Significant historical personalities of Slovakia

Primary school of Viliam Záborský

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Slovakia

Made for Comenius program:

Wandering through the History and Culture of Europe.

In our presentation we will introduce the most famous and the most significant personalities of our country.

You can also see paintings of our classmates in this presentation.

In this paintings we´d like to show you our view of the history of Slovakia and also our relationship to it and to our country.

PRIBINA ( 800 - 861)

Pribina was a Slavic prince .

As the prince he ruled the country especially from his seat in Nitra – Nitrava.

He also built the first Christian church on our territory - on the territory to the North of the river Danube.

Cyril and Metod – 9th century

• Cyril and Method were also called Thessalonian brothers or apostoles of the Slavs during formation of Great Moravia.To our territory they came from Byzantium, which was the centre of culture before.

• They became Christian missionaries between Slavic nations of Great Moravia. They spread Christianity and culture and contributed significantly to development of Great Moravia.

• Their work influenced cultural development of all the Slavs. They received the title “apostoles of the Slavs“. They created the first Slavic writing - Hlaholika.

MÁRIA TERÉZIA 1740 – 1780

• Mária Terézia was Hungarian and Czech Queen of

the Habsburgs.

• She ruled the territory of Slovakia in 18th century

when Slovakia was the part of Austria – Hungary.

• During her reign

the monarchy developed.

Svätopluk

• Svätopluk is the most known and the most significant Slovak monarch.

• In 9th century he was the Prince of Nitra’s principality and from 871 to 894 also the most known monarch of Great Moravia.

Matúš Čák Trenčiansky ( 1252 – 1321 )

• Named as the Master of Váh and the Tatras, significant nobleman.

• He lived in Trenčín castle, he owned another 30 castles.

Matej Korvín

• He was significant monarch in 15th century.

• Matej Korvín came from the Huňady´s family and his father Ján Huňady was the richest magnate in Hungary.

• Through his reign he contributed to economic and cultural rise of our country.

Children´s paintings

Pribina

Nitra castle

Trenčín castle

Mária Terézia

Master Pavol from Levoča 15 –16th century.

• In creative region of Levoča for almost four decades, Master Pavol from Levoča lived and formed his art. He is considered for the biggest medieval artist of Slovakia till this time.

• He was a medieval carver and sculptor of 15th and 16th century, active mostly in the town of Levoča, Slovakia.

• He was famous as the creator of the altar in St. Jacob’s Church in the town of Levoča, where he lived with his family most of his life.

Juraj Jánošík (1688 -1713)

• Slovak Robin Hood – own name Juraj Jánošík is the biggest Slovak legend.

• He was a famous Slovak outlaw. Jánošík has been the main character of many Slovak legends, novels, poems and films.• He was born in Terchová in Orava.

• According to the legend, he robbed nobles and gave the loot to the poor.

• He was executed in Liptovský Mikuláš.

• He was executed and it is also possible that Jánošík was hanged. A hook was pierced through his left side and he was left dangling on the gallows to die.

Ľudovír Štúr ( 1815 - 1856)

• He was the most significant personality of Slovakia during Austria-Hungarian monarchy.

• Ľudovít Štúr was the most significant representative of Slovak national life and the leading figure of Slovak national revival in 19th century.

• He created

Slovak literary language.

Pavol Dobšinský ( 1828 – 1885 )• He came from Gemer situated in the

south - east of Slovakia.

• He was a Slovak collector of folklore and writer belonging to the period of Romanticism and to the Štúr generation.

• He is perhaps best known for creating the largest and for the most complete collection of Slovak folktales. (Simple National Slovak Tales), self-published in a series of eight books from 1880 to 1883.

• For his collections he has often been referred to as "Slovakian Hans Christian Andersen“.

• The focus of most of his work was on folklore.

Habakuky in Donovaly in Slovakia Habakuky is Dobšinský´s world of fairy tales .

It is a small village created by the stories of

Dobšinský .

You can see here 15 objects such as castles, lakes,

small cottages, monsters.

We would like to visit this village with you through

your stay in Slovakia.

Habakuky – Dobšinský Fairy tales world

Pavol Országh-Hviezdoslav (1849 – 1921)

• Pavol Országh-Hviezdoslav was the most significant Slovak poet, dramatist and translator.

• He is considered to be one of the most significant personalities of Slovak literature and Slovak culture.

Children paintings

• Many legends and tales are connected with

the personalities and castles of Slovakia.

• We prepared another presentation

for you about them.

Thank you for your interest!

Pupils from Comenius Club

Základná škola Viliama Záborského

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