The city lies in the east of Austria and is close to the borders of the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Hungary.

Tatras occupy an area of 750 km² ( 290 mi² ), of which the greater part ( 600 km² / 232 mi² ) lies in Slovakia, with the highest peak Gerlach at 2, 655 m ( 8710 ft ), located north of Poprad.

The city lies on the main road ( E 50 ) and railway connecting western and eastern Slovakia.

The region is situated between the High Tatras and the Dunajec River in the north, the springs of the Váh River in the west, the Slovenské rudohorie Mountains ( Slovak Ore Mountains ) and Hnilec River in the south, and a line running from the town of Stará Ľubovňa, via the Branisko mountain ( under which lies the 4, 822 m long Branisko Tunnel, currently the longest in Slovakia ), to the town of Margecany in the east.

Now his body lies in the St. John the Merciful Chapel in the St. Martin's Cathedral in Bratislava, Slovakia.

Its territory lies in present-day western Slovakia.

It lies in Komárom-Esztergom county, on the right bank of the river Danube, which forms the border with Slovakia there.

The town lies on the left bank of the Ipoly river, which marks the state border with Slovakia.

Hungary's most famous wine region lies in the foothills of the Zemplén Mountains of the far north of the country-in fact the traditional area crosses into the southeast corner of modern Slovakia.

In 1938 Germany annexed Austria and Italy assisted in Germany in resolving the diplomatic crisis between Germany versus Britain and France over claims on Czecholslovakia by arranging the Munich Agreement that gave Germany the Sudetenland and was perceived at the time to have averted a European war, these hopes faded when Hitler violated the Munich Agreement by ordering the invasion and partition of Czechoslovakia between Germany and a client state of Slovakia in 1939.

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.

Bilateral government, legal, technical and economic working group negotiations continued in 2006 between Slovakia and Hungary over Hungary's completion of its portion of the Gabcikovo-Nagymaros hydroelectric dam project along the Danube.

Poland's territory was divided between Germany and the Soviet Union, with Lithuania and Slovakia also receiving small shares.

The Tatra Mountains, Tatras or Tatra ( Tatry either in Polish and in Slovak-plurale tantum, Tátra in Hungarian ), are a mountain range which forms a natural border between Slovakia and Poland, and are the highest mountain range in the Carpathian Mountains.

54 BVP-2s and BVP-2Ks were ordered in 1994 from Slovakia and delivered between 1995 and 1996.

This area used to be part of the greater Tokaj-Hegyalja region within the Kingdom of Hungary, but was divided between Hungary and Slovakia after the Treaty of Trianon.

* There has also been a long-running dispute between Hungary and Slovakia over the right to use the name Tokaj.

The national ideology that the Slovaks are descended from the Slavs who inhabited the territory of present-day Slovakia between the 5th-10th centuries has a long story and it is connected with the ambition of the Slovaks to reach self-determination or autonomy within Hungary ( mostly under romantic nationalism of the 19th century and during the Slovak national revival ).

Komárno and Komárom are connected by the Elizabeth bridge, which used to be a border crossing between Slovakia and Hungary until border checks were lifted due to the Schengen Area rules.

It was situated in the easternmost strip of what is now Slovakia ( except for the region between Vihorlatské vrchy and the Latorica river ), plus a strip along the Bodrog and Tisza rivers in present-day Hungary.

* 2010: During a 2010 World Cup qualifier match between Poland and Slovakia on 14 October 2009, Seweryn Gancarczyk scored an own goal that qualified Slovakia to the World Cup finals for the first time.

This corresponds to the period between 82 – 44 BCE, when the Dacian state reached its widest extent during the reign of King Burebista: in the west it may have extended as far as the middle Danube River valley in present-day Hungary, in the east and north to the Carpathians in present-day Slovakia and in the south to the lower Dniester valley in present-day south-western Ukraine and the western coast of the Black Sea as far as Appollonia.

Dunajec in the Pieniny Środkowe Mountain range | range ( Slovak: Centrálne Pieniny ) forming a 27 km border between Poland and Slovakia

Dunajec forms a border between Poland and Slovakia for 27 kilometers in the Pieniny Środkowe ( Slovak: Centrálne Pieniny ) range, east of the Czorsztyn reservoir.

Contacts between the Czechs and Slovaks arose in the late fourteenth century, when Slovaks started to study at the University of Prague ; in the fifteenth century, with the campaigns of the Czech Hussite armies to Slovakia ; and in the seventeenth century, when Czech Protestants fled to Slovakia.

The post-1948 government has put a high priority on redressing the socioeconomic imbalance between the highly industrialized Czech lands and underdeveloped Slovakia.

As with medical care, the gap in life expectancy between the Czech lands and Slovakia was narrowed during this period.

By the mid-1970s, the historical disparity in educational resources between the Czech lands and Slovakia had been largely redressed.

Babia Góra ( in Polish ), or Babia hora ( in Slovak ), literally Old Wives ' or Witches ' Mountain, is a massif situated on the border between Poland and Slovakia in the Western Beskidy Mountains.

GDP per capita ranges from 178 % of EU average in Bratislava to only 49 % in Eastern Slovakia.

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Slovak Uprising was an uprising of Slovaks against Magyar ( i. e. ethnic Hungarian ) domination in Upper Hungary ( present-day Slovakia ), within the 1848 / 49 revolution in the Habsburg Monarchy.

Other European countries with a high rate of extramarital births are Belgium ( 49 %), Denmark ( 48. 6 %), UK ( 46. 9 %), Latvia ( 43. 7 %), Netherlands ( 43. 3 %), Hungary ( 42. 2 %), Czech Republic ( 41. 8 %), Finland ( 40. 8 %), Austria ( 40. 4 %), Luxembourg ( 34. 7 %), Slovakia ( 34. 0 %), Germany ( 33. 5 %).

** Slovakia: 49 % SSE

* Košice, Slovakia, has one grand union at 48 ° 42 ' 18 " N 21 ° 14 ' 35 " E

Once stationed at 28. 5 ° E, the satellite was promoted as providing satellite coverage for all of Europe, and featured both analogue and digital television and radio services serving Austria, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and other countries.

* Stone cult object in Slovakia ( Holic discovered in 1988, 48 ° 48 ' 31. 98 " N 17 ° 9 ' 41. 14 " E

Meanwhile Poland annexed the town of Český Těšín with the surrounding area ( some, some 250, 000 inhabitants, Poles made about 36 % of population ) and two minor border areas in northern Slovakia, more precisely in the regions Spiš and Orava.

It docked with Mir on February 22 at 05: 36 GMT with Cosmonauts Viktor Afanasyev of Russia, Jean-Pierre Haigneré of France, and Ivan Bella of Slovakia aboard.

The Movement for a Democratic Slovakia remained the largest party in the National Council, winning 36 of the 150 seats.

Czech Silesia borders Moravia in the south, Poland ( Polish Silesia ) in the north ( in the northwest the County of Kladsko, until 1742 / 48 an integral part of Bohemia ) and Slovakia in the southeast.