The Slovaks and Slovakia in Hungarian history textbooks

The current Slovak historiography and teaching of history as a subject in school should search for and present those processes, phenomena and personalities which arc compatible with the so-called European historical dimension in connection with the current historical environment. The Hungarian State represented such an environment. The author of (his study has investigated current Hungarian course books. He studied the origin and the end of Hungarian state in the Slovak historical context. He has come to the conclusion that we have to respect historical facts, evaluate them with tolerance and in such a way we can overcome the residues of political conceptions, which were revived after 1990. The European Union is also a cultural phenomenon including the common historical heritage. The cultural and moral challenge is to make the Central European environment enter the Common Europe with settled mutual historical relations. History. Slovakia. The Slovaks and Slovakia in current Hungarian course books.