Slovakia

Slovakia is a small country in the Central Europe. There isn’t any sea. There are mountains, but there are lowlands, too. The area of Slovakia is 49 035km. There live about 5milion 500 thousand people. The currency is euro. There is only one true language, it’s Slovak language. It has five neighbours: in the north it has a border with Poland, in the east it has a border with Ukraine, in the south Slovakia has border with Hungary and in the west Slovakia has a border with Austria and with Czech Republic.

The capital city of Slovakia is Bratislava and approximately 450 000 (four hundred and fifty thousand) inhabitants live in this historical town. Slovakia is populated by more than 5.3 million inhabitants.

Catles and cavesOne of national nature monument is The Demänovska Ice

cave. It’s situated in Demänovska valley in Short Tatras. It’s 1750m long. Ice is only in down parts of cave. People found the bones of cave bear there. People found this cave in about 1710. There are many other caves in Slovakia. For example Domica cave, Gombasecka cave, Belianska cave... On the world are only two caves like Ochtinska Aragonit cave. There are in Mexico, Argentine and in Slovakia. It’s vary nice.

In Slovakia there are many castles. Near Presov are Kapušiansky castle and Šarišsky castle. Kapušiansky castle is important castle. It was built in 13century, on Zámočisko. Under it is village Kapušany. In 1715 Prešov capture it and next it start to beruin

Castles in Slovakia

Spišsky castle Bratislavsky castle

Oravsky castle

Kapušiansky castle Smolenicky castle

Bojnicky castle

Caves in Slovakia

Demänovska Ice cave Belianska cave

Harmanecka cave Bystrianska cave

Slovakia food

Cheese dumplings with bacon

HistoryThe first objects in this territory were built by the

Celts, later the Romans came to the Danube (Gerulata-Rusovce). The Slavs started to settle this territory in the 5th century and the Great Moravian Empire was established in the 9th century. The 14th and 15th centuries were a time of the development of the royal and mining cities (Banská Štiavnica, Kremnica, Banská Bystrica, Gelnica). Slovakia was the political, cultural a economic centre of the Hungarian Empire for three centuries (the 16th – 18th ). The Slovak Republic was constituted as an independent country on 1 January 1993.

Presentation created:Klaudia Nguyenová Marek OrlickyKristian Nemček 8.B