The Slovak wine region of Tokaj may use the Tokajský /- á /- é label (" of Tokaj " in Slovak ) if they apply the Hungarian quality control regulation.

Vintners in the Slovak wine region of Tokaj may use the Tokaj label ( or Tokajský /- á /- é which means “ of Tokaj ” in Slovak ) if they apply the Slovak equivalent of the Hungarian quality control regulations.

The dispute between the countries over the right of Slovakia to use the name Tokaj that started in 1958 for its wines was resolved in 2004-the two countries came to an agreement in June 2004 under which wine produced on 565 hectares of land in Slovakia will be able to use the Tokajský /- á /- é label (" of Tokaj " in Slovak ), providing that the Slovaks accept the Hungarian quality control regulations.

* Slovak has the acute ( á, é, í, ĺ, ó, ŕ, ú, ý ), the caron ( č, ď, dž, ľ, ň, š, ť, ž ), the circumflex ( only above o – ô ) and the diaeresis ( only above a – ä ).

In Germany, this game is called " Mensch ärgere dich nicht " which means " Man, don't get irritated ", and has equivalent names in Dutch, Serbo-Croatian, Bulgarian, Czech and Slovak.

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.

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.

Due to strong penetration of the Slovak market by mobile phones, the fixed lines sector has decreased dramatically in recent years.

Slovak Republic has been a member of European Union since 2004.

The Serbian form has parallels in virtually all Slavic languages: Bulgarian and Macedonian вампир ( vampir ), Croatian vampir, Czech and Slovak upír, Polish wąpierz, and ( perhaps East Slavic-influenced ) upiór, Ukrainian упир ( upyr < nowiki ></ nowiki >), Russian упырь ( upyr < nowiki >'</ nowiki >), Belarusian упыр ( upyr ), from Old East Slavic упирь ( upir < nowiki >'</ nowiki >).

Slovak industry has good prospects and is expected to grow rapidly.

Besides the international think tanks present in the surrounding countries as well ( with Open Society Foundations being the most notable one ) Slovakia has a host of its own think tanks as well, such as Institute of Public Affairs ( Inštitút pre verejné otázky or IVO in Slovak ) and Forum Minority Research Institute ( Fórum Kisebbségkutató Intézet or Fórum Intézet in Hungarian and Fórum inštitút pre výskum menšín or Fórum inštitút in Slovak ), with the latter concentrating on minority issues.

* Like all Slavic languages with the exception of Russian, Slovak and Slovene, the Ukrainian language has preserved the Common Slavic Vocative case.

* The Ukrainian language, in common with all Slavic languages other than Russian, Slovak and Slovene has retained the Common Slavic dative & locative endings-ce ,-ze, and-se in the female declension.

* The Ukrainian language, in common with Czech, Slovak, Upper Sorbian, Belarusian and southern Russian dialects has changed the Common Slavic " g " into an " h " sound ( for example, noha – leg ).

" Slovakia has a “ flat tax ” rate of 19 %," wrote the authors, " but its employers pay a 35. 2 % contribution to social security ( higher than the 34. 8 % in Belgium ) and, in addition to the flat income tax, employees have 13. 4 % deducted for social security ( also higher than the 13. 07 % in Belgium )," adding that a typical Slovak worker's Tax Freedom Day is a day later than a Finnish worker's.

He was also blamed for having engaged the Slovak secret service ( SIS ) in the abduction of the President ’ s son Michal Kováč, Jr. — wanted on a warrant for a financial crime in Germany — to Hainburg, Austria, in August 1995, but his guilt has not been proven.

From the Census Ancestry Question, Sharon has the following ethnic make-up: German 21 %, Irish 14 %, Italian 11 %, Black or African American 11 %, English 8 %, Polish 5 %, Slovak 5 %, Welsh-3 %, Scots-Irish 2 %, Hungarian 2 %, Dutch 2 %, French ( except Basque ) 2 %, Croatian 1 %, Scottish 1 %, Russian 1 %, Swedish 1 %, Arab 1 %, Slavic 1 %, American Indian tribes, specified 1 %.

The word has developed to take various forms in the modern Slavic languages, such as wojewoda ( Polish ), воевода ( voyevoda, Russian ), войвода or воевода ( voyvoda, voevoda, Bulgarian ), воєвода ( voyevoda, Ukrainian ), vévoda ( Czech ) and војвода ( vojvoda, Croatian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovene and Macedonian ).

She has also adapted Hindi, Yiddish, Serbian, Bulgarian, Slovak etc.

( Slovak is an example of a language that has both long and short consonantal nuclei.

As Tóno attempts to explain to Mrs. Lautmannová, who is oblivious of the world outside and generally confused, that he has come to be her supervisor and owner of the store, Imrich Kuchár ( Martin Hollý, Sr .), a Slovak opponent of Aryanization, steps in and reveals to Brtko that the business itself is less than profitable, as Lautmannová herself relies on donations.

Since January 2011 English has become a compulsory subject on Slovak matura.

The music of Slovakia has been influenced both by the county's native Slovak peoples and the music of neighbouring regions.

