legend describes its language as the most beautiful in the world: "like the singing of angels, as beautiful as the dew shining in the sun, as pleasant as a breeze in May, as nice as the smile of an innocent child."
	www.post-gazette.com /magazine/20010520slovaksmag2.asp (2260 words)

	SLOVAKIA.ORG - Slovaks Abroad and the Diaspora
		Large-scale Slovak immigration to the United States began in the late 1870s, when Slovakia was a part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire administered by Hungary.
		The number of Slovaks entering the United States declined sharply during World War I. At the end of the war in 1918, the Slovak and Czech regions formerly controlled by Austria-Hungary were united as a single country known as Czechoslovakia.
		The overwhelming majority of the Slovak American community is made up of the descendants of immigrants who arrived in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
	www.slovakia.org /sk-american.htm (625 words)

	MAR \| Data \| Assessment for Slovaks in the Czech Republic (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Slovaks in the Czech Republic are concentrated predominantly in the areas which had a large German minority prior to WWII -- Praha, Brno, Karvina, Olomouc, Tabor, Kladno and West Bohmen (GROUPCON = 3).
		Slovaks in the Czech Republic are by far the most advantaged minority group in the country.
		The most important grievances as expressed by the Slovak community representatives in the Czech Republic are the nonexistence of Slovak representation in parliament, and the lack of Slovak-language education, both of which are slowly being met.
	www.cidcm.umd.edu /inscr/mar/assessment.asp?groupId=31603 (598 words)

	Census of Slovaks, 1922, Mahoning County
		You can go to the index by location to see other Slovak families that were living in the same locality in 1922.
		The 1990 U.S. Census still shows a very high concentration of Slovaks per Square Mile in Mahoning County and most of eastern Ohio.
		In the Year 2000 was written by a Slovak writer for the Pressburger (Bratislava) Zeitung on 22 March 1922, about the time the Census of Slovaks was done for Mahoning County, Ohio.
	www.iarelative.com /22census (308 words)

	List of Slovaks - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		This is a list of Slovaks and of individuals of significance to Slovakia.
		He lived in the town of Nitra at the beginning of the 9th century, and ruled over the territory from the Nitra castle.
		He is responsible for building the first known church of Western and Eastern Slavs on Slovak soil in 828.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_Slovaks (3072 words)

	Boston.com / News / World / Europe / Gasparovic Wins as Slovaks Reject One-Time Pariah
		Slovaks rejected a return to power of hard-line nationalist former Prime Minister Vladimir Meciar in a presidential runoff vote, choosing the more moderate Ivan Gasparovic as the country heads into the European Union.
		Many Slovaks characterized the election as a choice between the lesser of two evils.
		Financial markets had prepared for a Meciar victory -- the one-time amateur boxer took the first round in the vote -- and analysts said the result was likely to be slightly positive for the crown currency in the short-term.
	www.boston.com /news/world/europe/articles/2004/04/18/gasparovic_wins_as_slovaks_reject_one_time_pariah_1082285253 (622 words)

	Slovak-Americans. Selection from Writings of Mila Rechcigl
		Slovak Americans are well known for their cultural contributions in church-related activities, their ethnic press, their work in fraternal organization and for sponsorship of various community events.
		In psychology Bruno Bettelheim (1903-1990), a Viennese native of Slovak ancestry, excelled.
		Be that as it may, the fact remains that these accomplished individuals came from the same territory and that the environment, in which they grew up and were raised, must have significantly influenced their future development and played a role in their high degree of achievement and distinction...
	hometown.aol.com /rechcigl/myhomepage/collection.html (5331 words)

	breakup (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Slovak schools and institutions were closed, libraries were confiscated, and the Slovak language was strongly supressed.
		Slovak's held some hostility towards Czechs because they felt that the Czechs held more power in the government, and the Slovaks felt that power should be shared equally.
		However, Slovaks have not had a history of secessionist nationalism and their demands for equality were based on greater autonomy.
	www.unc.edu /~michalka/slovakia/breakup.html (985 words)

	the Slovaks (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Slovak industry was not as advanced as that of the Czech Lands and had been highly subsidized by the Hungarian government.
		The Czechs assisted in dramatically reducing the illiteracy rate; a Slovak press and Slovak cultural activities were encouraged; the towns were demographically demagyarized and slovacized.
		Although Slovaks were being phased into these services as rapidly as the educational system graduated them, the Czechs were not withdrawn and hence came to be resented as superfluous and parasitic.
	web.isp.cz /jcrane/Slovaks.html (337 words)

	asn96.htm -- Hungarians, Slovaks and Political Party System Development in the Slovak Republic
		I argue that this is true not simply because national issues reflect an important divide in Slovak society but because certain approaches to national issues correspond closely to and even reinforce another set of important divisions in Slovak society which are related to voter incentives and the understanding of democracy.
		HZDS begins with the broader statement that "teaching of history must respect allegiance to the Slovak Republic" and proposes that all history textbooks be approved by the Ministry of Education.
		The use of Slovak as the state language of the Slovak Republic, for example, requires no particular effort for the over five-sixths who grew up speaking Slovak with their parents but does in fact require effort by those who must learn it as a second language.
	www.cla.wayne.edu /polisci/kdk/papers/asn1996.htm (12391 words)

