What is the Difference Between Slavonia, Slovakia and Slovenia?
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Outside of Europe, there seems to be some confusion about the many nations and regions within the continent. The breakup of the former Yugoslavia along with the separation of the former Czechoslovakia, has yielded three similarly named, but very different entities.
Slavonia is a region in eastern Croatia (which is one of the states that made up the former Yugoslavia). The region includes two primary rivers, namely the Drava and the Sava. It is a fertile agricultural area that is home to about 750,000 people. The biggest cities are Osijek and Slavonski Brod.
Slovakia is a small country in Eastern Europe. The capital is Bratislava, and the population is about 5.5 million. The relatively new nation began its statehood when Czechoslovakia split into the Czech Republic and Slovakia on 1 January 1993. Slovakia is bordered by Austria on the west, the Czech Republic and Poland on the north, Ukraine on the east, and Hungary on the south.
Slovenia is a small country that was formerly a part of Yugoslavia. Slovenia has a population of about 2 million and the capital is Ljubljana. The country is bordered by Italy on the west, Austria on the north, Hungary on the east and Croatia on the south. Slovenia is also a relatively new nation; it declared its independence from Yugoslavia on 25 June 1991.
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In 884 Cyril and Metod created first Czechoslovakian language-or what was the base for it. just because slovakian people were under hungarian-australian kingdom, doesn't mean they came "later." - anon48192
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Anon15015 -- the Magyars entered the Carpathian Basin in 895. The Slovaks came much later. - anon15020
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The term "nation" has multiple meanings including a group of people within an ethnic family, speaking the same language, and, *more commonly*, a group of people within a particular territory with its own government.
And, when did Eastern Europe become such a bad term? My family is from Slovakia, and when people don't know where it is, I say it's in Eastern Europe. The term "Central Europe" didn't really exist anyway until the end of the Cold War. Even after that time, there is dispute as to what countries are part of Central versus Eastern Europe. Plus, there's Northern, Southern, and Southeastern Europe. Who cares about these minor distinctions anyway? - stare31
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Slovakia is *not* in eastern Europe. And if the state of Slovaks is new, it doesn't mean that nation is new. Slovaks have been living in central Europe for many centuries. - anon15015
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Even though Slovak and Slovenian languages are different, they sound very similar and a long time ago they were probably one language, as both nations call their own language "slovenski" (slovenian) or "slovensky" (slovak). - anon3939
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The Slovak nation is not a new one. It is very, very old, older than than the Hungarian nation because Slovaks were in Slovakia and Hungary earlier than Hungarians who assimilated with the Slovaks living in Hungary. - anon3938
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All three, Slavonia, Slovakia, and Slovenia are inhabited by Slavic people, but all three have different languages. - anon117
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