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Great Moravia

Also known as Great Moravian Empire

9th-century Slavic state

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Great Moravia was a powerful Slavic state that existed in Central Europe during the 9th century, serving as an important political and cultural center for early Slavic peoples. It matters historically because it was one of the first major organized Slavic kingdoms and played a significant role in the early development of Eastern European civilization.

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Encyclopedic overview

Great Moravia, or simply Moravia, was the first major state that was predominantly West Slavic to emerge in the area of Central Europe, possibly including territories which are today part of the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Austria, Germany, Poland, Romania, Croatia, Serbia, Ukraine and Slovenia. The formations preceding it in these territories were Samo's tribal union (631–658) and the Pannonian Avar state (567–822).

Centered on the Morava River – which gave the realm its name – the core encompassed today’s Moravia in the eastern Czech Republic and adjacent western Slovakia. The kingdom saw the rise of the first-ever Slavic literary culture in the Old Church Slavonic language as well as the expansion of Christianity, first via missionaries from East Francia, and later after the arrival of Saints Cyril and Methodius in 863 and the creation of the Glagolitic alphabet, the first alphabet dedicated to a Slavic language. Glagolitic was subsequently replaced by the Cyrillic alphabet created in the First Bulgarian Empire.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Great Moravia” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.