1. MEGAN 8-1 SLOVAKIA Population: 5.48 million Capital: Bratislava 49 035 square km

2. GEOGRAPHY Hungary, Poland, Czech Republic, Romania and Austria Man peering out of a man- Hole made by Viktor Hulik In Bratislava, Slovakia Climograph Of the weather In one year The ‘man peering out of a hole” Is a popular and regularly Visited statue in Bratislava because People like the unique twist of a Statue in the ground. -modern -art -street -culture -man made

3. ARCHAEOLOGY 400- Slavs inhabited the region now known as Slovakia and Czech Republic 1918- Czechs and Slovaks came together, creating Czechoslovakia 1942- Approximately 57,000 Jews deported to Poland in WW11, and most of them were killed. 1969- The nation then became the Slovak Socialist Republic of Czechoslovakia 1992- Slovakia's government declared its independence from Czechoslovakia, creating it’s own country separated from the Czechs.

4. POLITICAL SCIENCE / SOCIOLOGY The government is parliamentary democtatic. They have a PM and a PRE: Ivan Gasparovic and Robert Fico Slovakia became an independent country when it separated It’s connection with Czech Republic in January 1992. It was called Czechoslovakia before. Czech Republic now borders Slovakia to it’s west.

5. ECONOMICS Slovakia produces brown coal and lignite, some iron, copper and manganese ore, arable land and salt. German, Czech Republic, France and Poland are their biggest trade-exports. Slovakia’s money is called ‘Euro’. Banks: Eximbanka SR National Bank of Slovakia

6. ECONOMICS Slovakia produces brown coal and lignite, some iron, copper and manganese ore, arable land and salt. German, Czech Republic, France and Poland are their biggest trade-exports. Slovakia’s money is called ‘Euro’. Banks: Eximbanka SR National Bank of Slovakia

7. SOCIAL WELFARE Slovakia offers low-cost a social welfare system attending to the un accessible basic needs of no income citizens.

8. HISTORICAL ARTIFACTS Devin Castle Created in 864 And in power until The 15 th century. It was last re-constructed In the 17 th century.

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