Who are the Slovaks?

[HungAryan]

What is now "Slovakia" is actually Northern Hungary.
But where did they come from? Did they magically appear in 1918? Or did they emerge in the Middle Ages?

The Theories:
A) Great Moravian Theory: This theory says that Slovaks the descendants of the inhabitants of the Great Moravian Empire.
B) Czecho-Polish Theory: This theory says that the Slovaks emerged after the Mongol invasion of Hungary in the 13th century. King Béla of Hungary drew in immigrants from Czechia and Poland to compensate for the loss of population (50% of Hungary's population were killed during the Mongol invasion), and the Slovak ethnicity was born out of the mixing between Czech and Polish immigrants to Northern Hungary.
C) Slavicized Magyar Theory: This theory says that Slovaks are in fact (genetically) Hungarians who have been forced/brainwashed into speaking a Slavic language, namely Slovak, a dialect of Czech. Hungarian Nationalists often use this to brand Slovakia as an "artificial state" to justify their territorial claim on it.

Backing Up:
A) Great Moravian Theory: There is nothing that backs this theory up, apart from the fact that modern-day Slovakia was part of the Great Moravian Empire. Totally fake. The same thing as the Romanian "Daco-Roman theory", and the Albanian "Illyrian theory". Nothing but nationalist propaganda that has no historical basis. At least that's what we say.
B) Czecho-Polish Theory: In the 19th century, there were records about the existence of Slovaks in Austro-Hungarian records (1880 census map 1910 census map), and there were records about enforced Hungarization of Slovaks.
C) Slavicized Magyar Theory: The only evidence to back this theory up is the fact that DNA testing has concluded that Slovaks are genetically much closer to Hungarians than to Czechs or Poles. Hungarians and Slovaks are nearly identical genetically. Slovaks and Hungarians are indistinguishable from each other based on appearance.

[bluesky]

mainly Czecho-Polish and some of them might be mixed with hungarians.

[W. R.]

This theory says that Slovaks are in fact (genetically) Hungarians who have been forced/brainwashed into speaking a Slavic language

Who and when did that?

[Yaroslav]

Obviously they are Moravians.

[Crn Volk]

I've read that they're a fake nation, only 200 years old. This usually comes from Magyar nationalists. Is this true?

[TheMaestro]

I've read that they're a fake nation, only 200 years old. This usually comes from Magyar nationalists. Is this true?

Sorry to inform you, that Slovakia has not the same case as Macedonia.

I guess you've never heard about Principality of Nitra or Samo's Empire. Great Moravia was also basically western Slavic empire a.k.a Slovaks and Czechs.

[Crn Volk]

Sorry to inform you, that Slovakia has not the same case as Macedonia.

I guess you've never heard about Principality of Nitra or Samo's Empire. Great Moravia was also basically western Slavic empire a.k.a Slovaks and Czechs.

No mention of ethnic Slovaks in those states.

[Russki]

Bring back Czechoslovakia

[TheMaestro]

Bring back Czechoslovakia

Not really, Slovaks were secondary citizens. And after the spliting Slovak politicians sold and privatized everything they could. Czechs did much better, less emotional and a bit more rational than Slovaks. Although Slovaks have better culture imo. And also they are both racist as fuck.

[Jana]

Bring back Czechoslovakia

Why? No need at all, both countries are doing great and Slovaks are finally bosses in their own house.

Not really, Slovaks were secondary citizens. And after the spliting Slovak politicians sold and privatized everything they could. Czechs did much better, less emotional and a bit more rational than Slovaks. Although Slovaks have better culture imo. And also they are both racist as fuck.

Are Slovaks emotional tho? Probably yes compared to Czechs, but hardly to south Slavs(and maybe even Ukrainians for eg). My friend has been living in Bratislava for years. She say Slovaks are cold and "gray".
Her best friends in there are Slovak Hungarians, she says they're different and quite more warm/friendly.

And yeah, I agree they seem pretty racist. Her husband is East Asian and has been attacked twice by skineheads so far, that would never happen here (lived in Cro for years, never any issues, people were super friendly and curious towards him)