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Slovak Open
Slovak Open

The Peugeot Slovak Open is a professional tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts. It is currently part of the Tretorn SERIE+ of Association of Tennis Professionals Challenger Tour and ITF Women's Circuit.

Verbunkos

Verbunkos , other spellings being Verbounko, Verbunko, Verbunkas, Werbunkos, Werbunkosch, Verbunkoche; sometimes known simply as the hongroise or ungarischer Tanz (Bellman 2001) is an 18th-century Hungarian dance and music genre. The verbunkos is typically in a pair of sections, slow (lassú), with a characteristic dotted rhythm, and fast (friss), with virtuosic running-note passages.

Moravian Slovakia
Moravian Slovakia

Moravian Slovakia or Slovácko is a cultural region in the southeastern part of the Czech Republic, Moravia on the border with Slovakia (Czech: Slovensko) and Austria, known for its characteristic folklore, music, wine, costumes and traditions. The area forms part of both the Zlín and South Moravian administrative regions.

Opava
Opava

Opava ; German: Troppau, Lower Silesian: Tropp, Polish: Opawa, Latin: Oppavia) is a city in the eastern Czech Republic on the river Opava, located to the north-west of Ostrava. Opava is one of the historical centres of Silesia.

Opava (river)
Opava (river)

The Opava is a river in the north-eastern Czech Republic, a left tributary of the Oder river. It originates at the confluence of Bílá (White), Střední (Middle) and Černá (Black) Opava in Vrbno pod Pradědem and runs over 110 km (69 mi) to the Oder at Ostrava, with some 25 km (16 mi) forming the border with Poland.

Opava (disambiguation)

Opava is a city in the Moravian-Silesian Region, Czech Republic.

Opava, Veľký Krtíš District
Opava, Veľký Krtíš District

Opava is a village and municipality in the Veľký Krtíš District of the Banská Bystrica Region of southern Slovakia.

Opava District
Opava District

Opava District is a district (okres) within Moravian-Silesian Region of the Czech Republic. Its capital is the city of Opava.

Synagogue in Opava
Synagogue in Opava

The Opava Synagogue, or Templ, was a neo-Romanesque synagogue built in the Moorish style and designed by the prominent architect Jakob Gartner. It stood in the Silesian town of Opava between 1895 and 1938, when it was burned and levelled to the ground by the local fanaticized Sudeten Germans.

Orava Beskids
Orava Beskids

The Orava Beskids is a range of mountains straddling the northern-Slovakia-southern-Poland border, considered part of the Central Beskids, within the Outer Western Carpathians. The highest mountain of the range is Babia Góra (1,725 metres), the center of the Babia Góra National Park, one of the first biosphere reserves established worldwide.

Slovak koruna
Slovak koruna

The Slovak koruna or Slovak crown was the currency of Slovakia between 8 February 1993 and 31 December 2008, and could be used for cash payment until 16 January 2009. The ISO 4217 code was SKK and the local abbreviation was Sk.

Slovak orthography

The first Slovak orthography was proposed by Anton Bernolák in his Dissertatio philologico-critica de litteris Slavorum, used in the six-volume Slovak-Czech-Latin-German-Hungarian Dictionary (1825–1927) and used primarily by Slovak Catholics. The standard orthography of the Slovak language is immediately based on the standard developed by Ľudovít Štúr in 1844 and reformed by Martin Hattala in 1851 with the agreement of Štúr.

Slovak Ore Mountains
Slovak Ore Mountains

The Slovak Ore Mountains are an extensive mountainous region of Slovakia's Spiš and Gemer region, and in small part in northern Hungary, within the Carpathians. It is the largest mountain range in Slovakia.