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now good to see you again so this
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episode slovakia
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all right for the 18th time on this
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channel in the slavic world you have
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the eastern slavs don't just come out
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come on
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the balkan slavs
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and then you have the central slavs come
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play with
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us and within central slavs you have
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slovakia the youngest sibling who's like
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hey guys guys hey guys
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i have an automotive industry come on
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you like cars what about mountains you
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like skiing
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yes slovakia it's like the jan of europe
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if and you guys know that reference by
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the way guys this is terry he's going to
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be in the solomon islands episode he's
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just
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here for the moment so yeah say hi terry
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hi anyway
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cue the new intro
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it's time to learn geography now hey
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everybody i'm your host barb's
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slovakia not slovenia that's the next
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episode they're sick and tired of being
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confused with each other
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they literally even have a monthly meet
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up between embassies to exchange
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mistakenly addressed mail to make things
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even more confusing they're both slavic
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countries their flags are similar they
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both had a history of dramatic communism
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years and even their names and languages
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have the same prefix of
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sloven nonetheless before we start just
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want to introduce someone who will be
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helping me throughout this episode one
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of slovakia's top youtubers pp peter hey
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guys
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thanks for having me barbs huge fan of
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the show i was born and raised in
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slovakia i lived there for
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18 years so i hope i can be of some help
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thanks peter man
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and let's look at the globe shall we cue
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new transitions
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ah slovakia we just kind of slipped out
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of the austro-hungarian empire and
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peacefully exited czechoslovakia we kind
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of do that we slip out of places
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yeah you guys are kind of slippery also
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if you look at the shape of the country
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it kind of looks like an elephant
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head with a really fat trunk in any case
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here's the globe
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first of all slovakia is landlocked
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located in the region of central europe
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bordering five other countries so
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central that some claim that the village
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of kremnitzke bane is the geographic
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center of europe but like a ton of other
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countries claimed that too so
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good luck anyway the country is divided
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into eight crier or regions
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each of which is named after the
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principal city that lies in it and each
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has a unique flag from there the capital
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city bratislava which has gone by many
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names in the past lies in the far west
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in its own cry it is the only country
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capital on earth to have its general
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metropolitan area
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border two countries austria and hungary
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pratislav is not only the largest city
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but also home to the largest and busiest
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airport m r stefanik airport and koshitse the
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second largest city of course has the
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second busiest airport koshita
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international as a landlocked country
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slovakia's water transport is almost
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entirely exclusive to the various river
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systems found in their country the
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largest and busiest port of course no
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shocker being bratislava port located
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right on the danube however keep in mind
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this small plot of land on the other
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side of the river in petrajalka belongs
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to slovakia and not austria
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careening south to the hungarian border
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from there only two other international
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ports exist
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in komarno and sturovo both on the
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border with hungary slovakia has a very
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extensive state-owned rail network
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called the jet s air reaching nearly every major
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town and region from there the border is
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pretty simple
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mostly lining up on natural boundaries
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like rivers or mountains with the
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occasional anomaly like velquez
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a town inhabited mostly by hungarians
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split between slovakia and ukraine
