Slovaks
The Slovaks (Slovak: Slováci, singular: Slovák, feminine: Slovenka, plural: Slovenky) are a West Slavic ethnic group and nation native to Slovakia who share a common ancestry, culture, history and speak the Slovak language. In Slovakia, c. 4.4 million are ethnic Slovaks of 5.4 million total population. There are Slovak minorities in many neighboring countries including Austria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Serbia and Ukraine and sizeable populations of immigrants and their descendants in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, United Kingdom and the United States among others, which are collectively referred to as the Slovak diaspora.
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MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 26 July 2022 English
Much of today’s international order can be traced to the experimentations with governance that occurred in central Europe immediately after World War I. And though Western governments did not bring …
other subject peoples such as the Czechs or the Slovaks.69 In contrast, Russian treatment of its Polish … to oppressed minorities like the Romanians or Slovaks might be impossible if the Hungarian government …
MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 May 2022 English
Russia’s illegal annexation of Crimea in 2014 and the ongoing war in eastern Ukraine have brought scholarly and public attention to Ukraine’s borders. Making Ukraine aims to investigate the various …
interwar Czechoslovakia: the Czechs dominated, the Slovaks had been reduced to a “younger branch” of the “Czechoslovak …
MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 1 May 2022 English
The first comprehensive account of the making of Ukraine’s borders during the twentieth century. Russia’s illegal annexation of Crimea in 2014 and the ongoing war in eastern Ukraine have brought …
interwar Czechoslovakia: the Czechs dominated, the Slovaks had been reduced to a “younger branch” of the “Czechoslovak …
Wilson Center Canada · 12 January 2022 English
Ninth, convergence opens the way for a Kosovo settlement that impedes 'Greater Albania' and 'Greater Serbia.' The more unitary the Republic of Kosovo, with the country’s north and south intact, …
of good relations between ethnic Hungarians and Slovaks, the separatist threat in Slovakia has typically … before reverting to an 69 About 50,000 ethnic Slovaks also live in Vojvodina, where they have special …
MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 November 2021 English
Karlo Basta’s surefooted treatment of asymmetric federalism to accommodate the presence of more than one nation in a single state is as original as it is sound. Joining the logic …
each country: Quebeckers, Catalans, Croats, and Slovaks.13 While the motives behind these challenges varied …
MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 2021 English
1683 siege of Vienna. Michels reveals a complex environment in which Calvinist Hungarians, Lutheran Slovaks, Lutheran Germans, and Orthodox Ukrainians worked to defend their religion against brutal Habsburg …
City of Cambridge, Ontario · 15 October 2020 English
The Act amends the Residential Tenancies Act, 2006 (RTA), to deliver on the commitment to freeze residential rent increases in 2021 to give the vast majority of Ontario tenants some …
Ottoman Turks, Poles, Romanians, Russians, Serbians, Slovaks, Slovenes, among others of which most were Ukrainians …
UAP: University of Alberta Press · 11 February 2019 English
From 1914 to 1920, thousands of men who had immigrated to Canada from the Austro-Hungarian Empire were imprisoned as enemy aliens, many with their families. Most were Ukrainians; almost all …
freedoms.”9 Poles, Romanians, Russians, Serbians, Slovaks, Slovenes, amongst others. Most were Ukrainians; …
CHA: Canadian Historical Association · 22 October 2018 English
The success of redress campaigns has often depended on a number of factors, including the particular government in power and its will- ingness to negotiate, the complexity of the legal …
included Austrians, Hungarians, Croats, Serbs, Slovaks, and Poles in addition to Ukrainians; thus, definitive …
UMP: University of Manitoba Press · 24 August 2018 English
During the Cold War, more than 36,000 individuals entering Canada claimed Czechoslovakia as their country of citizenship. A defining characteristic of this migration of predominantly political refugees was the prevalence …
inau- gural congress of the National Alliance of Slovaks, Czechs, and Subcarpathian Ruthenians, June 1939 … postwar migration of predominantly ethnic Czechs and Slovaks was the preva- lence of anti-communist and pro-democratic … Czechoslovakian heritage.2 The Czechs and the Slovaks formed separate ethnocultural groups. During Czechoslovakia’s … Czechoslovakia’s existence from 1918 to 1992, a majority of Slovaks opposed a common “Czechoslovak” nationhood often … often promoted by Czechs and a minority of Slovaks. Existing scholarship on Slovak immigration to Canada …
