Moravian-Silesian, Olomouc, South Moravian, Vysočina, Zlín, South Bohemian, Pardubice
First mentioned
822[2][3]
Consolidated
833[4]
Former capital
Brno (1641–1948)[5] Brno, Olomouc (until 1641), Velehrad (9th century)
Major cities
Brno, Ostrava, Olomouc, Zlín, Jihlava
Area
• Total
22,348.87 km2 (8,628.95 sq mi)
Population
• Total
3,200,000[1]
Demonym
Moravian
Time zone
UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)
UTC+2 (CEST)
Primary airport
Brno–Tuřany Airport
Highways
Moravia[a] (Czech: Morava[ˈmorava]ⓘ; German: Mähren) is a historical region in the east of the Czech Republic and one of three historical Czech lands, with Bohemia and Czech Silesia.
The medieval and early modern Margraviate of Moravia was a crown land of the Lands of the Bohemian Crown from 1348 to 1918, an imperial state of the Holy Roman Empire from 1004 to 1806, a crown land of the Austrian Empire from 1804 to 1867, and a part of Austria-Hungary from 1867 to 1918. Moravia was one of the five lands of Czechoslovakia founded in 1918. In 1928 it was merged with Czech Silesia, and then dissolved in 1948 during the abolition of the land system following the communist coup d'état.
Its area of 22,623.41 km2[b] is home to about 3.2 million of the Czech Republic's 10.8 million inhabitants.[1] The people are historically named Moravians, a subgroup of Czechs, the other group being called Bohemians.[11][12] The land takes its name from the Morava river, which runs from its north to south, being its principal watercourse. Moravia's largest city and historical capital is Brno. Before being sacked by the Swedish army during the Thirty Years' War, Olomouc served as the Moravian capital, and it is still the seat of the Archdiocese of Olomouc.[5] Until the expulsions after 1945, significant parts of Moravia were German speaking.
^ ab"Population of Municipalities – 1 January 2023". Czech Statistical Office. 23 May 2023.
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^Bowlus, Charles R. (2009). "Nitra: when did it become a part of the Moravian realm? Evidence in the Frankish sources". Early Medieval Europe. 17 (3): 311–328. doi:10.1111/j.1468-0254.2009.00279.x. S2CID 161655879.
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^"Moravia". The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language (5th ed.). HarperCollins. Retrieved 22 August 2019.
^"Dodatek I. Přehled Moravy a Slezska podle žup". Statistický lexikon obcí v republice Československé. Morava a Slezsko (in Czech). Prague: Státní úřad statistický. 1924. p. 133.
^"Dodatek IV. Moravské enklávy ve Slezsku". Statistický lexikon obcí v republice Československé. Morava a Slezsko (in Czech). Prague: Státní úřad statistický. 1924. p. 138.
^a.s., Economia (18 February 2000). "Jsem Moravan?".
^"Říkáte celé ČR Čechy? Pro Moraváky jste ignorant". 8 February 2010.
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