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making a dual split minority ethnic
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enclave fun fact slovakia has five
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tripoints with their neighbors
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you can find tripoint posts for every
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single one even if the border is across
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the river
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that was quite a bit wait peter you're
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from bratislava right yeah bratislava is
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kind of a weird place man they have a
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ufo restaurant on their bridge
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and a ufo sculpture i guess we like ufos
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a lot
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oh and see if you can find a sewer
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worker statue
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a car cableway and if you look carefully
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see how many hidden war bunkers you can
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find the weirdness doesn't stop in bratislava
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in other parts of slovakia you can find
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things like cage of shame in levocha where annoying
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people would be put if they're gossiped
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too much
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a hotel that looks like this and they
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even have a train that goes through a
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football field for some reason
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i was there for the second episode of my
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youtube travel series from slovakia that
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shows the most intriguing places of our
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little big country
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wow that's like the worst place to put a
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train track i know
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why would they do that i don't know
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slovakia well speaking of notable spots
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what are some of the cool sides to see
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peter
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let's see you have the starabistritsa
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astronomical clock the khmarovski
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viaduct
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levocha cathedral with the tallest
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wooden altar in the world
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painted village of money and the warhol
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museum of modern art
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the clash doris corons biestiani spa and
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the most notable sides would have to be
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one of the many
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many historical wooden churches or the
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over 200 castles and 400
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chateaus found in the country which
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depending on your definition of a castle
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makes slovakia one of the countries with
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the highest number of
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castles per capita in the world nope
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nope so black you listen here wales has
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more castles per capita than you do so
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we take that title okay thank you
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yeah put it up there ah thank you random
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welsh correspondent duncan follow him on
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instagram at curly good life and
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thank you peter now slovakia doesn't
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just have a bunch of notable buildings
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and monuments they also have some sweet
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nature which brings us to
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so there's kind of an ongoing joke in
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slovakia it kind of goes like this
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on tonight's news tragedy struck as
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local authorities discovered a mountain
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climber who was found dead near the top
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of vinitza peak just just say it we
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already know come on man
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come on identified as mr yakub
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novak from prague
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yeah they love their czech brothers but
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check it isn't exactly known for being
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the most mountain savvy country on earth
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which brings us to the motion graphic
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being over 80
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mountainous slovakia sits on the
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northern part of what is now the larger
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chain of mountains known as the
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carpathians that swing into a hook all
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the way to romania within the slovakia
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section there are subsections of mini
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ranges like the little carpathians the
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slovak central mountains the ore
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mountains the maple the little and great
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fatras and the low and high tatras the
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latter of which you can find the tallest
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peak gerlachowski
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from these mountains flow many of the
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mighty rivers such as the longest one
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the va river at about 403 kilometers
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long of course the danube river is probably
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considered the most important as it
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passes through paratuslava and many
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other important towns along the
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hungarian border along the danube is one
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of only two major flat
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areas the danubian lowlands and hills
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this is where the highest concentration
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of people live in the country and where
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about half of the agriculture is
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produced from there the only other main
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uninterrupted flat area would be the
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eastern slovak flat by the tripoint with
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hungary and ukraine slovakia doesn't
