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The declaration announced: "The Slovak Nation is a part of the Czecho-Slovak Nation, united in language and in the history of its culture" [1] and declared that only the Slovak National Council, not the Hungarian government or any other authority, was authorised to speak for the Slovak nation. [3]
28 October – The formal declaration is made that the Czech and Slovak people are to no longer part of Austria-Hungary and instead the new state of Czechoslovakia. [6] 31 October – The Martin Declaration declares Slovak independence from Hungary and adherence to the new state. [7] 5 November:
The occupation of Martin by Hungarian troops prevented the SNR doing much following the declaration, other than issuing around 200 directives, [1] and it was dissolved by the new Czechoslovak government on 8 January 1919 [5] as part of a centralising drive by Vavro Šrobár, the government's Minister for Slovakia. [6]
The provisional government had begun drafting a declaration of independence on 13 October and completed its task on 16 October. The document was drafted by Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk and American sculptor Gutzon Borglum [3] (Borglum hosted future soldiers of a Czecho-Slovak army on his farm in Stamford, Connecticut. [4]) On 17 October, Masaryk ...
The main tasks entrusted to the Slovak Matica by the state and defined in the Act on the Slovak Matica include in particular: consolidating Slovak patriotism; to deepen the relationship of citizens to the Slovak statehood; to do basic Slovak research; to participate in the development of local and regional culture; to work in particular on young people in the spirit of national, moral and ...
The Slovak National Party (SNS, Slovak: Slovenská národná strana) was a Slovak conservative and nationalist political party in the Kingdom of Hungary and then in Czechoslovakia from 1871 to 1938. [1] The post-Velvet Revolution party with the same name sees the historical one as its ideological predecessor.
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 km 2 (19,000 sq mi), hosting a population ...
The Slovak National Council's Declaration of Independence of the Slovak Nation (Slovak: Deklarácia Slovenskej národnej rady o zvrchovanosti Slovenskej republiky) was a resolution of the Slovak National Council on 17 July 1992, by which members of the Council demanded Slovakia's independence although it was not a Unilateral Declaration of Independence.