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The Cathedral of St. Elizabeth is the largest church in Slovakia, with a total area of 1,200 square metres (13,000 sq ft) and a capacity of more than 5,000 people. It is the main church in the Archdiocese of Košice , and is one of Europe's easternmost Gothic cathedrals.
The Church of St. Elizabeth (Slovak: Kostol svätej Alžbety, Hungarian: Szent Erzsébet templom), commonly known as Blue Church (Modrý kostolík, Kék templom), is a Hungarian-Secessionist (Jugendstil, Art Nouveau) Catholic church located in the eastern part of the Old Town in Bratislava, present-day Slovakia.
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.
at the same time the St. Cyril and Methodius Day; Probably marks the assassination of Matúš Černák, a former minister of the WWII Slovak Republic and then leader of the Slovak exile, in Munich in 1955; 17 July (1992) Independence Day: Výročie deklarácie o zvrchovanosti SR: Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence of the Slovak Republic
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Initially, Slovakia experienced more difficulty than the Czech Republic in developing a modern market economy. Slovakia joined NATO on 29 March 2004 and the EU on 1 May 2004. Slovakia was, on 10 October 2005, for the first time elected to a two-year term on the UN Security Council (for 2006–2007).
The most dominant historical monument of the city is Slovakia's largest church, the 14th century Gothic Cathedral of St. Elizabeth; it is the easternmost cathedral of western-style Gothic architecture in Central Europe, [71] and is the cathedral of the Archdiocese of Košice.
The constitution of (future) independent Slovakia was adopted in Bratislava: 15 September: Day of Our Lady of the Seven Sorrows, patron saint of Slovakia: Sviatok Panny Márie Sedembolestnej, patrónky Slovenska: The Patron saint of Slovakia is Our Lady of the Seven Sorrows: 28 October (1918)† Day of the Establishment of an Independent Czecho ...