Editing Slovakia (section)

=== Literature ===
{{Further|Slovak literature}}
{{See also|List of Slovak authors}}

[[File:Bozetech Klemens Stur.jpg|thumb|upright=0.6|[[Ľudovít Štúr]] codified the Slovak standard language.]]
Christian topics include poem [[Proglas]] as a foreword to the four [[Gospel]]s, partial translations of the Bible into [[Old Church Slavonic]], ''Zakon sudnyj ljudem''.

[[Medieval literature]], in the period from the 11th to the 15th centuries, was written in [[Latin]], Czech and Slovakised Czech. Lyric (prayers, songs and formulas) was still controlled by the Church, while epic was concentrated on legends. Authors from this period include [[Johannes de Thurocz]], author of the [[Chronica Hungarorum]] and Maurus, both of them Hungarians.<ref name=Phillips>{{cite book |title=The dictionary of biographical reference: containing one hundred thousand names, together with a classed index of the biographical literature of Europe and America|url=https://archive.org/details/dictionarybiogr00philgoog|last=Lawrence Barnett Phillips |year=1871 |publisher=S. Low, Son, & Marston |page=1020}}</ref> The worldly literature also emerged and chronicles were written in this period.

Two leading persons codified Slovak. The first was [[Anton Bernolák]], whose concept was based on the western Slovak [[dialect]] in 1787. It was the codification of the first-ever literary language of Slovaks. The second was [[Ľudovít Štúr]], whose formation of the Slovak took principles from the central Slovak dialect in 1843.

Slovakia is also known for its polyhistors, of whom include [[Pavel Jozef Šafárik|Pavol Jozef Šafárik]], [[Matthias Bel|Matej Bel]], [[Ján Kollár]], and its political revolutionaries and reformists, such [[Milan Rastislav Štefánik]] and [[Alexander Dubček]].