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slipper limpet (snail)
...or flattened shell has a decklike half partition inside. Slipper shells occur worldwide in shallow waters. Adults are fixed to rocks or live within the empty shells of other mollusks. The common Atlantic slipper shell (C. fornicata), often called slipper limpet, is about 4 cm (1.5 inches) long and yellowish; it is abundant from Nova Scotia to Texas. In addition, C. fornicata......
slipper lobster (crustacean)
The mainly tropical slipper lobsters (Scyllaridae) are rather flat and clawless, with antennae flattened into broad plates. Most species are short and small and of little economic importance. Deep-sea lobsters (Polychelidae) are soft, weak animals with claws; some are blind. None is commercially important....
slipper shell (gastropod)
(genus Crepidula), any marine snail belonging to the family Calyptraeidae (subclass Prosobranchia, class Gastropoda), in which the humped or flattened shell has a decklike half partition inside. Slipper shells occur worldwide in shallow waters. Adults are fixed to rocks or live within the empty shells of other mollusks. The common Atla...
slipperwort (plant)
any of some 240 to 270 species of flowering plants native from Mexico to South America and named for their flowers’ pouchlike shape. They belong to the genus Calceolaria and the family Calceolariaceae. Many large-flowe...
slippery elm (plant)
Large-leaved elm (Ulmus rubra or U. fulva) of eastern North America that has hard wood and fragrant inner bark. A gluelike substance in the inner bark has long been steeped in water as a remedy for thr...
Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania (school, Slippery Rock, Pennsylvania, United States)
public, coeducational institution of higher learning in Slippery Rock, Pennsylvania, U.S. It is part of Pennsylvania’s State System of Higher Education. It comprises colleges of Arts and Sciences, Education, Health and Human Services, and Information Science and Business Administration. In addition to undergraduate study, the university offers mas...
slipware (pottery)
pottery that has been treated, in one way or another, with semiliquid clay, or slip, sometimes called barbotine. Originally, defects of body colour suggested the use of slip, either white or coloured, as a wash over the vessel before firing. The decorative uses of slip later evolved include sgraffito and carving, painting, trailing, marbling, and inlay....
Slipy, Yosyf (Ukrainian metropolitan)
...drive, reminiscent of the 1930s in eastern Ukraine. Also accused of abetting the partisans, and Ukrainian nationalism in general, was the Greek Catholic church. In April 1945 Metropolitan Yosyf Slipy and the entire hierarchy in Galicia were arrested and later sentenced to long imprisonment (only Slipy survived, to be released in 1963 and sent into exile in Rome). After arrests and......
slit (weaving)
Where the weft margin of a colour area is straight and parallel to the warps, it forms a kind of slit, or relais, which may be treated in any of five different ways. First, it may simply be left open, as in Chinese silk tapestries, which are called kesi (cut silk) for that reason. Second, it may be left open on the loom but sewed up afterward, as in European tapestries from the......
slit drum (musical instrument)
percussion instrument formed by hollowing a tree trunk through a lengthwise slit and sounded by the players’ stamping feet or by beating with sticks; the edges of the slit are usually of different thicknesses, so as to produce different pitches. Unlike membrane drums, which are classified as membranophones, ...
slit gong (musical instrument)
percussion instrument formed by hollowing a tree trunk through a lengthwise slit and sounded by the players’ stamping feet or by beating with sticks; the edges of the slit are usually of different thicknesses, so as to produce different pitches. Unlike membrane drums, which are classified as membranophones, ...
slit moss (plant group)
any of a number of plants in the granite moss group....
slit shell (gastropod family)
...sex cells discharged by way of the right nephridium (kidney); about 3,000 species.Superfamily Zeugobranchia (Pleurotomariacea)Slit shells (Pleurotomariidae) in deep ocean waters; abalones (Haliotidae) in shallow waters along rocky shores of western North America, Japan, Australia, and South Africa; keyhole limpets......
slit-faced bat (mammal)
any of 16 species of tropical bats, all belonging to the genus Nycteris, which constitutes the family Nycteridae, found in Africa and in the Malaysian and Indonesian regions....
