English Translation

- 1 - 26 The life of the Slovaks in the former Hungary was certainly very different from that of the Czech during the Middle Ages. It was not only under the influence of the German, but also of the magyar, south Slavic, Polish and ru- rhyme atmosphere, was politically dependent on the Hungarian kingdom and, due to its geographical location, included more to the Danube and to the Magyar areas of the lowlands than to the east to Moravia and Bohemia. The laws and customs of Hungarian political unity gave our people a certain political character, which we have not been completely freed to this day, nothing is changed, that the low ethnic groups, the non-free people and the free nobility took their spiritual nourishment from common Czech literature, from the common sacred books The peasant little aristocracy and the higher strata maintained close relations with the magyar peasant nobility already in ancient times on the way of the Latin language. The peasant's needle was a national Hungarian people, the Hungarian indigenous was the basis of predilection and political affiliation. In Slovakia, the Magyars also settled many of their Carinthians, who developed into powerful aristocrats and ruled the regions. Pálffy, Károlyi, Andrassy and others were also of the language according to magyar origin and possessed huge goods in Slovakia. That the high aristocracy up to the l8, century consciously and systematically not the Magyaric language was born (which once did not know), does not change anything about the matter, He often magyariized vn- consciously. Detailed and accurate historical and ethnographic research will probably find more than an aristocratic ele- ment in both the Dressůng and the Foll:lor of our people. However, it will not be a magical element, but rather an element brought in by the Magyar landlord. It is well known that the language, better to say, had an influence on individual Slovak dialects of the Magyar language (but also unreturned), Czembel has pointed out. Many Magyarisms in Slovakia have become completely naturalized. The Czardás is a well-known dance throughout Slovakia, whether the ma- gyars appropriated it from the old Slavs or changed Slavic elements to magyar, is secondary matter, We have - 2 -