Great Moravian Empire

Moravia
Regnum Marauorum/Marahensium (la) Terra Marauorum/Marahensium (la)
833–c. 906/907
Great Moravia in the late ninth century
Capital		Mikulčice
Languages		Old Slavic
Religion		Slavic paganism Christianity
Government		Principality
kъnendzь or vladyka (King, Ruler), in the international context also translated as Prince or Duke
•	c. 820/830	Mojmír I first
•	846	Rastislav
•	870	Svätopluk I
•	894	Mojmír II last
History
•	Established	833
•	Decline and fall	c. 906/907
Preceded by Succeeded by Samo's Empire Principality of Moravia Principality of Nitra Vistulans Avar Khaganate Duchy of Bohemia Principality of Hungary Civitas Schinesghe Lutici East Francia
Today part of		Slovakia  Czech Republic  Hungary  Poland  Germany  Ukraine  Romania  Serbia  Croatia  Austria  Slovenia

Great Moravia (Latin: regnum Marahensium, Greek: Μεγάλη Μοραβία – megale Moravia, Czech: Velká Morava, Slovak: Veľká Morava, Polish: Wielka Morawia), the Great Moravian Empire, or simply Moravia, was the first major state that was predominantly Slavonic to emerge in the area of Central Europe , chiefly on what is now the territory of the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary. The only formation preceding it in these territories was Samo's Empire known from between 631 and 658 AD. Great Moravia was thus the first joint state of the Slavonic tribes that became later known as Czechs and Slovaks and that later formed Czechoslovakia.

Its core territory is the region now called Moravia in the eastern part of the Czech Republic alongside the Morava River, which gave its name to the kingdom. 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 after the arrival of St. Cyril and St. Methodius in 863 and the creation of the Glagolitic alphabet, the first alphabet dedicated to a Slavonic language, which had significant impact on most Slavic languages and stood at the beginning of the modern Cyrillic alphabet.