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Original Slovakian Flag.

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Štefan Banič (1870-1941) invented the first actively used parachute, patenting it in 1913.

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Slovakia became the second country from the former

Communist block to adopt the Euro as its currency on

1 January 2009.

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Tennis champion Martina Hingis (born in 1980), former World No. 1 and winner

of five Grand Slam singles titles and nine Grand Slam women's doubles titles,

was born in Slovakia to a Slovak father and a Czech mother.

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Slovakian is the referred name for Slovak

language belonging to west slavic languages

(together with Czech, Polish, Kashubar and

Sorbian). Slovak is Mutually intelligable with

Czech. It did not exist until the 18th Century

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Slvak Dinner you have to arrive on time, dress well. Punctuality is appreciated.

You have to wait for host to say "do brou chut" before you begin eating.

The napkins must remain folded as a sign of respect and tradition.

The most common toast is "Lina Zdraivie " (to you health).

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Greeting in Slovakia are warm but not effusive

The most common greeting will be a handshake direct eye contact and relevant

greeting from time of day is "dorbry den".

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Tradition Easter is time for Celerbation & Feastin with Family

many traditional easter games & customs developed such as;

Egg Rolling, Egg Tapping, Pace Egging & Egg Decorating.

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Roman Catholic-68.9% Protestant-10.8%

Geek Catholic-4.1% Other & Unspecified-3.2%

None-13% (2001 Census).

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Slovakia is in Central Europe,

South of poland and sharing borders with Austria,

Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Ukraine.