	Slovaks in the Central Danubian region
		Slovak historiography is also working hard on gathering the proofs of the way and period when our ancestors populated the area of present Slovakia despite the fact that there would be many reasons to support the theory of autochthony as F.V.Sasinek very vehemently did.
		Therefore as soon as the Slovaks became part of their own new national state, the Czechoslovak republic, after the decline of Austro-Hungarian monarchy the questions of the history of Slovakia and the Slovaks including the history of feudalism were brought to the board.
		The Suebi Kingdom, that was situated in the Slovak territory, bordered to the Herul Empire in the west, to the Ostrogothic Empire in the south along the Danube and reached even the Kingdom of the Skiri who inhabited the territory upon the Danube, east of the Ostrogothic Empire.
	www.snm.sk /old/zbornik/zbornik_text.htm (20241 words)

	The Slovaks in the Czech Republic (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Slovaks in the Czech Republic are thus the world’s next largest Slovak minority; the largest Slovak minority is the one found in the USA.
		The Slovaks in the Czech Republic are not an indigenous population; many of them are living there as third or fourth generation, so one may say that the minority is relatively young.
		The use of the Slovak language in connection with the authorities, for example with the military, is tolerated.
	www.minority2000.net /Gr-75/t73gb.htm (677 words)

	Chronology (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Disunity between Slovaks in the Czech Republic is apparent: nine officially existing organizations are often not able to agree or stop attacking each other in the Czech press, the Daily says.
		He also said the Slovak Institute in Prague was not restricted in placing the state flag and emblem on its residence and that Slovak ethnic minority press in the Czech Republic had received a state subsidy amounting 6 million crowns ($230,000).
		The Union of Slovaks Living in the Czech Republic considers the Slovak government's decision not to invite representatives of Czech Slovaks to Bratislava to attend a discussions on the law on compatriots "outrageous and discriminatory".
	www.cidcm.umd.edu /inscr/mar/data/czeslovchro.htm (2316 words)

	Czechs and Slovaks in Florida - SVU Paper
		While it is true that few Czechs and Slovaks came to Florida directly from Europe, the migration of people from the northeast and mid-west to Florida included a significant number of both nationalities as we shall see during this presentation.
		In 1924 Joseph Joscak, editor of the New Yorksy Denník, a daily Slovak newspaper in New York City, began writing a series of articles about the wonderful State of Florida where it was reported that it was possible to grow as many as three crops annually due to the warm climate.
		Relatively few immigrants arrived from the Slovak Republic largely due to the fact that the U.S. government issues considerably fewer visas to citizens of the Slovak Republic compared to the Czech Republic.
	acscc.org /Papers/svu_062703b.html (2007 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Special reports \| Slovaks return pro-western coalition
		The prospects for a smooth expansion of the EU and Nato into central and eastern Europe improved at the weekend when Slovak voters snubbed nationalists and populists in favour of a sober pro-western coalition of moderates.
		In a crucial election determining the country's chances of joining the two key western clubs, the Slovaks turned their backs on the formidable former prime minister, Vladimir Meciar, after loud warnings from the west that a vote for him would be a vote for international isolation.
		EU ambassadors in the capital, Bratislava, were quick to applaud the voters' choice yesterday in Slovakia's most important election since the collapse of communism in 1989 and the break-up of Czechoslovakia three years later.
	www.guardian.co.uk /eu/story/0,7369,797007,00.html (413 words)

	CNN.com - Slovaks endorse EU membership - May. 18, 2003
		The prime minister and other top leaders made last-minute appeals to voters to show up at the polls on Saturday since the country's constitution requires more than 50 percent to cast ballots before results are binding.
		Slovaks "protest things that have nothing to do with the EU," Pavel Haulik, a sociologist who specializes in election behavior, told The Associated Press.
		The Slovak Republic becomes the fifth of 10 countries to gain their citizens' approval for admission to the EU next year.
	edition.cnn.com /2003/WORLD/europe/05/18/slovakia.vote (313 words)

	Toronto Slovaks before 1934 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		It was then that the Slovaks landed on the shores of this great country of opportunity.
		Stanislaus on Denison Avenue being a Polish parish, a language similar to Slovak, was an ideal place to go to church because it was in the district where the majority of Slovaks lived, and they were able to understand the language.
		It was then that the Slovak societies authorized the branch of the First Catholic Slovak Union in Toronto to write to Rev. Francis Dubosh-then the chaplain of the First Catholic Slovak Union in the United States-to come to their rescue.
	collections.ic.gc.ca /magic/mt47.html (903 words)

	Slovaks ready to go step better - Breaking News (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Slovak Republic has a shot at redemption when it faces Argentina in the Hopman Cup final at Perth's Burswood Dome.
		The Slovaks were gifted a place in last year's decider when a foot injury to Alicia Molik forced Australia out of its showdown with the US.
		The Slovaks narrowly lost their opening tie 2-1 to Australia, but qualified for the final following a 2-1 victory over America and the 3-0 sweep of the Netherlands.
	www.smh.com.au - !http: //www.smh.com.au/news/Sport/Slovaks-ready-to-go-step-betters/2005/01/07/1104832299301.html (529 words)

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