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feat: add Slovakia#64

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feat: add Slovakia#64
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@zaggino zaggino commented Apr 27, 2026

I'm a big fan of castles (got actually married on one and did a few roadtrips to visit many of them), so here's some data on the ones from Slovakia.

Honest disclaimer:

I did use AI to collect and translate this data from multiple Slovakian websites (I don't really think any sane person would do it manually), and I've gone through the list manually and read/verified the outputs, checked that the descriptions are accurate and not hallucinations, and also verified some coordinates randomly.

This https://www.hrady-zamky.sk/ and this https://lovechradov.sk/ websites were mostly used to provide the initial data with further enrichment from Wikipedia.

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Thanks for opening this PR, I appreciate it! 🙌🏻 That's quite a lot of castles. 😅

I'm going to check some as well tomorrow, but generally the information looks good.

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owenvoke commented May 1, 2026

While checking your file, I noticed that built was incorrectly marked as not-required in the schema (when it should have been). I've now updated that in main, which means that many of the entries aren't valid anymore. 🙃 I'm looking at validating them to try and add the centuries where applicable.

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zaggino commented May 1, 2026

No worries, I can try iterating on this next week when I have some free time.

`data/sk.json` failed schema validation: 167 of 210 entries lacked the
required `built` field. Researched each via web sources and either
populated `built` with a confident date (129 entries) or removed the
entry where no credible source could establish one (38 entries).
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zaggino commented May 2, 2026

@owenvoke hey, updated:

8 parallel Sonnet research agents web-searched build dates for the 167 entries.
Decisions:
- 129 filled with confident dates (Wikipedia, hrady-zamky.sk, medievalheritage.eu, official castle sites, etc.)
- 38 removed where no credible date was found (mostly obscure hilltop sites and undated Hrádok ruins)

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