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really have many large lakes or inland
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bodies of water the largest one probably
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being the lake orava reservoir fed by the old
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rava river in fact the creation of this
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reservoir inundated several villages
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including the famous slanitsa birthplace
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of this famous guy who
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standardized the slovak language so yeah
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kind of sucks for his legacy in any case
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finally within slovakia you can find
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over 6 000 known caves like the longest
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one the cave of liberty one of the only
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few rare argonite caves in the world it
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is also a unesco heritage site and to
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this day caves are still being
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discovered and charted they love their
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caves so yeah long story short slovakia
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is definitely a mountain country hiking
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is one of their favorite pastimes
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and within these mountains you can find
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over 1
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300 mineral springs in fact slovakia
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claims to have
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more public mineral springs per capita
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than any other country
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and they have the second largest
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reserves of fresh drinking water in
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europe after austria and hot springs
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they have them too most famous one being
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in piesciani which was a favorite spot
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for romans
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oh and we have this unique meadow with
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thousands of ground squirrels where you
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can
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feed them and play with them yeah a lot
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of strange places in slovakia
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thank you peter all right and now is
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usually time when noah comes in but he's
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visiting family on the holidays so how
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about this for a slavic country why
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don't we have our favorite resident slav
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it's time for yvonne come on in fill in
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for noah
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all right now as you can kind of see
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slovakia is huge on nature but within
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this nature there's a lot of resources
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and industry going on too
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today slovakia is one of the only few
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places on earth where opal can be mined
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and prior to the 20th century when
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australia had an opal boom slovakia was
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the only place in the world where opal
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was mined during the second half of the
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20th century when they were part of
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czechoslovakia slovakia became heavily
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industrialized as they were seen as less
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of a geographic military threat thanks
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to that move about
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30 percent of their overall gdp is in
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industry today the largest and fastest
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provider being the
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automotive industry today slovakia is
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the largest car manufacturer per capita
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in the world after joining the eu in 2004 and having
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an easier system
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of business companies from volkswagen
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jaguar land rover and kia have opened up
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manufacturing plants
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which of course slovakia was totally
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down for i mean who wouldn't be
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in fact their impressive emerging
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economic output was so impressive during
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the early 2000s they were
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nicknamed the tatra tiger and speaking
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of tigers
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here's gary harlow to give you a little
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rundown on the animal situation going on
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in slovakia oh
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it's me as a nature haven slovakia has a
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lot going on
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especially in one of the nine national
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parks most of which are located in the
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central mountainous parts of the country
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here a plethora of diverse alpine and
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carnivorous
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forest region species can be found like
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the most common mammals
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european beers foxes wildcats
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and minks hunting is completely
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prohibited within the parks and some
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species are protected nationwide there's over
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300 beard species like
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loons egrets and stalks flying around
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probably dropping off babies as do 17
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species of amphibians the pool frog the
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marsh frog the edible frog
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named that way because it's commonly
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eaten the edible frog
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is also a kleptocot which means it
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reproduces asexually
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essentially laying cloned eggs of itself
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it's super weird
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so remember slovakia home of the cloning
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frogs that you can eat and that's all
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for me
