Links

Websites, services, and resources related to Slovakia…

SITES:

• 
  = Allan Stevo’s blog about Slovak life and culture!
• 
  = Peter Korchnak’s blog of culture & transplantation, Slovak-Amerikan-style!
• 
  = CzechMateDiary.com
• ADVENTURES OF TERKA & JEFFKO = Another kindred spirit Bratislava-based blog!
•  = “<DANGER> BLOG: Politics in Slovakia and beyond”
• 
  = Roma Press Agency = multimedia Roma news & culture…
• 
  = romawoman.org = Videos, campaigns, & more…
•  Roma Education Fund (Hungary)
• Google.SK = Googlujeme s ujom googlom. (huh?)
• Translation by Google.com = [SLOVAK>>ENGLISH] or [ENGLISH>>SLOVAK] (among other languages!)
• SLOVAK KEYBOARD by LexiLogos = enables you to type all those tricky Slovak letters!
•  = Czech (& some Slovak) accents marks on TypeIt.org
• ONLINE SLOVNIK!

RADIO:

•  Slovensky Rozhlas = Listen live to all the national Slovak radio stations

NEWS & MEDIA:

•  = English-language Slovak news
•  = a major Slovak newspaper
•  = SME’s english language counterpart

• Televiza Markiza: Spravy
  
  = The news show I watched every evening with Babka
• Bez Servitky = Babka’s favorite cooking show
• Modra z Neba = Two of my cousins were actually on this show once!

STATISTICAL RESOURCES:

• Basic EU Member State statistics from Wikipedia…
• Eurostat
  
  = Endless statistics on the European Union…  FOR EXAMPLE:
  • Population, by country (extra credit: see if you can get the data to display as a rollover pie chart…)
  • GDP per capita (expressed against a european average of “100”)
  • GDP growth rate (as a percentage change on previous year)
  • Export of goods (as a percentage of GDP)
  • Import of goods (as a percentage of GDP)
  • Government debt (as a percentage of GDP)
  • “Mean consumption expenditure by household…”
  • Unemployment rates
  • “People at-risk-of-poverty or social exclusion” (as a % of total population)
  • “Severely materially deprived people” (as a % of total population)
• List of countries by PUBLIC DEBT (wikipedia)
• List of countries by EXTERNAL DEBT (wikipedia)
• Worlwide external debt statistics (Nationmaster.com)

GENERAL SLOVAKIA RESOURCES:

• List of all cities & towns in Slovakia
• Official seals (erby) of Slovak municipalities
• V4 Forum: Mayors for Roma Inclusion = Slovak, Polish, Czech, and Hungarian projects
• Map of Slovakia
• Slovak Calendar (Name Days) — from wikipedia.org
• Names & Holidays in the Slovak Calendar — from slovensko.com
• History of Slovakia(Wikipedia)
  • Slovak Republic (1939-1945)
• History of Bratislava (Wikipedia)
• 
  Museum of the Slovak National Uprising (SNP) in Banska Bystrica
• 
  EastModern.com’s gallery of some interesting Slovak modernist architecture …
• Prešov: Beauty emerging from blood
• Prešov – Orthodox Synagogue
• Prešov: Wine and revolution

VIDEOS TO WATCH:

• “Bratislava — Old and New Bridge (1965)” = footage of the historic river crossings on the Slovak Danube:
• “Of Problems of Bratislava’s Bridge (1968)” = featuring footage of the Old Synagogue & the demolition of the waterfront:
• A quick tour of pre-war Bratislava, featuring the “interesting churches” and the “Jewish ghetto”:
  
• Longer interwar tour of Bratislava: