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Coat of Arms of Slovakia

The Slovak republic is one of the youngest European newsomers on the map. Although the first mention of the region of today’s Slovakia being populated was back in the late Palaeolithic age, i.e. about 250 000 B.C. and the first sign of Slovakia in today’s terms being particularly evidenced by going back to 1029 in the phrase ‘dux Sclavonie’, the road to the creation of the Slovak republic was incredibly long.

Orange Arena

Orange Arena (Slovak: Zimný štadión Ondreja Nepelu), former Samsung Arena, is an arena in Bratislava, Slovakia. It is primarily used for ice hockey and it is the home arena of HC Slovan Bratislava. It opened in 1940 and held 8,350 people until its full reconstruction started in 2009. The reconstructed arena is due to open in spring 2011. It will have increased capacity of 10,000 spectators. In the past Samsung arena was called ST Arena and T-Com Arena. So-called "reconstruction" under command of SZLH president's company costs 96 million €. Beside the reconstruction SZLH president built a new hotel next to arena, which was built without building permit in the beginning. In this hotel will be accommodated Slovak and Czech ice-hockey players and team staff at the IHWC 2011.