Slovak National Uprising
Slovaks stood up against fascists near the end of the Second World War. What were the circumstances, who were the people fighting in the uprising and how does Slovak society view these events today?
Slovaks stood up against fascists near the end of the Second World War. What were the circumstances, who were the people fighting in the uprising and how does Slovak society view these events today?
Akshay Kumar Dixit left India in 1986, making Bratislava his new home. In this time he's mastered the Slovak language and built up a business, but there will always be cultural differences and challenges ...
The sounds of the wind in the trees and birds singing was replaced by the clamour of tank tracks and foreign soldiers on the morning of August 21, 1968.
The 1968 invasion and occupation of Czechoslovakia, which happened 50 years ago today, has been covered in depth, in books and documentaries - but now a different perspective has emerged, due to a very ...
Café restaurant Slávia was built in a wonderful Art Nouveau style, where you can feel like in the 1920s, waiting for some stylish jazz music finally to start playing…
There is a dance troupe called Kriváň in the Argentinian city of Berisso. Run by the local Slovak community, enjoying traditional Slovak folk dances and thus preserving the culture of their predecessors. ...
There is something about the outside of a horse that is good for the inside of a man, once said Winston Churchill. The Czech politician and the first President of Czechoslovakia Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk ...
The Bojná archaeological site doesn't only work as a showroom of ancient Slavic housing. It also offers the possibility to walk down the road on which the Slavic saints and evangelists Cyril and Methodius ...
Why do Slovaks celebrate the day of Cyril and Methodius on the 5th of July, while other Slavic nations don't? Adam Hudek from the Institute of history of the Slovak Academy of Sciences sheds light from ...
The two brothers, Cyril and Methodius, both priests, were summoned to the territory of Great Moravia, now a part of the Czech Republic and Slovakia, by the ruler Rastislav in 863. He took this step in ...