A state named for this ethnicity ceded parts of a region that once dominated opal mining after the 1939 “Little War.” During this ethnicity’s national revival, a leader of the Lutheran “trinity” failed to abolish the letter “y.” After the Diet rejected this ethnicity’s demands, 600 student-aged volunteers led an 1848 uprising galvanized by an anthem about lightning over the mountains. Partisans sent armored trains like Hurban against this ethnicity’s “clerofascist” Nazi client state, whose Hlinka Guard defended the Catholic priest Jozef Tiso. During World War I, M. R. Štefánik (“SHTAY-fah-neek”) represented this ethnicity on a “national council.” This ethnic group based in “Upper Hungary” made up less than 10 percent of a volunteer legion led by Tomáš Masaryk (“MAH-sah-reek”). For 10 points, what ethnicity names the eastern country created by the Velvet Divorce? ■END■
ANSWER: Slovaks [or Slovák, Slováci, Slovenka, or Slovenky; accept Slovakia or Slovensko; accept Slovak Republic, Slovenská republika, Slovak State, or Slovenský štát; prompt on Slavic peoples or West Slavs; prompt on Czechoslovaks or Českoslovenci or Čechoslováci; reject “Slovenes” or “Slovenians” or “Slovenci”] (Clues include the Prešov region and Červenica’s mines, the “trinity” of Ľudovít Štúr, Jozef Miloslav Hurban, and Michal Miloslav Hodža, and “Lightning over the Tatras.”)
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