The today‘s territory of Slovakia was settled already in the primeval ages. Discoveries that show evidence come from the eras of different civilizations. One of the significant archeologic discoveries is a mould of a Neanderthal man skull from Gánovce by Poprad. From the oldest ages there were preserved lots of material sources: dishes, tools, weapons, as well as a statue of a woman - Venus from Nitriansky Hrádok. She is very famous perhaps because she has been given the honour to be on the Slovak 2 crown coin.

In our territory, the territory between the Tatras and the Danube river, the first people – Celts- are mentioned in the oldest records from 3rd century BC. After them there were left behind the Biatek coins which are depicted on the Slovak 5 crown coin.

As the first territorial entity was mentioned the Great Samo’s Empire, which originates from 7th. Century A.D.. King Samo was a tradesman and had many wives.

Later on there is mentioned the separation of Empire into principalities – Nitrian principality was Pribina‘s. Pribina is on the Slovak 20 crown note. Moravian principality was Mojmir‘s. Mojmir expelled Pribina and gained his princedom. In the year 833 Mojmir created Great Moravia. In the year 863 under the rule of prince Rastislav brothers Saint Constantin (Cyril) and Methodius came to the territory of Great Moravia. They preached Christianity and introduced the first scripts - the first Slavonic alphabet. King Svatopluk transformed Great Moravia into a big and powerful Empire. The Great Moravia died away in 906.
After the downfall of the Empire the whole land of Slovakia was gradually amalgamated into Hungarian Empire with the capital of Budin. .

During the Turkish invasion Bratislava became the temporary capital for some time.
The most famous personalities of Hungarian Empire are: Matej Korvin, Matej Bela, Juraj Janosik, Maria Theresia and Joseph II from the generation of the Habsburg family, and Frantisek Rakoczy. All these people were prominent in a way– either by reformation or by wisdom or by rebellion.

Ludovit Stur, Jozef Miloslav Hurban and Michal Miloslav Hodza legalized in 1843 the literary Slovak language.

The Hungarian Empire lasted almost 1000 years until the 1st World War. In the year 1918 the Republik of Czechoslovakia was established. One of the founding members of the joint state with Czechs was Slovak called Milan Rastislav Stefanik. .

Slovak republik was established on January 1st,1993 with the capital of Bratislava.