Slovakia Republic

Slovakia is a landlocked country in Central Europe and a member state of the European Union.

Before the WWI Slovakia was part of the Austrian Empire and Austria-Hungary. In 1918, following the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian empire, Slovakia joined the regions of Bohemia and neighboring Moravia to form an independent Czechoslovakia

Under pressure from Nazi Germany, the First Slovak Republic declared its independence from Czechoslovakia in 1939. The government was strongly influenced by Germany and gradually became a puppet regime.

After World War II, pre-war Czechoslovakia was reestablished. The country were a Communist state from 1948 until the 1989 Velvet Revolution. On 1 January 1993, the Czechoslavakia peacefully split into the Czech and Slovak republics.