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• Great Moravian architecture From the 9th century, the history of Slovakia has been materialised in written sources. Old Slavonic names of settlements and names of important people captured in the writings are the oldest evidence of the development of the national identity of ...
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• Gastronomy in the past by Vladimír Tomčík Due to a common past Slovak cuisine is closely linked to Hungarian, Czech and Austrian cuisine. Other factors have also affected it - Turkish ingredients and Turkish recipes, studies of the Štúr generation in the German town of ...
• The formation of Slavic states During the era of the migration of nations, significant changes in ethnic settlement and civilisation took place in the Carpathian Valley. By the 5th century Slavic tribes had settled the area, occupying lands abandoned by Germanic tribes fleeing the Huns and ...
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