Slovakia also hosted the pride, but encountered many problems with Slovak extremists from Slovenska pospolitost ( the pride did not cross the centre of the city ).

* Slovakia – patriarchal cross and three mountains

The flag and the coat of arms of Slovakia both include the cross of Lorraine.

* Coat of Arms of Slovakia ( describes the meaning of the cross and how the patriarchal cross probably became the cross of Lorraine )

Bigger ski resorts offer well kept cross-country paths, but skiers ' made paths can be found virtually by any village or tourist center. Slovakia is rather small so there is not much of " cross country "

The coat of arms of Slovakia consists of a red ( gules ) shield, in early gothic style, charged with a silver ( argent ) double cross standing on the middle peak of a dark blue mountain consisting of three peaks.

One of the modern interpretations of the double cross is that it represents Slovakia as an heir and guardian of Christian tradition, brought to the region by St. Cyril and St. Methodius, two missionaries from the Byzantine Empire.

The double cross arrived in the territory of current-day Slovakia probably no later than during the 9th century mission of Cyril and Methodius to Great Moravia.

The double cross symbol appeared again in rudimentary features on the first coins that Stephen I, the first king of the Kingdom of Hungary ( part of which now forms the territory of present-day Slovakia ), had minted at an unknown place.

When the Kingdom of Hungary was split in two parts temporarily in 1262, the double cross was used as the symbol for the northern and western part ( encompassing present-day Slovakia ) and the stripes as the symbol for the other part of the kingdom.

From the late 14th century onwards ( according to other sources from the 13th century ), the double cross symbol was used both as a symbol for northern parts of the Kingdom (" partes Danubii septentrionales, partes regni superiores ", i. e. approximately the territory of present-day Slovakia and northeastern Hungary ) and as a symbol of kings of the Kingdom of Hungary.

These villages include Batadorp in the Netherlands, Baťovany ( present-day Partizánske ) and Svit in Slovakia, Baťov ( now Bahňák, part of Otrokovice ) in the Czech Republic, Borovo-Bata ( now Borovo Naselje, part of Vukovar in Croatia then in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia ), Bataville in Lorraine, France, Batawa in Canada, East Tilbury in Essex, England, Batapur in Pakistan and Batanagar and Bataganj in India.

* Píča, a geometric symbol used as a sexual reference in the Czech Republic and Slovakia

The three nails, as a symbol for the crucifixion of Jesus Christ, are also used on the coats of arms of Drahovce, Slovakia, Saint Saviour, Jersey, St. Clement Parish, Ottawa and in the seal of the Society of Jesus.

) as the symbol of what is today Slovakia and the stripes symbol as the symbol for Pannonia.

Based on the Constitution of the Slovak Republic of September 3, 1992, the same coat of arms became the symbol of independent Slovakia, which arose on January 1, 1993.

The brown bear's principal range includes parts of Russia, the United States ( mostly in Alaska ), Canada, the Carpathian region ( especially Romania, but also Ukraine, Slovakia, Poland and so on ), the Balkans, Sweden and Finland, where it is the national animal.

His mother, Paula ( born Paula Voit ), had German as a mother tongue, but was ethnically of " mixed Hungarian " origin: Her maiden name Voit is German, probably of Saxon origin from Upper Hungary ( Since 1920 in Czechoslovakia, since 1993 in Slovakia ), though she spoke Hungarian fluently.

In the Netherlands, Latvia, Lithuania, Austria, Germany, Scandinavia, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Poland and Catalonia, 26 December is celebrated as the Second Christmas Day.

* Kofola is the third best selling soft-drink in the Czech Republic and Slovakia, behind Coca-Cola and Pepsi.

Turnout in 2009 stood at 43 % of all European voters, ranging from 90 % in Luxembourg and Belgium ( where compulsory voting is used ) to 20 % in Slovakia.

Trust is highest in Slovakia, Belgium, Malta, Denmark, Estonia, Romania, Bulgaria, and Luxembourg ; it is lowest in the UK ( 22 %) and Latvia ( 40 %).

Schmidt was born in Pozsony ( known in German as Pressburg ), in the Hungarian part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire ( the city is now Bratislava, capital of Slovakia ).

Gun ownership in Slovakia is regulated by gun laws.

The Danube also flows through parts of Germany, Austria, Croatia, Slovakia, Serbia, and Romania. It is navigable within Hungary for 418 kilometers.

It is estimated that in the aftermath of World War II between 13 and 16 million ethnic Germans were expelled from the territories of Eastern Germany ( present-day part of Poland ), the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia, Hungary, Croatia, Serbia ( mostly from the Vojvodina region ), the Kaliningrad Oblast ( formerly northern part of East Prussia ) area of Russia, Lithuania, Romania and other East European countries.

Today, the language is official in Hungary, and regionally also in Romania, in Slovakia, in Serbia, and in Slovenia.

It is the most popular sport in Canada, Finland, Latvia, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia.

* Three Wise Men Day, or Epiphany, in Latin America, Spain, Puerto Rico and Dominican Republic, and is, although not celebrated as widely or in the same way as in countries with a Spanish history, an official holiday in many European countries, for example Austria, Italy, Sweden, Finland, Liechtenstein, Slovakia and Croatia, as well as in parts of Germany and Switzerland.

Latvia is slightly larger than Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Slovakia, or Estonia.

* In Slovakia, a municipality ( obec ) is part of a district ( okres ).

Politically it is bordered by Silesian Voivodeship to the west, Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship to the north, Subcarpathian Voivodeship to the east, and Slovakia to the south.