Sliven (Bulgaria)
town, east-central Bulgaria. It lies in the southern foothills of the eastern Balkan Mountains at the confluence of the Novoselska and Asenovska rivers. It dates as a town from 1153, but there are significant Roman remains in the area. Destroyed by the Turks, it was rebuilt during their occupation (15th...
sliver (fibre)
in yarn production, loose, soft, untwisted ropelike strand of textile fibre having a roughly uniform thickness. It is produced by the carding process, which separates raw fibres to prepare them for spinning....
slivering (industrial process)
The fibres are combed or carded, then slivered and spun into yarn by the processes used in the textile industry. Strands, also known as readies, are formed by twisting yarns, or small cords, together. The stranding machines, called formers or bunchers, vary in size and form depending on ability to accommodate continuous strand lengths as well as on production rates and flyer speeds....
Slivka, David (sculptor)
Other sculptors such as Peter Agostini, George Spaventa, Peter Grippe, David Slivka, and Lipchitz, who were interested in bringing spontaneity, accident, and automatism into play, returned to the more labile media of wax and clay, with occasional cire-perdue casting, which permit a very direct projection of the artist’s feelings. By the nature of the processes such work is usually on a smal...
slivovitz (distilled liquor)
...and fraise, distilled from strawberries. Other fruit brandies, often characterized by a bitter-almond flavour contributed by the release of oil from the fruit pits during mashing, include slivovitz, a golden-brown plum brandy produced in various Balkan countries; barack palinka, from Hungary, the best known of apricot brandies; Kirschwasser, or kirsch, produced mainly in......
šljivovica (distilled liquor)
...and fraise, distilled from strawberries. Other fruit brandies, often characterized by a bitter-almond flavour contributed by the release of oil from the fruit pits during mashing, include slivovitz, a golden-brown plum brandy produced in various Balkan countries; barack palinka, from Hungary, the best known of apricot brandies; Kirschwasser, or kirsch, produced mainly in......
Sloan, Alfred P., Jr. (American industrialist)
American corporate executive and philanthropist who headed General Motors (GM) as president and chairman for more than a quarter of a century....
Sloan, Alfred Pritchard, Jr. (American industrialist)
American corporate executive and philanthropist who headed General Motors (GM) as president and chairman for more than a quarter of a century....
Sloan, David H. (American physicist)
...to accelerate ions of sodium and potassium to energies twice as high as those imparted by one application of the peak voltage. In 1931 in the United States, Ernest O. Lawrence and his assistant David H. Sloan, at the University of California, Berkeley, employed high-frequency fields to accelerate mercury ions to more than 1.2 MeV. This work augmented Wideröe’s achievement in......
Sloan, Gerald Eugene (American basketball player and coach)
American professional basketball player and coach who was one of the best defensive guards and hard-nosed rebounders in the history of the National Basketball Association (NBA) as a Chicago Bull and who became the first coach to win 1,000 games with a single team, the Utah Jazz....
Sloan, James Forman (American jockey)
American jockey, who popularized the “monkey crouch” riding style, which at first was derided but later was adopted by most jockeys. He was a colourful, self-assertive personage, but he squandered his considerable earnings and died in poverty....
Sloan, Jerry (American basketball player and coach)
American professional basketball player and coach who was one of the best defensive guards and hard-nosed rebounders in the history of the National Basketball Association (NBA) as a Chicago Bull and who became the first coach to win 1,000 games with a single team, the Utah Jazz....
Sloan, John French (American artist)
American painter, etcher and lithographer, cartoonist, and illustrator, known for the vitality of his depictions of everyday life in New York City in the early 20th century....
Sloan, Tod (American jockey)
American jockey, who popularized the “monkey crouch” riding style, which at first was derided but later was adopted by most jockeys. He was a colourful, self-assertive personage, but he squandered his considerable earnings and died in poverty....
Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research (institution, New York City, New York, United States)
Kettering’s interest in science was manifested in the establishment of the Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research at the Memorial Cancer Center, New York City, and the C.F. Kettering Foundation for the Study of Chlorophyll and Photosynthesis....
Sloane, Everett (American actor)
Orson Welles (Charles Foster Kane)Joseph Cotten (Jedediah Leland)Dorothy Comingore (Susan Alexander Kane)Agnes Moorehead (Mary Kane)Ruth Warrick (Emily Kane)Ray Collins (James W. Gettys)Everett Sloane (Mr. Bernstein)...