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thanks gary well speaking of edible it's
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time we end off
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this segment as we always do food two
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words potatoes and dairy specifically
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sheep dairy soul box
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love these two things i mean they love
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it they have everything from
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potato pancakes both thick and thin
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potato dumplings
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and even their national dish is a bunch
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of potato lumps with
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sheep cheese and bacon how does that
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make you feel ivan as a serb
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i definitely would eat it cousins long
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lost they even have this
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massive fried cheese thing sauerkraut
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and sausage soup
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garlic soup and of course the national
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drink
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and chatra tea which is a liquor made
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from tea
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oh and speaking of drinking don't forget
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the kapurkova
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you have to drink the last shot offered
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to you before
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you leave a house it's considered
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disrespectful if you don't
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in fact we slovaks have a long history
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of drinking
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even some of our high-ranking
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politicians that were recorded
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drunk in public jan super who literally
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crashed
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his car oh yeah and we eat carp on
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christmas
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but it's like uh terrible it has too
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many bones and has a muddy flavor
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people even end up in the hospital for
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swallowing bones
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but we still do it yeah thanks peter
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note taken and speaking of traditions
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and customs we are ready to move on to
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the next segment
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the
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thank you yvonne peter how would you
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describe what it means to be
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a slovak we are a very patriotic nation
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it also means
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being kinda left out of everything and
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also being very passionate about everything
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you like
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but also about everything you hate that
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has to be said
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lastly being religious for most of the
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time and loving strong alcohol
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i like that thanks peter oh by the way
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this is a slovak axe
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one of you guys sent it to me for fan
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friday forgot who it was but thank you
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in any case here is the demographics
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graph first of all slovakia has a
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population of about 5.5 million people
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and has a near net zero migration rate
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the country is of course primarily made
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up of ethnic slovaks at somewhere around
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82 percent the second largest group
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would be hungarians living mostly along
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the southern part of the country at
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about
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8.3 percent i mean at one point in
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history much of slovakia was actually
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called upper hungary from there you have
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the romani or
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roma estimated at about two percent and
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the rest are groups mostly slavic and
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origin like czechs ukrainians and
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uruzins not russians russians keep in
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mind there is a difference as well as a
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few non-europeans
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they use the euro as their currency they
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use the type c and e plug outlets and
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they drive on the right side of the road
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the official language is of course
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slovak which by the way has the longest
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alphabet in europe with 46 letters
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long story short it's basically the same
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language as czech there's like a few
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small minor differences
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peter explain ah this is a tough one to
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explain czech is the only slavic language
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slovaks can perfectly understand we're
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used to check language in media movies etc
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since birth so we kind of learn it
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subconsciously
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czechs can understand slovak perfectly
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too but they are definitely worse at
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speaking slovak as they are not used to
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slavic things as much as we're used to
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check things for example a blueberry is
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chuchorietka in slovak but boroufka
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in czech stork is botsean
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in slovak but chop in czech
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while turtle is koritnachka in slovak
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but jelva in czech completely different
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words thank you peter anyway all right so
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faith-wise
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unlike their czech brothers most slovaks
