List of rulers of Slovakia

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This is a List of rulers of Slovakia.

Notes:

  • A stands for the House of Arpád
  • M stands for the House of Mojmír
  • In the 10th to 12th century, only app. 1/3 of Slovakia’s territory (southern Slovakia) was under Hungarian rule, the remaining territory was ruled by many Slavic/Slovak regional rulers, whose names are unknown.

Contents

[edit] Quadi

[edit] Early Slavs

  • Samo (623-658) (ruler of a Slavic tribal union)

[edit] Principality of Nitra - Princes

  • ? (to c.825)
  • Pribina (c.825-833) (today considered by some the first known Slovak ruler, later the ruler of the Balaton Principality (c.839-861), there succeeded by his son Koceľ (861-876))

[edit] Great Moravia - Princes (later kings)

[edit] Nitrian Principality

[edit] Hungarian chieftains ("dukes")

  • Lél (c. 920-955) [a Hungarian duke]
  • Zoltan A (955-?971) [some sources: Taksony A (955-?), Geza A (?-971, the future Grand Prince of Hungary)]

[edit] Within the Hungarian Principality - Princes

  • Michael A (971-995) [some sources: Michael A (971-c. 977), Ladislaus the Bold A (977-995)]
  • Vajk A (995-997) [the future king of Hungary known as Stephen the Great]
  • ? (997-1001) [some sources: Ladislaus the Bold A (997-1001) again]

[edit] Within the Polish Principality - Princes

[edit] Within the Kingdom of Hungary - Princes

  • ? (c. 1030-1042) [some sources: Samuel Aba (1038-1041, the future king of Hungary)]
  • Domoslav A (1042) [installed temporarily by Bohemia]
  • ? (1042-1048)

[edit] Nitrian Frontier Duchy (Tercia Pars Regni) within the Kingdom of Hungary - Dukes

  • Béla A (1048-1060/1063) [the future king of Hungary]
  • Geza A (1063/1064- 1074) [the future king of Hungary]
  • Ladislaus A (1063 and 1074-1077) [the future king of Hungary]
  • Lampert A (1077-1095)
  • Álmos A (1095-1108)

[edit] Integral part of Hungary (1108-1918)

see: List of Hungarian rulers

[edit] Part of Czechoslovakia (1918-1939 and 1945-1992)

see:

[edit] Independent Slovakia (1939-1945 and since 1993)

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