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Slovak Ice Hockey Federation

ice hockey governing body in Slovakia

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 3, 2026
Entity authorityQ1284911 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Slovak Ice Hockey Federation (Slovak: Slovenský zväz ľadového hokeja, SZĽH) is the governing body that oversees ice hockey in Slovakia.

Paul Loicq Award recipient Juraj Okoličány served as chairman and vice-president of the federation from 1990 to 2003.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Slovak Ice Hockey Federation” is ice hockey governing body in Slovakia. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Slovak, Hockey and Federation, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1990, 2003—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1993. For this dossier, Slovak, Hockey and Federation is the immediate research focus.
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Why this record matters

The phrase “ice hockey governing body in Slovakia” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 3, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1284911. VIAF identifies the subject as 4656152025931903600005. Authority coordinates are 48.167, 17.139. 3 of 5 selected statements include explicit references; 2 carry qualifiers and 1 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1990 and 2003.

Critical limits

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  2. Expand the search: follow Slovak Ice Hockey Federation primary sources, Slovak Ice Hockey Federation archive and Slovak research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Slovak Ice Hockey Federation” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.