Bookmarks: Before the Arrival of the Slavs ● The Arrival of the
Slavs ● Slovakia as Part of the Hungarian Kingdom ● Century of
Change ● The Anjou Period ● The Late Middle Ages ● Between Two
Civilisations ● The Road to National Emancipation ● Political
Transformation until 1918 ● The Czechoslovak Republic ● The 2nd
World War ● 1945–1948 and 1948–1989 ● In the Democratic World
With an area of more than 49 thousand km sq., Slovakia extends
between the River Morava to the west and River Tisza to the
east, the middle Danube to the south and Tatra mountains to the
north. Humans have lived on this territory since the late Stone
Age. So-called Neanderthal man has been discovered at the sites
of the oldest settlements from the Middle Palaeolithic period in
Gánovce near Poprad and šaľa on the Váh. Nomadic settlements of
mammoth hunters appeared here in the Upper Palaeolithic period.
The best works of European prehistoric art include the Venus of
Moravany, which was found to be 22,800 years old. During the
Neolithic per