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SLOVAKIA
SLOVAKIA:VITALSTATISTICS Capital: Bratislava Population: 5,463,046 Land Area: 49,035
sq.km Median age: 36.9 years Languages: Dutch (official), Frisian (official) Currency: Euro (Jan 2009) Government: Parliamentary democracy Chief of State: President Ivan Gasparovic (since 2004) Head of Government: Prime Minister Robert Fico (since 2006) Cabinet: Cabinet appointed by the president on the recommendation of the prime minister Elections: President elected by popular vote for five year term (eligible for second term). Last election was held March 2009. Following National Council elections, leader of the majority party or leader of majority coalition usually appointed prime minister by the president.
machines and multiplayer roulettes. The company was founded in 1994.
Today, Tipsport SK operates 500 bookmaker offices and in March last year launched a new customer bonus system called Tipkonto to offer regular customers benefits. The service is also available via the internet.
HISTORY The Slavs arrived in what is now known as Slovakia between the fifth and sixth centuries AD during the Migration Period.
Western Slovakia became the centre of Samo’s Empire in the 7th century whilst together with neighbouring Moravia it formed the core of the Great Moravian Empire from 833 – the first common state of Slovak and Czech ancestors.
The era of Great Moravia lasted until 896 when the Magyar tribes began to occupy the territory and the south-western area became part of the Kingdom of Hungary after 1000 until the collapse of the Austro- Hungarian Empire in 1918.
The population decline in the 1200s began with the invasions of the Mongols and the subsequent famine although later in medieval times Slovakia saw burgeoning towns, the construction of stone castles and the cultivation of the arts.
In the 16th century the centre of the Kingdom of Hungary shifted to Pozsony (now Bratislava) which became the capital city of Royal Hungary in 1536. But the Ottoman wars saw a great deal of destruction. During the revolution of 1848-49 the Slovaks supported the Austrian Emperor hoping for independence from the Hungarian part of the Dual Monarchy although this failed.
In 1918 Slovakia and the regions of Bohemia and Moravia formed a common state called Czechoslovakia. Democratic Czechoslovakia was allied with France and also Romania and Yugoslavia and both Czechs and Slovaks enjoyed a period of post war prosperity.
However during World War II Nazi Germany threatened to annex part of Slovakia to allow remaining regions to be partitioned by Hungary and Poland unless they declared independence.
So Slovakia seceded from Czecho- Slovakia in March 1939 and allied itself with Germany. Thus Slovakia became strongly influenced by Germany and gradually became a ‘puppet regime’ in many respects.
Many Jews were deported from the country and when the Russian Red Army began to force the Nazis out of eastern and central Europe the Slovak National
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Uprising began which saw a German occupation and guerrilla war.
After World War II Czechoslovakia was reconstituted and 80,000 Hungarians and 32,000 Germans were forced to leave Slovakia and today this remains a source of tension between Slovaks and Hungarians.
The country came under the influence of the Soviet Union and in 1969 Czechoslovakia became a federation of the Czech Socialist Republic and Slovak Socialist Republic.
The end of communist rule came in 1989 during the peaceful Velvet Revolution and the country divided itself it two successor states. In 1992 Slovakia led by Prime Minister Vladimir Meciar declared itself a sovereign state. The Velvet Divorce took place in 1993 and Slovakia has remained a close partner with the Czech Republic since and both countries cooperate with Hungary and Poland in the Visegrad Group.
Slovakia became a member of NATO and of the European Union in 2004 and in January 2009 it accepted the Euro as it national currency.
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