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Slovakia, [a] officially the Slovak Republic, [b] is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is bordered by Poland to the north, Ukraine to the east, Hungary to the south, Austria to the west, and the Czech Republic to the northwest. Slovakia's mostly mountainous territory spans about 49,000 square kilometres (19,000 sq mi), hosting a ...
United Arab Republic: 1964–1968: Now Egypt (EGY) VOL Upper Volta: 1972–1984: Now Burkina Faso (BUR) WSM Western Samoa: 1984–1996: Now Samoa (SAM) YAR North Yemen code from Yemen Arab Republic: 1984–1988: Competed independently before Yemeni unification in 1990. Now Yemen (YEM) YMD South Yemen code from Yemen Democratic Republic: 1988 ...
The abbreviation is not always a short form of the word used in the clue. For example: "Knight" for N (the symbol used in chess notation) Taking this one stage further, the clue word can hint at the word or words to be abbreviated rather than giving the word itself. For example: "About" for C or CA (for "circa"), or RE.
Historically, Slovakia was not divided into kraje, but into counties (Slovak: župy or stolice). This was the case when present-day Slovakia was part of: Great Moravia (cca. 9th century) Kingdom of Hungary (cca. 11th / 12th century – 1918) Czechoslovakia (the župy existed 1918 – 1928) the WWII Slovak Republic (the župy existed 1940 – 1945)
According to Meyers Enzyklopädisches Lexikon, [100] Central Europe is a part of Europe composed of Austria, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Germany, Hungary, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Poland, Romania and Switzerland, and northern marginal regions of Italy and Yugoslavia (northern states – Croatia and Slovenia), as well as northeastern ...
Slovakia, a current state that became an independent country by the dissolution of Czechoslovakia in 1993, sometimes also called the Second Slovak Republic; Slovak Socialist Republic, a federal republic within Czechoslovakia from 1969 (losing the "Socialist" from the name in 1990) Slovak Republic (1939–1945), Germany's puppet ally during (and ...
The Government of the Slovak Republic (Slovak: Vláda Slovenskej republiky) exercises executive authority in Slovakia. It is led by the Prime Minister of Slovakia , who is nominated by the President of Slovakia and is usually the leader of the majority party or a majority coalition after an election to the National Council of the Slovak Republic .
Slovak People's Republic (Slovak: Slovenská ľudová republika) or the Eastern Slovak Republic (Slovak: Východoslovenská republika) was a short-lived state that lasted from 11 December to 29 December 1918. The Eastern Slovak National Council was established as an organisation concurrent to the Slovak National Council in November 1918. [1]