The reported number of deaths linked to the use of drugs in the Netherlands, as a proportion of the entire population, is together with Poland, France, Slovakia, Hungary and the Czech Republic the lowest of the EU.

Blue, white, and red is a common combination in Slavic countries such as the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Russia, Serbia, Slovenia, and Croatia as well as among Western nations including Australia, France, Iceland, Norway, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands and the United States of America.

Today, most post-communist countries in Europe are generally seen to have mixed economies, although it is often argued that some ( such as Romania, Slovakia and Estonia, with their flat tax rates ) are actually more capitalist than Western Europe.

For example, it is used in French presidential, legislative, and cantonal elections, and also to elect the presidents of Afghanistan, Argentina, Austria, Brazil, Bulgaria, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Croatia, Cyprus, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, Finland, France, Ghana, Guatemala, India, Indonesia, Liberia, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Senegal, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Timor-Leste, Ukraine, Uruguay, Zimbabwe — see: Table of voting systems by nation.

The most important discovery from that era is a Neanderthal cranium ( c. 200, 000 BCE ), discovered near Gánovce, a village in northern Slovakia.

Slovakia is a landlocked Central European country with mountainous regions in the north and flat terrain in the south.

This article is about the demographic features of the population of Slovakia, including population density, ethnicity, education level, health of the populace, economic status, religious affiliations and other aspects of the population.

Its capital, Bratislava, is the largest financial centre in Slovakia.

After World War I, Czechoslovakia, the predecessor of the Czech Republic and Slovakia, acting to seize what they considered to be German possessions, expropriated the entirety of the Liechtenstein dynasty's hereditary lands and possessions in Bohemia, Moravia, and Silesia which compose the Czech Republic.

In Slovakia, the song " Hey, Slovaks " has been considered the unofficial song of the Slovaks throughout its modern history, especially at times of revolutions.

: Senecio vulgaris is considered to be native to Algeria, Libya, Morocco, Tunisia, Georgia, Republic of Adygea, Karachay – Cherkess Republic, Kabardino-Balkaria Republic, Republic of North Ossetia – Alania, Republic of Ingushetia, Chechen Republic, Republic of Dagestan, Amur Oblast, Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, Jewish Autonomous Oblast, Kamchatka Oblast, Koryak Autonomous Okrug, Khabarovsk Krai, Magadan Oblast, Primorsky Krai, Sakha ( Yakutia ) Republic, Sakhalin Oblast, South Korea, North Korea, Denmark, Faroe Islands, Finland, Iceland, Ireland, Norway, Sweden, United Kingdom, Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Germany, Hungary, Netherlands, Poland, Switzerland, Belarus, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Russian Central Federal District, Russian Southern Federal District, Ukraine, Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Italy, Romania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, the Republic of Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, and Slovenia, France and Portugal.

Traditionally, Kysuce is considered to be one of the poorest regions in Slovakia.

Furthermore, the archaeological Puchov culture, present in Slovakia in this period, is considered Celtic by mainstream scholars.

Among these were folk influences from Moravia and Slovakia, which at that time were considered culturally backward in the cosmopolitan Czech capital.

Despite its popularity in informal usage, the name is rarely recorded on birth certificates in countries such as Russia, Ukraine, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia, as it is considered a diminutive and not a formal name.

Šafárik – as opposed to most of his Czech colleagues – always considered the Slovaks a separate nation from the Czechs ( e. g. explicitly in his works Geschichte der slawischen Sprache ... and in Slovanský národopis ) but he advocated the use of Slovacized Czech (" Slovak style of the Czech language ") as the only literary language in Slovakia.

and Slovakia ( as Skrytá vášeň ) to the Philippines ( as Pasión de amor, Spanish of " Passion of Love ") — and is considered one of the most successful serials ever made.

* In Slovakia, education in minority languages has to be provided in municipalities where Slovak citizens speaking respective language constitute more than 20 % of population: higher, technical and vocational education-in Hungarian, a substantial part of technical and vocational education-in Ruthenian and Ukrainian, substantial part of pre-school education for those pupils whose families so request and whose number is considered sufficient — in Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, German, Polish and Roma.

It is considered to be one of the most beautiful castles in Slovakia.

Also, a considerable number of the figures who are today considered important in Hungarian culture were born in what are-since 1920 or since 1945-parts of Romania, Slovakia, Ukraine, Serbia and Austria ( see List of famous Hungarians who were born outside of present-day Hungary ).

They are also considered to be a part of the northern Rusyns ( Ruthenians ) who live mostly in Ukraine and in Slovakia, Poland, Romania, Czech Republic, and Hungary.

The language used in the translation was considered the best literary language in the Czech lands and in the area of today's Slovakia ( the so called bibličtina, Bible language ).

Any use of the word Felvidék to denote all of modern Slovakia is considered offensive by Slovaks, and inappropriate by some Hungarians, but it is now commonly used by the sizeable Hungarian minority in the southern border-zone of Slovakia to identify the Hungarian-majority areas where they live.

Other such Eastern European groups, although linked by profession, speak different languages and dialects, and are not considered part of the Ursari ; they include the Medvedara in Greece, Ričkara in Slovakia, and Roma Ayjides in the Istanbul area of Turkey.

The country was called the First Slovak Republic ( Slovak: prvá Slovenská republika ) or Slovak State ( Slovak: slovenský štát or Slovenský štát ) to distinguish it from the contemporary ( Second ) Slovak Republic, Slovakia, which is not considered its legal successor state.

Although the official policy of the Nazi regime was in favour of an independent Slovak state dependent on Germany and was opposed to any annexations of Slovak territory, Heinrich Himmler's SS considered ambitious population policy options concerning the German minority of Slovakia, which numbered circa 130, 000 people.