Sloane ranger (fashion style)
...influences included Gothic novels (“goth”) and science fiction and computers (“geek”). There were also styles typified by wealthy, conservative young adults—“Sloanie” or “Sloane ranger” attire in England (named for the fashionable Sloane Square district of London and initially epitomized by Lady Diana Spencer, the future Diana, prin...
Sloane, Sir Hans, Baronet (British physician)
British physician and naturalist whose collection of books, manuscripts, and curiosities formed the basis for the British Museum in London....
Sloanie (fashion style)
...influences included Gothic novels (“goth”) and science fiction and computers (“geek”). There were also styles typified by wealthy, conservative young adults—“Sloanie” or “Sloane ranger” attire in England (named for the fashionable Sloane Square district of London and initially epitomized by Lady Diana Spencer, the future Diana, prin...
Slob-dpon (Buddhist mystic)
legendary Indian Buddhist mystic who introduced Tantric Buddhism to Tibet and who is credited with establishing the first Buddhist monastery there....
sloboda (Ukrainian settlement)
...an area of colonization by Ukrainian peasants and Cossacks fleeing Polish rule and, later, the ravages of the Ruin period. The newcomers established free, nonserf settlements called slobodas that gave the area the name of Sloboda Ukraine. Kharkiv developed into the region’s main centre. Like the Hetmanate, Sloboda Ukraine enjoyed extensive internal autonomy, though...
Sloboda Ukraine (historical region, Ukraine)
...and Cossacks fleeing Polish rule and, later, the ravages of the Ruin period. The newcomers established free, nonserf settlements called slobodas that gave the area the name of Sloboda Ukraine. Kharkiv developed into the region’s main centre. Like the Hetmanate, Sloboda Ukraine enjoyed extensive internal autonomy, though under officials appointed by the Russian impe...
Slobodkin, Lawrence B. (American ecologist)
June 22, 1928Bronx, N.Y.Sept. 11, 2009Old Field, N.Y.American ecologist who was among the first to combine mathematical modeling with observation in the study of terrestrial ecosystems and made important discoveries in the areas of popu...
Slobozia (Romania)
town, capital of Ialomiţa judeţ (county), southeastern Romania. It lies along the Ialomiţa River in the middle of the Bărăgan Plain. The town was built on what remained of the Roman settlement of Netindava. It is a collecting and marketing centre for a rich agricultural region in which cereals and cattle predominate. Amara is a bathing a...
Slocum Hollow (Pennsylvania, United States)
city, seat (1878) of Lackawanna county, northeastern Pennsylvania, U.S., in the Lackawanna River valley, on the western fringes of the Pocono Mountains; it is the centre of an urbanized industrial complex that includes Carbondale and Wilkes-Barre....
Slocum, John (American religious leader)
Christianized prophet cult among Northwest American Indians; it is not connected with the Shaker communities developed from the teachings of Ann Lee. In 1881 near Olympia, Wash., John Slocum, a Squaxon logger and a baptized Roman Catholic, reported that he had visited heaven while in a coma and was commissioned to preach a new way of life. The following year his wife, Mary, experienced a......
Slocum, Joshua (Canadian seaman)
Canadian seaman and adventurer who was the first man in recorded history to sail around the world singlehandedly....
Slocum, Margaret Olivia (American philanthropist)
American philanthropist whose exceptional generosity in her lifetime, especially to numerous educational and social causes, is continued by the Russell Sage Foundation, which she established....
sloe (Prunus spinosa)
(Prunus spinosa), spiny shrub, of the rose family (Rosaceae), native to Europe but cultivated in other regions. The name is also applied to Crataegus calpodendron (or C. tomentosa), commonly call...
sloe gin (alcoholic beverage)
...colour, resulting from the addition of caramel colouring. Old Tom is a slightly sweetened gin, and various fruit-flavoured gins are made by adding the appropriate flavourings to finished gin. Sloe gin is not a true gin but a sweet liqueur, flavoured with sloe berries, the small, sour fruit of the blackthorn....
slogan (advertising)
...attention to it in the media. One of the ways in which opinion leaders rally opinion and smooth out differences among those who are in basic agreement on a subject is by inventing symbols or coining slogans: in the words of U.S. Pres. Woodrow Wilson, the Allies in World War I were fighting “a war to end all wars,” while aiming “to make the world safe for democracy”;....
