Slovakia's past

Slovakia has a past worth more than you might think. There are many written paragraphs about Slovakia ever since 7th century. That is when the first kingdom was created on today's Slovakia's land.

When there was another kingdom, "Cyril & Methodius" came here to Slovakia (at that time to The Great Moravian Empire) to spread God's words to the people. At that point, religion was written only into 3 languages (greek,latin and hebrew), so people at the time living in "Slovakia" didn't understand  anything  while "church time" because the pastors were from the French Kingdom and they were saying it in Latin (and people did not understand it). So Cyril and Methodius came with a new "alphabet" named "hlaholika" (overtime renamed to "cyrilika" after Cyril - one of their prentice remade it after they died). Overtime, hlaholika became a 4th "alphabet" that Christian religion could be spreaded with. So people became happy, praying to their God and understanding it.
That was a monumental thing for our country (and a lot of other countries because hlaholika is just a past version of today's russian and greek alphabet).

Castles

There are a lot of old castles in Slovakia. Some are destroyed, and some are still used (like the one in the capital - Bratislava). We also have the second biggest castle in Europe here: the Strečno castle (the Strechno castle):

But that does not hide the fact that a lot of old, interesting and cool castles are in Slovakia (and a lot of them):

And that is not even all of them!

A lot of those castles have been through different kings and queens, have different crazy pasts and has been through a lot of different wars, and you cannot even see some of them in a "usable" situation.

World War II

During the WWII Slovakia was an important country for Europe. Especially the town Martin. Here we made tanks to go on the war.
Until year 1943 Slovaks ad to join the German side to push the East side coming (Russians, Ukraines...).
Culture and industry was still growing during the WWII.
About 67 000 Slovak people died in concentration camps during the WWII .
4th of April 1945 Slovaks push Germans out of Slovakia - Czechoslovakian republic is reattached.