With the highest sustained GDP growth in the European Union, reporting 10. 4 % in 2007 and the highest rating from V4 countries, the Slovak economy has been considered a tiger economy known as the Tatra Tiger.

High Tatras or High Tatra ( Slovak and Czech: Vysoké Tatry, Polish: Tatry Wysokie ) are a mountain range on the borders between Slovakia and Poland.

The town of Poprad is the gateway to the Slovak Tatra resorts.

* 1944 – Slovak National Uprising takes place as 60, 000 Slovak troops turn against the Nazis.

* Slovak National Uprising Anniversary ( Slovakia )

* 1944 – World War II: Two supreme commanders of the Slovak National Uprising, Generals Ján Golian and Rudolf Viest are captured, tortured and later executed by German forces.

* 1944 – World War II: German forces capture Banská Bystrica during Slovak National Uprising thus bringing it to an end.

* National Council of the Slovak Republic

The latest elections took place on 17 June 2006, where leftist Smer won elections with 29. 14 % ( around 670 000 votes ) of the popular vote and formed coalition with Slota's Slovak National Party and Mečiar's Movement for a Democratic Slovakia.

The outstanding 49 % of the shares are still owned by the Slovak government through the Department of Transport, Construction and Regional Development of the Slovak Republic ( 34 %) and the National Property Fund ( 15 %).

* Day of the First Public Appearance of the Slovak National Council ( Slovakia )

* August 29 – WWII: The Slovak National Uprising against the Axis powers begins.

* July 17 – The Slovak National Council declares Slovakia an independent country, signaling the breakup of Czechoslovakia.

In August 1944, Dubček fought in the Slovak National Uprising and was wounded.

This mainly took the form of celebrations and commemorations, such as the 150th birthdays of 19th century leaders of the Slovak National Revival Ľudovít Štúr and Jozef Miloslav Hurban, the centennial of the Matica slovenská in 1963, and the twentieth anniversary of the Slovak National Uprising.

After the Slovak National Uprising in mid-1944, the Germans ended what little was left of the independence of Slovakia.

On 23 April 1991, the Presidium of the Slovak parliament ( Slovak National Council ) deposed him as premier of Slovakia and he was replaced by Ján Čarnogurský, the leader of the Christian Democratic Movement.

However, it was only in March 1994 that he was unseated as prime minister by the parliament ( National Council of the Slovak Republic ) and the opposition parties created a new government under Jozef Moravčík's lead.

However, after the elections held at the turn of September and October 1994, in which his HZDS won 35 % of the vote, he became prime minister again-in a coalition with the far-right Slovak National Party headed by the controversial Ján Slota, and the radical-left Združenie robotníkov Slovenska headed by the colourful Ján Ľupták, a mason.

A flourishing center for arts and culture in Eastern Iowa, the city is home to the Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, the National Czech & Slovak Museum & Library, the Paramount Theatre, Theatre Cedar Rapids, and the Iowa Cultural Corridor Alliance.

Yet tourism has been helping substantially the local economy since the late 19th century with sanatoria and winter sports resorts built in the High Tatras and the Low Tatras, the areas of natural beauty such as the Slovak Paradise ( Slovenský raj ) in the south-west and the Pieniny National Park at the Slovak-Polish border, and also the region's many historical sites like Spiš Castle and nearby-located Spišské Podhradie, Spišská Kapitula, Žehra and the town of Levoča ( all of which are listed by UNESCO as World Heritage Sites ), Kežmarok, and Stará Ľubovňa Castle.

It has been exhibited internationally at venues including The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, USA ( 1992 ), Manor Park Museum, London ( 1999 ), The Whitechapel Gallery, London ( 2006 ), Slovak National Gallery, Bratislava ( 2007 ), Halle Saint Pierre, Paris ( 2008 ), and Kunsthalle Schirn, Frankfurt a. M. ( 2010 )

On 1 March 2002 Slovak Karst National Park was declared.

* Slovak Karst National Park

Jadwiga is the Polish version, while Iga and Jadzia are Polish diminutives ; Jadvyga is a Lithuanian version ; Hedvika is a Czech and Slovene version ; Hedviga is a Slovak version, Ядвига ( Jadwiga ) is a Russian version.

In Turkish, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Lithuanian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Sallan, Slovak, Slovene, Spanish and Swedish the order is reversed ; the amount is followed by a fixed space and the ISO 4217 code:

Slovak uses the Czech-based system, as do Slovene and Croatian ; Kashubian uses a Polish-based system, while Sorbian blends the two.

The names of Silesia in the different languages most likely share their etymology — Latin and English: Silesia ; Polish: Śląsk ; Old Polish: Ślążsk ; Silesian: Ślůnsk ; German: Schlesien ; Silesian German: Schläsing ; Czech: Slezsko ; Slovak: Sliezsko ; Kashubian: Sląsk ; Upper Sorbian: Šleska ; Lower Sorbian: Šlazyńska.