Sloika (physics)
...bomb. The first design, proposed by Sakharov in 1948, consisted of alternating layers of deuterium and uranium-238 between a fissile core and a surrounding chemical high explosive. Known as Sloika (“Layer Cake”), the design was refined by Ginzburg in 1949 through the substitution of lithium-6 deuteride for the liquid deuterium. When bombarded with neutrons, lithium-6 breeds......
sloka (Sanskrit poetics)
chief verse form of the Sanskrit epics. A fluid metre that lends itself well to improvisation, the sloka consists of two verse lines (a distich) of 16 syllables each or four half lines (hemistichs) of 8 syllables each....
śloka (Sanskrit poetics)
chief verse form of the Sanskrit epics. A fluid metre that lends itself well to improvisation, the sloka consists of two verse lines (a distich) of 16 syllables each or four half lines (hemistichs) of 8 syllables each....
Slonim (Belarus)
city, western Belarus. The city arose in the latter part of the 10th century as a fortified point and later developed into a market centre. After becoming a railway junction, it expanded its industrial base, and it now has varied food, consumer, and engineering industries, as well as a medical school. Pop. (2006 est.) 51,100....
Słonimski, Antoni (Polish writer and translator)
Polish poet, translator, and newspaper columnist known for his devotion to pacifism and social justice....
Slonimsky, Nicolas (American musicologist, conductor, and composer)
Russian-born U.S. musicologist, conductor, and composer. He left the Soviet Union after studies at the St. Petersburg Conservatory and settled in the U.S. in 1923. In the 1930s he conducted premieres of works by Charles Ives, Edgard Varèse, and others. In Music Since 1900...
sloop (ship)
single-masted sailing vessel with fore-and-aft rigging, including mainsail, jib, and sometimes one or more headsails. A sloop of war was a small sloop-rigged warship, mounting about 20 guns. In modern usage, the sloop is practically synonymous with the cutter. ...
sloop of war (warship)
small, fast naval vessel ranking in size below a frigate. In the 18th and 19th centuries, corvettes were three-masted ships with square rigging similar to that of frigates and ships of the line, but they carried only about 20 guns on the top deck. Frequently serving as dispatchers among ships of a battle fleet, corvettes also escorted merchantmen and showed a nation’s flag in distant parts...
slope (mining)
The walls of a pit have a certain slope determined by the strength of the rock mass and other factors. The stability of these walls, and even of individual benches and groups of benches, is very important—particularly as the pit gets deeper. Increasing the pit slope angle by only a few degrees can decrease stripping costs tremendously or increase revenues through increased ore recovery,......
slope (geology)
...is located, and there may be a series of beach ridges or berms created by the waves of a previous major storm. This terrace surface is inclined seaward. The next element is a steeper, frontal beach slope or face, and beneath it a low-tide terrace may be developed. If the tides are high enough (more than 2 m [6.6 feet]), the frontal slope may be more than 1 km (0.6 mile) in width in regions with...
slope (mathematics)
Numerical measure of a line’s inclination relative to the horizontal. In analytic geometry, the slope of any line, ray, or line segment is the ratio of the vertical to the horizontal distance between any two points on it (“slope equals rise over run”). In differential calculus, the slope of a line tangent to the graph of a function is give...
slope angle (slope)
The geographic restriction is that, unlike roads, railways, or pipelines, which are adaptable to irregular natural features, waterways are confined to moderate gradients; and where these change direction, the summit pounds (ponds) require an adequate supply of water, while valley pounds need facilities for disposal of surplus....
slope soaring (sports)
...such as those above a sunlit field of ripened grain, to lift the glider. Thermals can rise very rapidly, which allows the sailplane, if deftly piloted, to attain substantial increases in altitude. Slope soaring occurs when moving air is forced up by a ridge. By following the ridge, the sailplane can glide for great distances. In wave soaring, the glider flies along vertical waves of wind that.....
slope wash (geology)
detachment of soil particles by raindrop impact and their removal downslope by water flowing overland as a sheet instead of in definite channels or rills. A more or less uniform layer of fine particles is removed from the entire surface of an area, sometimes resulting in an extensive loss of rich topsoil. Sheet erosion commonly occurs on recently plowed fields or on other sites having poorly cons...
