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Bratislava, Slovakia City History

Bratislava, Slovakia City History

First settlements and founding of the city The first written references to today’s city of Bratislava can be found in the so-called “ Salzburg annals” from the year 907. A place called Brezalauspurc was mentioned in a document. Other spellings (for example in Johannes Aventinus from the year 805) give the name Braslavespurch or pressal expression. However, scientific studies have shown that the area around today’s Slovak capital was already settled in the Neolithic Age (around 5700 BC). These first…

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Slovakia Public Policy

Slovakia Public Policy

Current policy Slovakia is a country located in the region of Eastern Europe. See abbreviation for Slovakia. Slovakia was ruled in 2012 to 2020 by the Social Democratic Smer-SD. The murder of a journalist in the spring of 2018 led to a political crisis and widespread popular protests against widespread corruption in the country. The demands for change led to Smer-SD losing the election in February 2020. From 2016, Smer-SD led a coalition government where the right-wing extremist SNS, known…

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