Hunt, a Slovak nobleman from the 10th century

Spišský Castle

• Name: Slovenská republika (Slovak Republic)
• Short name: Slovensko (Slovakia)
• ISO 2-letter code: SK, 3-letter code: SVK
• Area: 49 036 sq. km (18 921 sq. miles)
• Population: 5 356 207 (Dec. 31, 1994)
• Population Density: 109 per sq. km
• Nationalities: Slovak 85.7%, Czech 1.0%, Hungarian 10.6%, Romany 1.4%, Ruthenian 0.3%, Ukrainian, 0.3%, German 0.1%, Polish 0.1%
• Religion: mainly Roman Catholics (around 60 %), Protestants of the Augsburg confession, Greek Catholics (Uniate church) and Orthodox Christians (in the eastern part of Slovakia)
• Official Language: Slovak
• Political system: parliamentary democracy

The Slovak Republic came into existence on January 1, 1993 as one of the successor states of the Czech and Slovak Federal Republic. The Slovak Republic is a parliamentary democracy with autonomous legislature (parliament), executive (president and government) and judicial branches (incl. Constitutional court). The Constitution guarantees every citizen equality before the law irrespective of gender, religion, race, national origin, social status or political conviction. State bodies can act only on the basis of the Constitution, within its limits, and to the extent and in the manner defined by law. International treaties on human rights and other basic agreements that have been ratified by the Slovak Republic, and promulgated in a manner determined by law, take precedence over the Slovak Republic's own laws, provided that they secure greater constitutional rights and liberties.

"We, the Slovak nation, mindful of the political and cultural heritage of our forebears, and of the centuries of experience from the struggle for national existence and our own statehood, in the sense of the spiritual heritage of Cyril and Methodius and the historical legacy of the Great Moravian Empire, proceeding from the natural right of nations to self-determination, together with members of national minorities and ethnic groups living on the territory of the Slovak Republic, in the interest of lasting peaceful co-operation with other democratic states, seeking the application of the democratic form of government and the guarantees of a free life and the development of spiritual culture and economic prosperity, that is, we, citizens of the Slovak Republic, adopt through our representatives the following Constitution:..."

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