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Slovakia is a small landlocked country in Central Europe. Its position is characterized by the intersection of major Eurasian tectonic and climatic domains, which predetermines general features of the Slovak landscape and the occurrence of specific landforms. The first work on the landscape, history and people of Slovakia, “Notitia Hungariae Novae Historico Geographica” (1735–1742) and its abridged version “Compendium Hungariae geographicum” (1753) was written by Matej Bel. The pioneer study dealing with the geomorphological development of Slovakia is the book by Jan Hromádka, “Všeobecný zemepis Slovenska” (Hromádka in Všeobecný zemepis Slovenska. Slovenská akadémia vied a umení, Bratislava, 256 pp, 2013). The strong input to the research of the physical landscape of Slovakia was made in 1950–1960s. A history of the geomorphological division of Slovakia is shortly described and the map of geomorphological division of Slovakia and 14 landscapes portrayed in individual chapters of the book are presented.
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Lehotský, M., Rusnák, M., Novotný, J. (2022). Short History of Geomorphological Research and Geomorphological Division of Slovakia. In: Lehotský, M., Boltižiar, M. (eds) Landscapes and Landforms of Slovakia. World Geomorphological Landscapes. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-89293-7_1
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