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do to whatever degree of devotion at
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least nominally identify with being part of a
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religion or church about two-thirds
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claim catholicism four percent greek
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byzantine catholicism yeah that's a
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thing protestants make up about 10
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and the russian community is mostly
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orthodox which going off of that i think
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might be a good opportunity to briefly
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talk about the russian people or
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sometimes called ruthenian or
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carpatho-ruthinians even though they
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only make up about one percent of the
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population slovakia has the highest
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population of
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rusins out of any other country in
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europe they are a stateless people group
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spread mostly across poland slovakia and
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ukraine they have their own unique
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language architecture traditions and
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even
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flags if you ever find yourself in
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slovakia and have time check out a rusin
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village it's a refreshing experience i
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guess you'll be like so cultured and
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enlightened
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what is my life becoming cool people in
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slovakia and one thing all the people
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love is sports and with that here's art with
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the sports part
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whoa nice to see it's been a really long
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time since we've shot geography now
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slovakia okay so with this country there
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is one sport they absolutely go crazy
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for ice hockey every soul vacuum me will at
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some point gloat about the 2002 world
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championship
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that they won against russia it was a
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real huge deal for them
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of course figure skating has always been
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a favorite pastime as well
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these two guys won like a lot of awards
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and i can't pronounce their names at all
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try to pronounce them art how would you
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pronounce that andres nepala
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andres nipples andres andre's nipple
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after that like most countries soccer or
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football
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is a second favorite sport and every
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slovak will tell you about the time that
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they beat italy in 2010.
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finally they've received 36 medals in
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the olympics up to the
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last one in 2016. not including the
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times that they were competing
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under czechoslovakia or the austria
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or the austro-hungarian empire it sucks
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that the olympics were cancelled in
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2020. am i right and for some reason the
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only event that they excel at the most
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is canoeing yeah they have like eight
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gold medals in canoeing for some reason
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slovakia really rose my boat no wait it
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floats my pose
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thank you art yes levox will surprise
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you just when you think you got them
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figured out easter comes around
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and they celebrate like this
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yeah no joke and with that i guess it
00:15:51
would probably be appropriate to jump
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into the random hannah culture segment
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here's random hannah
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yeah that tradition it's supposed to
00:15:58
symbolize a woman blossoming into beauty
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okay oh and speaking of beauty very
00:16:03
quickly guess what
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i'm wearing a shirt with my own face on
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it which you can also purchase at
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geographynow.com
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now into the episode anyway as an
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industry powerhouse it's no surprise
00:16:15
that slovaks have quite a few inventions
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under their belt
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this guy had about 20 patents including
00:16:21
one of the first
00:16:22
wireless telegraph machines and this guy
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supposedly was the real inventor of the
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modern helicopter during weddings and
00:16:28
special events and festivals you might
00:16:30
spot
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the traditional folk costume for men and
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women known as kroy the styles vary
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by region but usually include white
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shirts and blouses with patterned
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multi-colored aprons
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vests and head coverings so box have a
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deep history of folklore
00:16:45
and storytelling one of the most famous
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legendary heroes being yoroshin did i
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say it right
00:16:51
good enough who is basically the slovak
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version of robin hood
00:16:54
today they have made one movie that
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received an oscar in 1966 for the best
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foreign language film the shop on main
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street depicted a story in world war ii
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keep in mind
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this was when they were under
00:17:05
czechoslovakia but the movie was made
00:17:07
with a complete slovak cast and filmed
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in slovakia and finally we cannot forget
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the contributions to the visual arts the
