15 ATLASES
History of Slovakia in maps
Slovakia as it appears in 15 interactive history atlases, from 264 BC to 2015: Quadi lands, Upper Hungary, Slovakia, Czechoslovakia, Austria-Hungary. Each era below lists who ruled the land and when control changed, linked to the dated map that shows it.
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What was Slovakia before it was Slovakia? The sections below follow this land through every era covered by the Maps of History atlases: who ruled it, what it was called, and when control changed. Each line links to the dated map. Modern borders serve as an approximation, as each atlas says on the map itself.
Quadi lands (mod. Slovakia) · Ancient Rome
| 264 BC | Tribal peoples & confederations — the opening position |
ANCIENT ROME: EVERY CHAPTER AND MAP →
Slovakia · Norse and Aztecs
| Other peoples and states — the opening position |
NORSE AND AZTECS: EVERY CHAPTER AND MAP →
Upper Hungary (mod. Slovakia) · Crusades
| Latin Christendom — the opening position |
CRUSADES: EVERY CHAPTER AND MAP →
Upper Hungary (mod. Slovakia) · Mongol Empire
| Other settled powers (Jin China, Christendom, Delhi) — the opening position |
MONGOL EMPIRE: EVERY CHAPTER AND MAP →
Upper Hungary (mod. Slovakia) · Industrial Revolution
| Industrialising — the opening position | |
| Industrialising | |
| Industrialising |
INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION: EVERY CHAPTER AND MAP →
Slovakia · Age of Revolutions
| The conservative monarchies — the opening position |
AGE OF REVOLUTIONS: EVERY CHAPTER AND MAP →
Czechoslovakia (Slovakia; independent from 1993) · Meiji Japan and post-Soviet Russia
Slovakia shared Czechoslovakia’s history through the Prague Spring of 1968 and the Velvet Revolution of 1989. The two halves then chose separation and parted peacefully on 1 January 1993. This “velvet divorce” was a rare peaceful dissolution of a multinational state, contrasting with Yugoslavia and with violence in parts of the former Soviet Union.
| Soviet-bloc states — the opening position | |
| Independent neighbours |
MEIJI JAPAN AND POST-SOVIET RUSSIA: EVERY CHAPTER AND MAP →
Austria-Hungary (mod. Slovakia) · Russian Revolution
| Foreign powers & intervention — the opening position |
RUSSIAN REVOLUTION: EVERY CHAPTER AND MAP →
Slovakia (Hungary) · WWI
Czechoslovakia (Slovakia) · Stalin’s Soviet Union
Czechoslovakia was central Europe’s only democracy to survive the 1930s, until Britain and France let Hitler take the Sudetenland in 1938 and the rest in 1939. Largely liberated by the Red Army, it restored a multi-party system in 1945, with the communists its largest party. They seized full power in February 1948. The 1952 trial of party leader Rudolf Slánský showed that loyalty to Moscow protected no one.
| Nazi Germany & its allies — the opening position | |
| Nazi Germany & its allies | |
| Other states | |
| Satellites & communist allies |
STALIN’S SOVIET UNION: EVERY CHAPTER AND MAP →
Czechoslovakia (Slovakia) · Road to WW2
| Democracies & powers fighting them — the opening position | |
| Aggressor clients & partners |
ROAD TO WW2: EVERY CHAPTER AND MAP →
Slovakia · WW2
| Axis allies & puppets — the opening position | |
| Axis allies & puppets | |
| Soviet Union |
Slovakia · Cold War
| Soviet-aligned states — the opening position | |
| Soviet-aligned states | |
| In upheaval / changing sides | |
| Non-aligned & neutral | |
| Soviet-aligned states | |
| In upheaval / changing sides | |
| Non-aligned & neutral |
COLD WAR: EVERY CHAPTER AND MAP →
Czechoslovakia (Slovakia) · Feminism and the Tunisian Revolution
| Right won in law — the opening position | |
| Partial or unequal; treaty signed only; transition | |
| No reform yet / outside this story | |
| Right won in law |
FEMINISM AND THE TUNISIAN REVOLUTION: EVERY CHAPTER AND MAP →
Czechoslovakia (Slovakia) · Refugee crises
Slovakia’s Carpathian Germans were largely evacuated or expelled in 1944–46. Its large Hungarian minority also faced the loss of citizenship, and some were moved in a population exchange with Hungary in 1946–48. Slovakia remained within restored Czechoslovakia when the communists took power in 1948; like the Czech lands, it turns red on this map that February.
| Neutral or between the blocs — the opening position | |
| Soviet-occupied or communist | |
| Western bloc or democracy |
REFUGEE CRISES: EVERY CHAPTER AND MAP →
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