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19 unusual facts about Slovakia


Břehy

Břehy is the name of several places in the Czech Republic and Slovakia.

Dávid family

The ancestors of the Dávid family were an older noble family of Záturecký from Záturčie (now part of Martin, Slovakia).

Fraňo Štefunko

Štefunko begins with his freelance work two years after coming to Martin and soon becomes one of the founders of Slovak sculpture.

Gymnasium Grösslingová

Secession building of today Gymnasium Grösslingová 18 in Bratislava, Slovakia, was built by architect Edmund Lechner in end of 1908 year.

Karel Plicka

Since 1988 there has been a museum dedicated to his work in the Slovak village of Blatnica.

Kučín

Kučín may refer to several places in Slovakia notably in the Prešov Region.

Lúčka

Lúčka may refer to several places in Slovakia.

Považská Bystrica

Chapel of Saint Helena was built in 1728 by count Peter Szaparay on the hill above the town, is surrounded by lindens of which one is more than 250 years old.

Pucov

Pucov may refer to several places in Czech republic and Slovakia.

Radošovce

Radošovce may refer to several places in Slovakia notably in the Trnava Region.

Seč

Seč, Prievidza District, a village in the Trenčín Region (Prievidza District) of Slovakia

Sedlice

Sedlice may refer to several places in Czech Republic and Slovakia.

Štefanovce

Štefanovce may refer to several places in Slovakia notably in the Prešov Region.

Surrender at Világos

Cavalry Captain Katlaroff and Count Rüdiger delivered the offer to Görgey, who was at Rimaszombat (now Rimavská Sobota, Slovakia), giving the Hungarian officers and men total freedom.

Teplička

Teplička may refer to several places in Czech Republic and Slovakia.

Turóc County

The capitals of the Turóc county were the Sklabiňa Castle and Martin (name until 1950: Turčiansky Svätý Martin); from 1772 only Martin was the capital.

Vrbovce

Vrbovce, Slovakia, a village and municipality in Myjava District, Trenčín Region, north-western Slovakia

Zlatno

Zlatno may refer to several places in Slovakia.

Zsolt Harsányi

Born in Korompa, Upper Hungary (modern day Slovakia; Krompachy in Slovakian), Harsányi descended from a long line of Hungarian writers.


Andrássy

The full family name is "Andrássy de Csíkszentkirály et Krasznahorka." "Csíkszentkirály" is a town in modern-day Romania now called Sâncrăieni, while Krásna Hôrka is a castle in Slovakia.

Anton Ondruš

Anton Ondruš (born 27 March 1950 in Solčany, Czechoslovakia) is a former Slovak football player and considered one of the best defenders of the seventies.

Apor Péc

When king Ladislaus IV led a campaign against Ivan Kőszegi and captured Kőszeg in 1286, Apor Péc, in alliance with Nicholas Kőszegi, besieged and occupied the castle of Pressburg (Pozsony; today Bratislava, Slovakia), as well as devastated its surrounding area in winter that year.

Bahá'í Faith in Slovakia

Prominent figures from Slovakia who are not themselves Bahá'ís have shown interest in Bahá'í projects and issues internationally, most recently on 13 December 2004 when the First Lady of the Slovak Republic, Silvia Gašparovičová, attended a prayer service at New Delhi's Lotus Temple, the Bahá'í House of Worship.

Bahon

Báhoň, a village and municipality in the Pezinok District of western Slovakia

Borough United F.C.

A 0-0 draw in Malta was followed by a 2-0 success at the Racecourse Ground in Wrexham — a more suitable venue than the tiny Nant-y-Coed ground with its single stand and spartan changing rooms — to set up a tie with Slovakian ŠK Slovan Bratislava.

Breznička

Breznička may refer to several places in Slovakia.

Civic Democratic Union

Public Against Violence / Občianska demokratická únia, a political movement in Slovakia.

Constitutional Act on the Czechoslovak Federation

The reform concerned Slovak autonomy; the concentration of governmental authority in Prague was a source of discontent within Slovakia throughout the 1960s, and the federalization of the Czechoslovak government codified in the 1968 constitutional amendments was virtually the only product of the reform movement associated with the Prague Spring to survive.

Dobšinská Ice Cave

Dobšinská Ice Cave or Dobšinská ľadová jaskyňa (in Slovak) is an ice cave in Slovakia, near the mining town of Dobšiná in the Slovak Paradise.

Elefánthy

The family split into several branches early on and as a result, in 1323, the estates were permanently split between two of the major branches, the Felsőelefánt (today Horné Lefantovce, Slovakia) and Alsóelefánt (today Dolné Lefantovce, Slovakia) branches.

FA Inter-League Cup

After a 1–2 defeat to the Bratislava team (Slovakia) a 3–2 win over the hosting Hradec Králové team left the side with a chance of qualifying for the finals.

Fantázia

The magazine was started in Šaľa, Slovakia by Ivan Aľakša, who served as its editor until 2006, when he withdrew to concentrate on publishing duties and was replaced by Juraj Malíček.

Ferdinand Konščak

At sixteen he finished the expected grades and was admitted to the novitiate of the Society of Jesus in Trenčín, Slovakia, where he stayed for two years.