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most common pottery you will find is
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likely the moderate style
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of ceramic usually white and blue with
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elaborate floral patterns
00:17:22
otherwise since independence in 93
00:17:24
slovakia has dabbled more and more
00:17:26
into the modern contemporary movement
00:17:28
it's not uncommon to find galleries with
00:17:31
pieces depicting distorted scenes
00:17:33
and still lives done with aggressive
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brush strokes and a hint of surrealism
00:17:37
and speaking of surreal here's keith
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with his music
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segment by my shirt
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[Music]
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all right so you all know the drill here
00:17:47
look at this you can wear literally this
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face on your body at geographynow.com i make
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sure my hair looks
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good so slovakia first off the old stuff
00:17:56
in slovakia bone pipes dating back to my
00:18:00
phone going off want to make a
00:18:02
meaningful
00:18:03
connection in slovakia bone pipes dating
00:18:07
back to the early bronze age were
00:18:09
discovered near the neutral region and
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celts
00:18:12
were ruling the area today during
00:18:14
festivals slovakia style bagpipes and
00:18:16
jaw harps are commonly played however
00:18:19
one instrument every slovak will proudly
00:18:21
boast about the fujaro it's like a super
00:18:24
tall wooden bassoon looking thing
00:18:26
very unique to the country and often
00:18:28
considered a national symbol
00:18:30
from the 1800s slovak music became more
00:18:34
austro-hungarian influence composers
00:18:36
like this dude
00:18:38
became a prominent figure in the
00:18:39
romantic genre during this
00:18:42
time today the music culture in slovakia
00:18:44
has evolved through many layers of
00:18:46
influences from every period of their
00:18:47
history and fuses them together
00:18:49
this lady marika gambitova has like more
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albums than any other slovak artist
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today they have some of the most
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renowned festivals in europe like
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bratislava
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music festival uh and peacekee any uh
00:19:02
p ish guinea festivals
00:19:05
and one of the most well-known and hoda
00:19:08
festivals
00:19:10
dating back to the 50s you're just gonna
00:19:12
leave that
00:19:13
finally gotta add some metal slovakia
00:19:15
definitely holds their
00:19:16
ground in the metal culture here are
00:19:18
some really great bands i have found
00:19:20
through my findings list right here uh
00:19:23
also
00:19:24
a big shout out to our fellow geographer
00:19:26
peep andre
00:19:27
from romania he sent me this shirt uh i
00:19:30
think his band's called
00:19:31
iana either way go check them out
00:19:32
they're cool thank you keith all right
00:19:33
and with that let's quickly summarize
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the history of slovakia there's a lot of
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stuff
00:19:37
it goes back to the early bronze and
00:19:38
iron age lots of different peoples and
00:19:40
tribes took over like the celts
00:19:42
lots of invasions even the huns got in
00:19:44
on it then the slavs came in
00:19:46
and samos empire great moravian the 9th
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century the hungarian kingdom years
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czechoslovakia established in 1918 world
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war ii they were kind of a nazi puppet
00:19:54
state they're not too proud of it
00:19:55
slovak uprising communism years velvet
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revolution they peacefully split off
00:19:59
from czechia and they joined the eu
00:20:01
that's basically it and now here's the
00:20:02
part of the episode where we mentioned
00:20:04
some of the top notable people from
00:20:05
slovakia there's so many of them i'm
00:20:06
just going to kind of put on a photo
00:20:08
montage so you can kind of just
00:20:09
maybe take a screenshot and hear some of
00:20:11
them and of course you p peter deserve a
00:20:13
spot on this section
00:20:14
let's be real and with that let's move
00:20:15
on to the final segment the
00:20:22
all right slovakia and friends now when
00:20:24
you're a country that's kind of been
00:20:26
subjugated by multiple empires and people groups and
00:20:28
been exposed to many different
00:20:30
ethnicities you kind of you know build
00:20:32
up your repertoire and entourage over
00:20:33
the years you know what i'm saying
00:20:34
that's kind of how slovakia is
00:20:36
for one austrian hungary are like the
00:20:37
hey oh don't worry about those empire
00:20:39
years you subjugated us under for
00:20:41
centuries we're cool
00:20:42
i mean we're still keeping our eyes on
00:20:43
you but we're cool these days but not
00:20:45
for real today much of their business
00:20:47
goes through these two
00:20:48
countries and they get along just fine
00:20:49
now for albania and romania they were
00:20:51
the only two warsaw pact members that
00:20:53
did not participate in the 1968 invasion
00:20:55
of czechoslovakia which the incident
00:20:56
even led albania to withdrawing from the
00:20:58
pact so there's always that kind of uh
00:21:00
thank you for not being a douche towards
00:21:01
us
00:21:02
attitude when it comes to albania and
00:21:03
romania interestingly enough
00:21:05
little liechtenstein had a long-standing
00:21:07
dispute over some land that they claimed
00:21:09
belongs to them in slovakia this dispute
00:21:11
lasted until 2009 when they finally
00:21:13
arranged diplomatic relations however
00:21:15
some people might still bring up the
00:21:16
dispute ukraine croatia serbia and
00:21:18
poland are the slav cousins they like to
00:21:20
see from time to time and share hearty
00:21:22
conversations with many slovaks like to visit croatia for
00:21:25
vacation and likewise many people from
00:21:27
all the other countries like to visit
00:21:28
the slovak mountains for ukraine
00:21:30
slovakia is like their gateway to the eu
00:21:32
and many come over not just to visit but
00:21:34
study in their universities
00:21:35
finland kind of sees slovakia as a good
00:21:37
luck charm as they won the ice hockey
00:21:39
world championship
00:21:40
twice when it was hosted in slovakia in
00:21:42
2019 and 2011.
00:21:43
india south korea japan armenia mexico
00:21:46
and the usa are some of the countries
00:21:47
outside of europe that have all had high
00:21:49
profile visits either by heads of state
00:21:51
or foreign ministers and each country
00:21:52
has expressed interest in expanding
00:21:54
relationships when it comes to their
00:21:55
best friends however
00:21:56
it's not even a best friend it's almost
00:21:58
a conjoined twin czechia
00:22:00
or the czech republic these two are as
00:22:02
close as two countries can possibly be
00:22:04
they basically speak the same language
00:22:06
they have shared almost every moment of
00:22:07
history together
00:22:08
and they just get each other the best
00:22:10
the only difference is that czechia
00:22:12
tends to be more liberal slovakia more
00:22:13
conservative czechia less religious
00:22:15
slovakia more religious czechia drinks
00:22:17
more beer slovakia drinks more spirits
00:22:19
but otherwise they are practically
00:22:21
joined at the hip in conclusion peter i
00:22:23
think you should take this one what
00:22:24
would you say
00:22:25
slovakia is like czechia's little
00:22:27
sibling everyone keeps forgetting about
00:22:30
or mistaking it for its twin slovenia
00:22:32
it may not be big in size but it's huge
00:22:35
in natural wonders
00:22:36
quirky places slash traditions and very
00:22:39
passionate and generous people
00:22:41
perhaps the most common connotation with
00:22:44
slovaks i've heard from foreigners
00:22:46
is that we're crazy but in a good way so
00:22:48
remember
00:22:49
crazy but in a good way awesome peter
00:22:52
love that you rock
00:22:54
thank you for being in this episode
00:22:55
check his youtube channel out stay tuned
00:22:57
slovenia the not slovakia country is
00:23:00
coming up next
00:23:08
[Music]
00:23:20
me

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