Outside of the United States, ELCA also has congregations in the Caribbean region ( Bahamas, Bermuda, Puerto Rico and the U. S. Virgin Islands ) and one congregation in the border city of Windsor, Ontario, a member of the Slovak Zion Synod.

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 ).

* Victor Herbert: Beloved Songs and Classic Miniatures ( 1999 ) recorded by Virginia Croskery, soprano, and Keith Brion conducting the Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, on the Naxos CD 8. 559. 26

Prior to his death of a heroin overdose in 1988, Slovak recorded two albums with the band, Freaky Styley ( 1985 ) and The Uplift Mofo Party Plan ( 1987 ).

Sony Japan released the soundtrack, which was recorded at the Slovak Radio Concert Hall in Slovakia with the Slovak National Symphony Orchestra.

* In 1989, the Marco Polo recording company commissioned the first commercial recording of the symphony, which was recorded in two blocks of sessions from 29 – 31 March ( Part One ) and 16 – 22 October ( Part Two ) at the Concert Hall of Slovak Radio ( Bratislava ).

The Slovak name of the mountain was first recorded as Kotol, also meaning " Cauldron ", in 1821.

His compositions have been recorded by trumpeter Jack Logan, pianists Jeff Jacob and Mark Adams, and the Slovak Radio Symphony.

Mr. Rohani has recorded several classical CDs with the Slovak Radio Symphony orchestra for Discover / Koch International including the Tchaikovsky Ballet music which received raging reviews by the media including the Intune Magazine in Japan.

Their performances were recorded by Slovak national TV and independent film producers.

After national discussion of dividing the country into a federation of three republics, Bohemia, Moravia-Silesia and Slovakia, Dubček oversaw the decision to split into two, the Czech Republic and Slovak Republic.

Vladimír Mečiar ( born 26 July 1942 ) is a former Slovak politician who served three times as Prime Minister of Slovakia serving from 1990 to 1991, from 1992 to 1994, and from 1994 to 1998.

The Slovak coat of arms is a slight variant of a prominent part of the Coat of arms of Hungary, where it is considered to symbolize the three principal mountain ranges of the pre-1918 Kingdom of Hungary: Mátra, Fatra, and the Tatras.

In the 10th century, the Slovak dialects are already divided in the three present-day groups ( Western, Central and Eastern Slovak dialects ).

After the establishment of Austria-Hungary ( 1867 ), the Hungarian government prohibits the only three Slovak high schools in Hungary ( founded in the 1860s ) in 1874-1875, and a strong Magyarization begins in Hungary.

In the meantime, the three writers ' unions ( Czechoslovak, Czech, and Slovak ), and especially the Czech Writers ' Union, set about grooming a younger generation of writers who, if not overwhelmingly devoted to socialism, were at least assiduously apolitical.

The party has been a member of the Slovak government three times: twice as the leading partner with Mečiar as Prime Minister ( 1992 – 4, 1994 – 8 ) and from 2006-2010 as the junior partner under Robert Fico of Direction – Social Democracy.

However, lingering memories of former anti-Europeanism, conflicting rhetoric, and the presence of three Slovak parties already in the EPP prevented this.

In the first round, she was defeated by the 8th-seeded Slovak Magdaléna Rybáriková in three sets, 2 – 6 6 – 4 4 – 6.

She then reached the quarter-finals of an ITF event in Clearwater, Florida, beating Lauren Embree of the USA and fellow Japanese player Aiko Nakamura before losing to third-seeded Slovak Jarmila Groth in three sets, 6 – 3 5 – 7 5 – 7.

Slovak and Upper-Sorabian languages ( national minority in Saxonia, part of Germany ) are quite similar to the Bohemian language and users of those three languages can understand each other without translation.

Triglav ( Serbian Latin, Bosnian, Croatian and Slovenian: Triglav ; Macedonian, Ukrainian, Russian, Bulgarian and Serbian Cyrillic: Триглав ; Czech and Slovak: Trihlav ; ) ( meaning ' three headed ') also sometimes called troglav is a deity in Slavic mythology.

During the Slovak National Uprising, the Slovak resistance used three armoured trains.

It encompasses the entire country ; candidates in this constituency are elected by voters belonging to 22 recognized minorities in Croatia: the Serb minority elects three MPs, the Hungarians and Italians elect one MP each, the Czech and Slovak minorities jointly elect one MP, and all other minorities elect the final two MPs.

* in Slovakia, July 1939-4 April 1945, three consecutive German Envoys and Ministers Plenipotentiary ( the old diplomatic style ) formally represented the Reich in the fascist puppet state ( 14 March 1939-3 April 1945 ) of Jozef Tiso ( b. 1887-d. 1947 ; former Czechoslovak Ministers for Slovak Affairs 6 October-28 November 1938 ) HSLS ( acting to 26 October 1939 ; from 1942 self-styled Vodca " Leader ", a typical extreme right nationalist Führer-imitation

Image: Dyje-Morava confluence 01. jpg | Thaya-Morava confluence-intersesction of three borders, Austrian, Czech and Slovak

Bohemian, Moravian, and Slovak immigrants and Czech-American citizens started the American Sokol Organization in St. Louis Missouri in 1865, only three years after the first Prague Sokol.

Slovak euro coins feature three separate designs for the three series of coins.

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