Slovak National Council
Appearance
The Slovak National Council is the name of different types of supreme bodies in the history of Slovakia. They existed within the Kingdom of Hungary, Czechoslovakia or the Slovak Republic or were bodies of Slovak exiles:
- Slovak National Council (1848–1849) (during the 1848/1949 revolution), a Slovak political body, which was created in Vienna on September 15-16, 1848 during the Revolutions of 1848 (there is a commemorative tablet near the Karlskirche in Vienna). It was led by Ľudovít Štúr, Jozef Miloslav Hurban and Michal Miloslav Hodža
- Slovak National Council (1914) (an attempt by M. Dula during World War I)
- Slovak National Council (1918) (adopted the Declaration of the Slovak Nation)
- Slovak National Council (1920, 1933) (the Slovak National Council of F. Jehlička; a body of Slovak exiles)
- Slovak National Council (1939-1940) (the Slovak National Council of Milan Hodža)
- Slovak National Council (1943-1960), called "Slovak National Council Abroad" since 1948 (a body of Slovak exiles)
- Slovak National Council (1943–1992), which was renamed National Council of the Slovak Republic on October 1, 1992