Tag: Slovakia

Slovakia: holidays, national customs, climate Public holidays There are a number of public holidays that do not have a fixed date, but are based on the location of Easter. Easter takes place on the first Sunday that follows the first full moon after the beginning of spring. Ash Wednesday, the beginning of Lent, which ends…

Until the middle of the century. XIX the Slovaks used Latin and Czech for literary purposes, variously tinged with local dialectal influences, or, more rarely, Hungarian. It was, moreover, a modest and almost never original literature, which followed, in doctrinal disputes, in poetic forms and themes, and in prose of various kinds, European schemes, reaching…

Law In addition to civil and criminal matters, the ordinary jurisdiction is also responsible for comprehensive judicial administrative legal protection. It has a three-tier structure and is exercised by 54 district courts (the government is aiming for a lower number), eight district courts, a special criminal court (since 2004) and the Supreme Court. The latter…