 Before the creation of Czechoslovakia, 220 periodicals were issued in the territory of Slovakia, 38 of them in the Slovak language.During the interwar period, the number of Slovak and Czech periodicals in Slovakia increased to more than 1,050, while the number of periodicals in minority languages (mostly Hungarian) increased almost to 640 (only a small portion of these were published through the entire interwar period).The Czechoslovak state preserved and financially supported two Hungarian professional theatre companies in Slovakia and an additional one in Carpathian Ruthenia.