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Slovakia is an attractive country for foreign investors mainly because of its low wages, low tax rates, well educated labour force, favourable geographic location in the heart of Central Europe, strong political stability and good international relations reinforced by the country's accession to the European Union. Some regions, mostly at the ...
Krompachy has a hospital with the following departments: surgery, emergency, gynecology and obstetrics, internal, as well as dermatology. There are six non-state healthcare institutions in the town, which together with two drug stores provide complete healthcare services.
Slovakia – landlocked sovereign country located in Central Europe. [1] Slovakia has a population of five and a half million and an area of 49,036 square kilometres (18,933 sq mi). [ 2 ] Slovakia borders the Czech Republic and Austria to the west, Poland to the north, Ukraine to the east and Hungary to the south.
Country Northernmost point Latitude Greenland : Kaffeklubben Island Cape Morris Jesup (mainland) 83°40′N 83°39′N Canada: Cape Columbia, Ellesmere Island, Nunavut Zenith Point (mainland) 83°06′N 72°00′N Russia: Cape Fligely, Rudolf Island, Franz Josef Land, Arkhangelsk Oblast Cape Chelyuskin, Krasnoyarsk Krai (mainland) 81°51′N 77 ...
Slovakia lies between 49°36'48" and 47°44'21" northern latitude and 16°50'56" and 22°33'53" eastern longitude. The northernmost point is near Beskydok, a mountain on the border with Poland near the village of Oravská Polhora in the Beskids. The southernmost point is near the village of Patince on the Danube on the border with Hungary.
The first transport of about 1,000 Jewish girls and young women left Poprad on 25 March 1942 for Auschwitz-Birkenau. By the end of 1942, when the deportations stopped, over 58,000 Jews had been deported from Slovakia to German-occupied Poland via Poprad. [4] Poprad was liberated on 28 January 1945 by troops of the Soviet 18th Army. The German ...
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)
Malacky (German: Malatzka, Hungarian: Malacka) is a town and municipality in western Slovakia around 35 kilometres (22 miles) north of Slovakia’s capital, Bratislava. From the second half of the 10th century until 1918, it was part of the Kingdom of Hungary.