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long time before the first slovak republic the ancestors of todays slovaks lived on the territory of modern slovakia and hungary and the land was called sclavonia! even hungarian historians agree! before the magyars arrive at 1000 ad the slavic empires stretched from ukraine to croatia, after the magyars conquered great moravia and the bavarians conquered carantania and styria which were former slavic states the slavs were divided into smaller states and so were born the separated tribes of slovaks, czechs, slovenians, croats and serbs... the sclavoni are forefathers of modern slovaks and modern slovakia was part of sclavonia till we were separated by magyars 1000 ad
In 1029 St. Emeric, ruler of the Nitrian principality is called Henricus dux Sclavonie.
- In 1113 Nestor calls the territory of present-day Slovakia Slověnskaja zemlja (Slovak land). Official name of Slovakia in Slovak language is still Slovensko.
- In 1571 Slovakia is mentioned in Czech records: Slowáci jsou w krajině Slovenské... (Slovaks are in Slovak land...); or Na Moravě aSlowácých... (In Moravia and Slovakia...).
- In 1645 there's a record in German language In Schlowaken... - In Slovakia...
- In 1669 the Latin record proves that the Sclavonia term equals Slovensko = Slovakia in the Central European area: de pago Vrbka in Sklavonia - from a village Vrbka in Slovakia.
- In 1675 people of Broumovsko county ask the hetman in Uherské Hradiště about the exception of their county in borders conflicts: aby místa a chotary od Slovenska jsouci, přehlédnuté byly. - od Slovenska = from Slovakia.
- In 1697 we know about another German record Ein Slowak aus der Slowakei - A Slovak from Slovakia.
- In 1696 in a marriage register it's written Slovenka ze Slovák... - A Slovak woman from Slovakia.
Source: Kultúra Slova, ročník 26, číslo 8, 1992
Important notice! Present-day Slovakia as such was definitely integrated in the new Kingdom of Hungary in the 12th-13th century (by the centralization of the state), but as you can see, Slovakia was still perceived as a separated unit in the official documents.
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