Slopes of Parnassus, The (work by Vecchi)
Italian composer best known for his madrigal-comedy L’Amfiparnaso and other entertainment music....
SLORC (Myanmar government)
...Ban Ki-Moon visited Myanmar but was refused permission to meet with Suu Kyi or other imprisoned dissidents. Months later U.S. Sen. Jim Webb visited the country and met with Than Shwe and other State Peace and Development Council (SPDC) leaders as well as with Suu Kyi; he also secured the release of Yettaw, who had been sentenced to seven years’ hard labour....
slot (sports)
...to go after it, and the other to try to wrest the puck away. The third forward, meanwhile, takes up a position about 20 feet in front of the goal, in the centre of the ice, in a spot known as the "slot." In the slot he is in position to shoot if he gets the puck. The defensemen on the attacking team take up positions on the blue line to prevent the defending team from getting a breakaway.......
slot machine (gambling device)
gambling device operated by dropping one or more coins or tokens into a slot and pulling a handle or pushing a button to activate one to three or more reels marked into horizontal segments by varying symbols. The machine pays off by dropping into a cup or trough from two to all the coins in the machine, depending on how and how many of the symbols line up when the rotating reels come to rest. Symb...
sloth (mammal)
tree-dwelling mammal noted for its slowness of movement. All five living species are limited to the lowland tropical forests of South and Central America, where they can be found high in the forest canopy sunning, resting, or feeding on leaves. Although two-toed sloths (...
sloth bear (mammal)
forest-dwelling member of the family Ursidae that inhabits tropical or subtropical regions of India and Sri Lanka. Named for its slow-moving habits, the sloth bear has poor senses of sight and hearing but has a good sense of smell. Various adaptations equip this nocturnal animal for raiding insect colonies. With long, curved...
Slothrop, Tyrone (fictional character)
fictional character, a naive American lieutenant working for Allied Intelligence in London in Gravity’s Rainbow (1973) by Thomas Pynchon....
Slotsholmen (island, Denmark)
Located on the island of Slotsholmen (“Castle Islet”) is Christiansborg Palace, built on the site of the old castle founded by Bishop Absalon in 1167. Since 1928 the palace has been occupied by Parliament, the Supreme Court, and the Foreign Office. Nearby buildings house other government offices. Slotsholmen also contains the Bertel Thorvaldsen Museum, the Royal Arsenal Museum, the.....
Slott, Mollie (American editor)
...in the comics industry. Although she envisioned her strip heroine as a female bandit, Messick changed the occupation to that of newspaper reporter on the advice of Patterson’s editorial assistant, Mollie Slott, who also helped name the character: Brenda, after Brenda Frazier, a well-known debutante of the time, and Starr, reflecting Brenda’s status as a star reporter....
slotted armature (machine part)
...generator capable of producing a continuous current. It was soon found that the magnetic field is more effective if the coil windings are embedded in slots in the rotating iron armature. The slotted armature, still in use today, was invented in 1880 by the Swedish engineer Jonas Wenström. Faraday’s 1831 discovery of the principle of the AC transformer was not put to practical use....
slotted nut (tool)
In addition to the standard square and hexagonal nuts, there are many special types. Several are illustrated in the Figure, including the slotted or castellated nut; when this nut is tightened on the bolt, the slots are aligned with a hole in the bolt and locked in place by a cotter pin or wire lacing to prevent loosening or unscrewing. Locking can also be accomplished by tightening a thin nut......
Slouching Towards Bethlehem (work by Didion)
...effective in capturing the drama of political conventions and large protest demonstrations. The novelist Joan Didion published two collections of incisive social and literary commentary, Slouching Towards Bethlehem (1968) and The White Album (1979). The title essay of the first collection was an honest investigation of the forces that gave colour and significance......
Slough (town and unitary authority, Berkshire, England, United Kingdom)
town and unitary authority, geographic county of Berkshire, England. Most of the unitary authority lies within the historic county of Buckinghamshire, but it also includes Poyle, part of the historic county of Middlesex. It lies on t...
