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 Slovak regional rulers, whose names are unknown.
Early Slavs
- Samo (623-658) [ruler of a Slavic (supra-)tribal union]
- ? (to c.825)
- Pribina (c.825-833) [later the ruler of the Balaton Principality (c.839-861), there succeeded by his son Koceľ (861-876)]
- Rastislav M (846-870) [in the Nitrian Principality: Svätopluk M (867-870) and Louis the German (870-871)]
- Svätopluk M (871-894)
- Svätopluk II M (894-?899/906)]
Nitrian Principality
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)]
- 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]
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)
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)
Integral part of Hungary (1108-1918)
see: List of Hungarian rulers
Part of Czechoslovakia (1918-1939 and 1945-1992)
see:
Independent Slovakia (1939-1945 and since 1993)
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