South of poland and sharing borders with Austria,

Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Ukraine.

Geek Catholic-4.1% Other & Unspecified-3.2%

None-13% (2001 Census).

many traditional easter games & customs developed such as;

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

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

greeting from time of day is "dorbry den".

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).

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

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.

Communist block to adopt the Euro as its currency on

1 January 2009.