Slovakia is a small country of five million people located in Central Europe. The country was created in 1993 when Czechoslovakia, a country that had been created out of the Austro-Hungarian Empire at the end of World War I, amicably split into two new countries--the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, when Slovakia was an ethnic region in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, hundreds of thousands of Slovaks immigrated to the United States, most of them settling in Midwestern industrial cities like Cleveland and Pittsburgh. Many of the Slovaks who settled in Cleveland resided in the Buckeye Road Neighborhood. One such immigrant to this neighborhood was Anna Hurban, who, in 1892, founded the First Catholic Slovak Ladies Association.Download Original File
