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National name Slovenská Republika
Area 49,035 sq km/18,940 sq mi
Capital Bratislava
Major towns/cities Kosice, Nitra, Presov, Banská Bystrica, Zilina, Trnava
Physical features Western range of the Carpathian Mountains including Tatra and Beskids in N; Danube plain in S; numerous lakes and mineral springs		   Political system emergent democracy
Administrative divisions four regions
Population 5,353,000 (1995 est)
Language Slovak (official)
Ethnic distribution 87% ethnic Slovak, 11% ethnic Hungarian (Magyar); small Czech, Moravian, Silesian, and Romany communities
Religions Roman Catholic (over 50%), Lutheran, Reformist, Orthodox
In the EU since 2004
 
Chronology

9th century Part of the kingdom of Greater Moravia, in the Czech lands to the W, founded by the Slavic Prince Sviatopluk; Christianity adopted.
906 Came under Magyar (Hungarian) domination and adopted Roman Catholicism.
1526 Came under Austrian Habsburg rule.
1867 With creation of dual Austro-Hungarian monarchy, came under separate Hungarian rule; a policy of forced Magyarization stimulated a revival of Slovak national consciousness.
1918 Austro-Hungarian Empire dismembered; Slovaks joined Czechs to form independent state of Czechoslovakia. Slovak-born Tomas Masaryk remained president until 1935, but political and economic power became concentrated in the Czech lands.
1939 Germany annexed Czechoslovakia; became an Axis puppet state under the Slovak autonomist leader Monsignor Jozef Tiso; Jews persecuted.
1944 Popular revolt against German rule (the `Slovak Uprising´).
1945 Liberated from German rule by Soviet troops; Czechoslovakia re-established.
1948 Communists assumed power in Czechoslovakia.
1950s Heavy industry introduced into previously rural Slovakia; Slovak nationalism and the Catholic Church forcibly suppressed.
1968-69 `Prague Spring´ political reforms introduced by the Slovak-born Communist Party leader Alexander Dubcek; Warsaw Pact forces invaded Czechoslovakia to stamp out the reforms; the Slovak Socialist Republic, with autonomy over local affairs, created under new federal constitution; the Slovak-born Gustáv Husák became Communist Party leader in Czechoslovakia.
1989 Prodemocracy demonstrations in Bratislava; new political parties, including the centre-left People Against Violence (PAV), formed and later legalized; Communist Party stripped of powers; new government formed, with ex-dissident playwright Václav Havel as president.

 
1989 Prodemocracy demonstrations in Bratislava; new political parties, including the centre-left People Against Violence (PAV), formed and later legalized; Communist Party stripped of powers; new government formed, with ex-dissident playwright Václav Havel as president.
1990 Slovak nationalists polled strongly in multiparty elections, with Vladimir Meciar (PAV) becoming prime minister.
1991 Increasing Slovak separatism, as the economy, exposed to market forces, deteriorated. Meciar formed the PAV splinter group, Movement for a Democratic Slovakia (HZDS), pledging greater autonomy for Slovakia. Pro-Meciar rallies in Bratislava followed his dismissal.
1992 Meciar returned to power following electoral victory for HZDS. Slovak parliament's declaration of sovereignty led to resignation of Havel; `velvet divorce´ agreement on separate Czech and Slovak states established a free-trade customs union.
1993 Slovak Republic entered United Nations and Council of Europe as a sovereign state, with Meciar prime minister and Michal Kovac, formerly of the HZDS, president.
1994 Joined NATO's `Partnership for Peace´ programme. Meciar ousted on a no-confidence vote, but later returned after new elections, heading a `red-brown´ coalition government that included ultranationalists and socialists.
1995 Second wave of mass privatization postponed; Slovak made sole official language; Treaty of Friendship and Cooperation signed with Hungary, easing tensions among Hungarian minority community.
 
Dental Education

Admission Exam state school-leaving examination (GCE) and dental studies entrance examination
Conventional Lecture Based Learning
Lenght of studies 6 years
Work with patients from the 4th year
Title upon graduation MDDr
Vocational training 36-months’ period necessary following graduation
Specialty training 3 years
        Orthodontics Periodontology
        Paediatric Dentistry Prosthodontics
        Oral Maxillo-facial Surgery  

Number of dental schools 2
 
Comenius University Medical School in Bratislava

Address   Špitálska 24 813 72 Bratislava    www.fmed.uniba.sk

Number of dental students 170


Pavol Jozef Šafárika University in Košice, Faculty of Medicine

Address   Trieda SNP č.1, 040 11 Košice    www.lf.upjs.sk


Number of dentists in the country 3 084

Dental Organization  
        Slovak Chamber of Dentists  
        Fibichova 14 821 05 Bratislava www.skzl.sk
Learn more about Slovakia www.slovakia.com www.slovakia.org  www.slovensko.com  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slovakia

 
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