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166:, drawn mainly from the Slovak National Party. In the afternoon, the newly-constituted council issued the declaration and sent it to Prague. The declaration announced: "The Slovak Nation is a part of the Czecho-Slovak Nation, united in language and in the history of its culture" and declared that only the Slovak National Council, not the Hungarian government or any other authority, was authorised to speak for the Slovak nation. 90: 198:-style federated state. Beneš soon afterward broke his promise, and the Slovaks soon found themselves being relegated to the status of a national minority. Thereafter, Slovakia was governed as part of the centralised Czechoslovak state, which had been established by the Czechoslovak National Assembly in Prague. 189:
Some Slovak representatives argued for autonomy for Slovakia and for the country to have its own devolved assembly, but that was rejected by the Czechoslovak government, and Šrobár dissolved the Slovak National Council in January 1919. The delegates at Turčiansky Svätý Martin had not defined exactly
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in Washington and Paris. The Slovaks acted independently, as news of the Czech declaration had not reached Martin by the time of the Slovak declaration. The council attempted to take control of Slovakia but was thwarted by a Hungarian military intervention, which seized Martin on 15 November. Czech
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what they meant by the "Czecho-Slovak Nation" but seemingly had in mind a definition that upheld the distinct national identity and individuality of the Slovak people. The Slovaks had been promised to become equal partners in what
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On the morning of 30 October 1918, 108 delegates attended the meeting in the Tatra Bank in Martin and elected a twelve-member
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The declaration came two days after the declaration of Czechoslovak independence by the
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Memorial plaque to the Declaration of the Slovak Nation in Martin, Slovakia
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A treaty signed by Slovak politicians to form the country Czecho-Slovakia
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Slovak separatist ambitions were largely suspended during
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troops soon took the town, and the new government in
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Index

Turčiansky Svätý Martin
Slovak National Council
Karol Medvecký
Matúš Dula
Slovakia
Kingdom of Hungary
Czech lands

Slovak
Slovak Nation
Slovak
Martin, Slovakia
Kingdom of Hungary
Austro-Hungarian Empire
Czech lands
Czechoslovakia
World War I
Slovak National Party
Matúš Dula
Slovak National Council
Czech National Committee
Czechoslovak declaration of independence
Prague
Vavro Šrobár
Edvard Beneš
Swiss



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