Slovakia features natural landscapes, mountains, caves, medieval castles and towns, folk architecture, spas and ski resorts. More than 1.6 million people visited Slovakia in 2006, and the most attract ...
There are 9 national parks in Slovakia:Name Established AreaTatra National Park 1949 738 square kilometres (73,800 ha)Low Tatras National Park 1978 728 square kilometres (72,800 ha)Ve?ká Fatra Natio ...
Main article: History of SlovakiaA Venus from Moravany nad Váhom, which dates back to 22,800 BC.Radiocarbon dating puts the oldest surviving archaeological artifacts from Slovakia – found near Nové ...
Main article: History of SlovakiaA Venus from Moravany nad Váhom, which dates back to 22,800 BC.Radiocarbon dating puts the oldest surviving archaeological artifacts from Slovakia – found near Nové ...
It derived its name from Illyria. It was also called Illyris Romana, Illyris Barbara, or Illyria BarbaraGeography It stretched from the Drilon river in modern north Albania to Istria (Croatia) in the ...
See also: Dalmatia (theme), Principality of Dalmatian Croatia, Kingdom of Croatia (Medieval) and Medieval Dalmatian principalitiesThe Middle Ages in Dalmatia were a period of intense rivalry among nei ...
The name Dalmatia derives from the name of the Dalmatae tribe, which is connected with the Illyrian word delme meaning "sheep" (Albanian: dele).In antiquity the Roman province of Dalmatia was much lar ...
See also: Switzerland in the Roman eraLittle is known of the origin or history of the Raetians, who appear in the records as one of the most powerful and warlike of the Alpine tribes. Livy states dist ...
Fourteen Celtic tribes and twenty Aquitanian tribes occupied the northern parts of the Pyrenees and, from the country of the Cemmenus to the ocean, bounded by two rivers: the Garumna (Garonne) and the ...
In the 16th century, the name La Monta?a (The Mountain) was widespread in popular usage and in literature, as a designation of the Ancient Cantabria, as opposed to Castile, which referred solely to t ...
Numerous authors, including Isidore of Seville, Julio Caro Baroja, Aureliano Fernández Guerra, Joaquín González Echegaray, and Adolf Schulten, have explored the etymology of the name "Cantabria", y ...
Germanicus was born in Rome in 15 BC. His parents were the general Nero Claudius Drusus (son of Empress Livia Drusilla, third wife of Emperor Augustus) and Antonia Minor (the younger daughter of the t ...
Drusus was the youngest son of Livia Drusilla from her marriage to Tiberius Claudius Nero, who was legally declared his father before the couple divorced. Drusus was born between mid-March and mid-Apr ...
Agrippa had several children through his three marriages:By his first wife, Caecilia Attica, he had a daughter, Vipsania Agrippina, who was to be the first wife of the Emperor Tiberius, and who gave b ...
Agrippa was born between 23 October and 23 November in 64–62 BC, in an uncertain location. His father was perhaps called Lucius Vipsanius Agrippa. He had an elder brother whose name was also Lucius V ...
