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The Visegrád group (also called the Visegrád 4 or V4) is an alliance of four Central European states:
Historically, the Visegrád group originated in 1335, when the Czech, the Polish and the Hungarian king held a meeting in the Hungarian city of Visegrád. The modern era V4 group originated in a summit of the heads of state or government of Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Poland held in the city of Visegrád on February 15, 1991, to establish co-operation between these three states (which, with the division of Czechoslovakia, became four) in order to further the process of European integration. The members of the Visegrád group entered the European Union on 1 May 20042004 is a leap year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 2004 calendar), and has also been designated the: International Year of Rice International Year to Commemorate the Struggle against Slavery and its Abolition Elections are to be held in 73 co.
The Visegrád group, along with the Alpine countriesThe Alpine countries sometimes called Alpine nations or Alpine states are a group of nations taken to be part of either Central Europe along with the Visegrad group or Western Europe. The region takes its name from the Alps, the largest mountain ranges of, are considered to make up the states of Central Europe.
After SloveniaThe Republic of Slovenia ( Slovenian: Slovenija is a coastal sub-Alpine country in south central Europe bordering Italy to the west, the Adriatic Sea to the southwest, Croatia to the south and east, Hungary to the northeast, and Austria to the north., the Visegrád group are the wealthiest post-Communist countries in Europe. All of them have relatively developed free market economy and moderate economic growth. The wealthiest country in the group is the Czech Republic, with a GDP PPP of US$15,700.