Slovak (people)
town and unitary authority, geographic county of Berkshire, England. Most of the unitary authority lies within the historic county of Buckinghamshire, but it also includes Poyle, part of the historic county of Middlesex. It lies on t...
Slovak Democratic and Christian Union (pol. party, Slovakia)
...ruling coalition owing to a dispute regarding the country’s Vatican treaty. The surging economy was not enough to bring an election victory for Prime Minister Mikulas Dzurinda’s party, the Slovak Democratic and Christian Union (SDKU). Still, the SDKU finished second, with a stronger-than-expected 18.3% of the vote and 31 seats in the 150-member parliament. The populist......
Slovak, Hillel (Israeli-American musician)
...(original name Michael Balzary; b. October 16, 1962Melbourne, Australia), Hillel Slovak (b. April 13, 1962Haifa, Israel—d. June 25, 1988Los Angeles,...
Slovak language
West Slavic language closely related to Czech, Polish, and the Sorbian languages of eastern Germany. It is the official language of Slovakia. Slovak is written in the Roman (Latin) alphabet. Although there are traces of the Slovak language in Latin documents of the 11t...
Slovak literature
the body of literature produced in the Slovak language. Until the 18th century there was no systematic attempt to establish a literary language on the basis of the Slovak dialects, which, though closely related to Czech, had developed a separate identity from the early Middle Ages. The decline of literary Czech in the early...
Slovak National Council (Czech legislature)
...group called the Prague National Committee proclaimed a republic on October 28, and two days later at Turčiansky Svätý Martin (now Martin, Slvk.) a Slovak counterpart, the Slovak National Council, acceded to the Prague proclamation....
Slovak National Museum (museum, Bratislava, Slovakia)
Most major museums, including the Slovak National Museum (founded 1893) and the Slovak National Gallery (founded 1948) are located in Bratislava. The Museum of Jewish Culture, a part of the Slovak National Museum, opened in 1991. The Museum of Carpathian German Culture and the Museum of Hungarian Culture in Slovakia are both in Bratislava, while other regional ethnographic museums are located......
Slovak National Party (political party, Slovakia)
...Union (SDKU), SMK, and the Christian Democratic Movement (KDH)—each gained two seats. Meanwhile, Smer-SD’s junior coalition partners—the Movement for a Democratic Slovakia (HZDS) and the Slovak National Party (SNS)—obtained one seat each. The latter’s support appeared to be damaged by corruption scandals that led to the replacement of several SNS ministers in ...
Slovak National Theatre (theatre company, Bratislava, Slovakia)
The first professional theatre featuring performances in the Slovak language was the Slovak National Theatre in Bratislava, established in 1920. In addition to plays, the theatre also mounts ballets and operas. A new theatre building was built in 2007, but productions also continued to be mounted at the original Neo-Renaissance theatre built in 1886. The state subsidizes a number of theatre......
Slovak Ore Mountains (mountains, Slovakia)
segment of the Carpathian Mountains, in south-central Slovakia. The mountains extend (west-east) for about 90 miles (145 km) between Zvolen and Košice and rise to 4,846 feet (1,477 m) in Stolica. They are noted for their mineral resources, especially high-grade iron ore, which is important to the Slovak economy. The mo...
Slovak People’s Party (Slovak political party)
...the Agrarians and the Christian Socialists, joined the government majority, thus breaking a deadlock. Disagreement with the trend toward centralism was the main source of dissatisfaction among the Slovak Populists, a clerical party headed by Andrej Hlinka. Calls for Slovak autonomy were counterbalanced by other parties seeking closer contacts with the corresponding Czech groups; the most......
Slovak Populists (Slovak political party)
...the Agrarians and the Christian Socialists, joined the government majority, thus breaking a deadlock. Disagreement with the trend toward centralism was the main source of dissatisfaction among the Slovak Populists, a clerical party headed by Andrej Hlinka. Calls for Slovak autonomy were counterbalanced by other parties seeking closer contacts with the corresponding Czech groups; the most......
Slovak Republic (nation, Europe)
landlocked country of central Europe. It is roughly coextensive with the historic region of Slovakia, the easternmost of the two territories that from 1918 to 1992 constituted Czechoslovakia....