* " Requiem in D Minor: Introitus and Lacrimosa " – written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ; performed by The Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir

* March 14 – The Slovak provincial assembly proclaims independence ; priest Jozef Tiso becomes the president of the independent Slovak government.

Władysław III of Varna is known in Hungarian as I. Ulászló ; in Polish as Władysław Warneńczyk ; in Slovak as Vladislav I ; in Czech as Vladislav Varnenčík ; in Bulgarian as Vladislav Varnenchik ( Владислав Варненчик ); in Lithuanian as Vladislovas III ; in Croatian as Vladislav I. Jagelović.

All Slavic languages derive their name for Saturday from the name for Sabbath: ( Czech / Slovak / Polish / Slovene: sobota ; Russian: суббота subbota, Serbian / Ukrainian субота subota ).

Arpadović, Slovak: Ondrej II., Serbian: Андрија II ) ( c. 1177 – 21 September 1235 ) was King of Hungary ( 1205 – 1235 ) and Croatia ( 1205 – 1235 ).

In older Czech and Slovak orthographies, ⟨ g ⟩ was used to represent, while was written as ⟨ ǧ ⟩ ( g with caron ).

Voight's paternal grandfather was a Slovak immigrant from Košice, then under Austro-Hungarian rule, while his maternal grandfather and his maternal grandmother's parents were immigrants from Germany.

Ribbentrop played an important role in setting in motion the crisis that was to result in the end of Czecho-Slovakia by ordering German diplomats in Bratislava to contact Father Jozef Tiso, the Premier of the Slovak regional government, and pressuring him to declare independence from Prague.

When as a result, Tiso had the Slovak regional government issue a declaration of independence on 14 March 1939, the ensuing crisis in Czech-Slovak relations was used as a pretext to summon the Czecho-Slovak President Emil Hácha to Berlin over his " failure " to keep order in his country.

Heydrich was attacked in Prague on 27 May 1942 by a British-trained team of Czech and Slovak soldiers who had been sent by the Czechoslovak government-in-exile to kill him in an operation code named Operation Anthropoid.

" Landsmål ", which is the foundation of modern Norwegian, was the first language to follow this program, and it was joined by modern Czech, Slovak, Finnish and later by Hebrew as nationalizing languages.

The gross domestic product was 1. 66 trillion Slovak korunas in 2006, equal to around 50 billion euros or 71 billion USD, which is around 8, 800 Euro or 13, 000 USD per capita.

The GDP per capita was 152, 786 SK in the Prešov Region in the north-east, 60 % of the national aveics. sk / showdoc. do? docid = 9728 Regional Gross Domestic Product per head at the Statistical Office of the Slovak Republic

The caretaker government was disbanded on 31 December 1992 together with the dissolution of the Czech and Slovak Federal Republic.

The Constitution of the Slovak Republic was ratified 1 September 1992 and became effective 1 October 1992 ( some parts 1 January 1993 ).

Since the establishment of the Slovak Republic in January 1993, Slovakia has undergone a transition from a centrally planned economy to a free market economy, a process which some observers were to believe was slowed in the 1994-98 period due to the crony capitalism and other fiscal policies of Prime Minister Vladimír Mečiar's government.

Slovak Telecom Inc. ( former Slovenské Telekomunikácie, a. s .) was privatised on July 18, 2000.

Slovak Telecom was rebranded to T-Com in the year 2003.

The legal regulation for liberalisation of the Slovak fixed line market was passed in 2002 and became valid by 1 January 2003, finally allowing competition in the sector of fixed lines.

One of the founders of the modern theory of steam and gas turbines was also Aurel Stodola, a Slovak physicist and engineer and professor at Swiss Polytechnical Institute ( now ETH ) in Zurich.

Stephen J. Ditko was born in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, the son of first-generation Americans of Slovak descent: Stephen Ditko, an artistically talented master carpenter at a steel mill, and Anna, a homemaker.

On 25 October 2005 it was announced that the Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Greek, Hungarian, Kazakh, Polish, Slovak, Slovene and Thai language radio services would end by March 2006 in order to finance the launch of an Arabic and Persian language TV news channel in 2007.

Collaborative software was originally designated as groupware and this term can be traced as far back as the late 1980s, when Richman and Slovak ( 1987 ) wrote:

Alexander Dubček (; 27 November 1921 – 7 November 1992 ) was a Slovak politician and, briefly, leader of Czechoslovakia ( 1968 – 1969 ), famous for his attempt to reform the communist regime during the Prague Spring.

During the war, Alexander Dubček joined the Communist Party of Slovakia ( KSS ), which had been created after the formation of the Slovak state and in 1948 was transformed into the Slovak branch of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia ( KSČ ).