Historical Logging Switchback Railway in Vychylovka

The Historical Logging Switchback Railway in Vychylovka (near Nová Bystrica, Slovakia) is preserved section technically most interesting part of the former narrow-gauge zig zag logging railway located in Kysuce and Orava region.

Hrubá

Hrubá Borša, village and municipality in western Slovakia in Senec District in the Bratislava Region

Humanic

Two years later Humanic opens its first store in Regensburg, Germany, and, in the same year, the first two stores in Bratislava, Slovakia.

Interoute

Interoute's offices: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States of America, plus a Network Operations Centre in Sofia and a Customer Service Centre in Prague and Luleå.

Jiří Třanovský

From 1631 until 1637, Třanovský was pastor at a church in Liptovský Svätý Mikuláš in present-day Slovakia.

Katarínka

Katarínka (German St. Katharein) are the ruins of a Franciscan monastery and church dating back to the early 17th century, located deep in the forests of the Little Carpathian Mountains (Malé Karpaty) in western Slovakia, 20 km north of Trnava over Dubovský creek, close to the villages of Dechtice, Naháč and Dobrá Voda.

Kochanovce

Adamovské Kochanovce, a village and municipality in Trenčín District, Trenčín Region, Slovakia

Kysuca

In the valley of Kysuca south of Čadca, a railway and an international road (currently E75, in the future D3) passes through it.

Language law of Slovakia

According to the European Bureau for Lesser-Used Languages (EBLUL), the President of the European Parliament, Jerzy Buzek, said the issue was beyond being simply an affair between Slovakia and Hungary and was becoming an issue of the whole European Union because it harms the spirit of European integration and the principles of democracy.

László Mednyánszky

Mednyánszky was born in Beckó, Kingdom of Hungary, Habsburg Monarchy (today Beckov in Slovakia), to Eduard Mednyánszky and Maria Anna Mednyánszky, (née Szirmay) both from landowning families.

Liptovský Mikuláš

The area is also well-known due to its location close to the biggest ski resort in Slovakia, Jasná.

Maria Gulovich Liu

As the winter arrived, Gulovich and the Americans were caught in a blizzard on Mt. Ďumbier, the highest mountain in the Low Tatra range in central Slovakia.

Martina Godályová

Martina Godályová (born 15 May 1975 in Šaľa) is a Slovak former basketball player who competed in the 2000 Summer Olympics.

Mashiska Washington

After beating Juan Ignacio Chela in the 1999 Legg Mason Tennis Classic, Washington received another US Open wildcard, this time into the main singles draw, where he lost in the first round to Slovakia's Ján Krošlák in four sets.

Melle van Gemerden

Van Gemerden was a member of the Netherlands team which took on Slovakia in the 2005 World Group quarter-finals and appeared both in the doubles, with Paul Haarhuis, and in the singles against Michal Mertiňák.

Michal Habai

Habai came to Scotland at the age of 27, having spent his career playing in his homeland of Slovakia, with a spell in the Czech Republic with Druhá liga side Baník Sokolov.

Nádasdy family

Of its many holdings, the family held the Nádasdy Castle in Sárvár, Hungary, the Csejte Castle, in Čachtice, Slovakia which is situated on a hill adjacent to a nature reserve, and the Nádasdy Mansion in Nádasdladány, Hungary.

Petr Kašpar

Petr "Kafé" Kašpar (born 26 June 1960 in Kolín) is a retired Czech football defender and currently executive currently serving as Director General of Slovak football club Slovan Bratislava.

Pittsburgh Agreement

Bielek, born in Slovakia, was vice-president and director of the Czecho Slovak Commercial Corp. of America, an import company founded in 1918.

Statue of Lenin, Seattle

Venkov's work was completed and installed in Poprad, Czechoslovakia (now Slovakia), in 1988, shortly before the fall of Czechoslovak communism during the 1989 Velvet Revolution.

Stephen Varzaly

Varzaly was born October 6, 1890 in the village of Fulianka, Austria-Hungary (now Slovakia) and studied at the Greek Catholic Seminary in Prešov.

Trenčianske

Trenčianske Jastrabie, village and municipality in Trenčín District in north-western Slovakia

Trenčianske Bohuslavice, village and municipality in Nové Mesto nad Váhom District in western Slovakia

Ung County

The towns of Veľké Kapušany and Sobrance are now in Slovakia; the other towns mentioned are in Ukraine.

Vienna Volksoper

In 1987, the opera house was used for a scene set in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia (now part of Slovakia), for the James Bond film The Living Daylights, where Timothy Dalton made his debut as Bond near the very beginning of the film, where he first spotted the key female character Kara Milovy (played by Maryam d'Abo).

Vojka

Vojka nad Dunajom, village in the Dunajská Streda District, Slovakia

White Carpathians

In this area, Lednica castle is located, perhaps the most inaccessible one amongst the castles in Slovakia.

Zoltán Tildy

He was born in Losonc (Lučenec now in Slovakia), in the Austro-Hungarian Empire to the family of a Hungarian official in the local government.