Slovak Socialist Republic (nation, Europe)
landlocked country of central Europe. It is roughly coextensive with the historic region of Slovakia, the easternmost of the two territories that from 1918 to 1992 constituted Czechoslovakia....
Slovakia (historical region, Europe)
Slovakia was inhabited in the first centuries ce by Illyrian, Celtic, and then Germanic tribes. The Slovaks—Slavs closely akin to, but possibly distinct from, the Czechs—probably entered it from Silesia in the 6th or 7th century. For a time they were subject to the Avars, but in the 9th century the area between the Morava River and the central highlands formed part of G...
Slovakia (nation, Europe)
landlocked country of central Europe. It is roughly coextensive with the historic region of Slovakia, the easternmost of the two territories that from 1918 to 1992 constituted Czechoslovakia....
Slovakia, flag of
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Slovakia, history of
For earlier history of the area, including Czechoslovakia, see Czechoslovak region, history of....
Slovakia: Year In Review 1993
Slovakia is a landlocked state in central Europe. Area: 49,035 sq km (18,933 sq mi). Pop. (1993 est.): 5,329,000. Cap.: Bratislava. Monetary unit: Slovak koruna, with (Oct. 4, 1993) a free rate of 31.79 koruny to U.S. $1 (48.16 koruny = £ 1 sterling). President from March 2, 1993, Michal Kovac; prime minister, Vladimir Meciar....
Slovakia: Year In Review 1994
Slovakia is a landlocked state in central Europe. Area: 49,035 sq km (18,933 sq mi). Pop. (1994 est.): 5,352,000. Cap.: Bratislava. Monetary unit: Slovak koruna, with (Oct. 7, 1994) a free rate of 31.19 koruny to U.S. $1 (49.61 koruny = £ 1 sterling). President in 1994, Michal Kovac; prime ministers, Vladimir Meciar until March 11, Jozef Moravcik from March 16, and, from December 13, Meciar...
Slovakia: Year In Review 1995
Slovakia is a landlocked state in central Europe. Area: 49,036 sq km (18,933 sq mi). Pop. (1995 est.): 5,355,000. Cap.: Bratislava. Monetary unit: Slovak koruna, with (Oct. 6, 1995) a free rate of 29.60 koruny to U.S. $1 (46.80 koruny = £ 1 sterling). President in 1995, Michal Kovac; prime minister, Vladimir Meciar....
Slovakia: Year In Review 1996
Slovakia is a landlocked state in central Europe. Area: 49,036 sq km (18,933 sq mi). Pop. (1996 est.): 5,372,000. Cap.: Bratislava. Monetary unit: Slovak koruna, with (Oct. 11, 1996) a free rate of 31.19 koruny to U.S. $1 (49.13 koruny = £ 1 sterling). President in 1996, Michal Kovac; prime minister, Vladimir Meciar....
Slovakia: Year In Review 1997
Area: 49,036 sq km (18,933 sq mi)...
Slovakia: Year In Review 1998
Area: 49,036 sq km (18,933 sq mi)...
Slovakia: Year In Review 1999
In Slovakia 1999 brought progress in politics, economic reform, and foreign relations. Prime Minister Mikulas Dzurinda’s Cabinet, which had taken office in October 1998, had to cope with economic problems and conflicts within the broad-based coalition government, as well as the challenge of bringing Slovakia back on t...
Slovakia: Year In Review 2000
Slovakia continued to struggle politically and economically in the year 2000, but the country remained on its reform path. While membership negotiations with the European Union (EU) moved along relatively quickly, Slovakia’s accession to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development in the fall was consid...
Slovakia: Year In Review 2001
Although Slovakia continued to struggle with political uncertainty and economic difficulties in 2001, the country also made considerable progress in reforms. The ruling parties showed remarkable unity when necessary, which was demonstrated most clearly by the adoption in February of 85 constitutional amendments, the most important of which allowed for ...
Slovakia: Year In Review 2002
Parliamentary elections held on September 20–21 were the major event of 2002 in Slovakia. The outcome was considered crucial for the future direction of the country, particularly in light of the upcoming decisions on the enlargement of NATO and the European Union (EU). Many feared that Slovaks would turn away from the...