Slovakia
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Slovakia, officially the Slovak Republic (Slovak: Slovenská Republika,) is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is bordered by Poland to the north, Ukraine to the east, Hungary to the south, Austria to the southwest, and the Czech Republic to the northwest. Slovakia's mountainous territory spans about 49,000 square kilometers (19,000 sq mi), with a population of over 5.4 million. The capital (and largest city) is Bratislava, while the second-largest city is Košice.
History
The Slavs arrived in present-day Slovakia in the 5th and 6th centuries. In the 7th century, they played a significant role in creating Samo's Empire. In the 9th century, they established the Principality of Nitra, later conquered by the Principality of Moravia to establish Great Moravia. In the 10th century, after the dissolution of Great Moravia, the territory was integrated into the Principality of Hungary, which would then become the Kingdom of Hungary in 1000. In 1241 and 1242, much of the territory was destroyed after the Mongol invasion of Europe. The area was mainly recovered thanks to Béla IV of Hungary, who also settled Germans, leading them to become a crucial ethnic group in the area, especially in what are today parts of central and eastern Slovakia.
After World War I and the dissolution of Austria-Hungary, the state of Czechoslovakia was established. The first Slovak Republic existed during World War II as a partially recognized client state of Nazi Germany. At the end of World War II, Czechoslovakia was re-established as an independent country. After a coup in 1948, Czechoslovakia came under communist administration and became a part of the Soviet-led Eastern Bloc. Attempts to liberalize communism in Czechoslovakia culminated in the Prague Spring, which was crushed by the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia in August 1968. In 1989, the Velvet Revolution peacefully ended Communist rule in Czechoslovakia. Slovakia became an independent state on 1 January 1993 after the peaceful dissolution of Czechoslovakia, sometimes known as the Velvet Divorce.
Slovakia is a developed country with an advanced high-income economy, ranking very high on the Human Development Index. It also performs favorably in measurements of civil liberties, press freedom, internet freedom, democratic governance, and peacefulness. The country maintains a combination of a market economy with a comprehensive social security system, providing citizens with universal health care, free education, and one of the longest-paid parental leaves in the OECD. Slovakia is a member of NATO, CERN, the European Union, the Eurozone, the Schengen Area, the United Nations, the OECD, the WTO, the Council of Europe, the Visegrád Group, and the OSCE. It is the world's largest per-capita car producer; it manufactured 1.1 million cars in 2019, representing 43% of its total industrial output.
Spanking in Slovakia
Corporal punishment, especially spanking, has a long tradition in Slovakia. A spanking is known as bitka in Slovak, and the verb vyplieskat means "to spank".
In the 20th century, school corporal punishment fell out of fashion and was gradually banned in many countries, a trend that continues until the present day.
As of May 2008, Slovakia prohibits corporal punishment in schools.
School corporal punishment has been abolished in Slovakia, but the non-abusive domestic spanking of children is still legal.
Slovakia has Easter and spanking traditions; the "Easter whips" made from braided willow switches are called korbáč in Slovak.
Slovakian spanking artists
Vrrattko and perhaps Horislav.
Diseno Media HPS is an Austrian-Slovak spanking company that runs the spanking video site pain4fem and the download spanking video clip site SpankingServer.
External links
- More information is available at [ Wikipedia:Slovakia ]
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