Margrave of Moravia
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Markrabství moravské (cs) Markgrafschaft Mähren (de) |
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Crown land of the Bohemian Crown (1348–1918) Imperial State of the Holy Roman Empire (1198–1806) |
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.svg) Margraviate of Moravia and the Lands of the Bohemian Crown within the Holy Roman Empire (1618)
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 Margraviate of Moravia (1893)
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| Capital |
Olomouc (1182–1641) Brno (1641–1918) |
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| Languages |
Moravian dialects of Czech Polish German |
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| Religion |
Roman Catholic, Utraquist, Lutheran, Moravian Brethren, Anabaptist |
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| Government | Margraviate | |||||||||
| Margrave | ||||||||||
| • | 1182–1191 (first) | Conrad II of Bohemia | ||||||||
| • | 1916–1918 (last) | Charles I of Austria | ||||||||
| Legislature | Provincial Diet | |||||||||
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| • | Established | 1182 | ||||||||
| • | Disestablished | 1918 | ||||||||
| Area | ||||||||||
| • | 1918 | 22,222 km² (8,580 sq mi) | ||||||||
| Population | ||||||||||
| • | 1918 est. | 2,662,000 | ||||||||
| Density | 119.8 /km² (310.3 /sq mi) | |||||||||
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Imperial State of the Holy Roman Empire (1198–1806)
Crown land of the Habsburg Monarchy (1526–1804), of the Austrian Empire (1804–67), and of the Cisleithanian part of Austria-Hungary (1867–1918)
The Margraviate of Moravia (Czech: Markrabství moravské; German: Markgrafschaft Mähren) or March of Moravia was a marcher state existing from 1182 to 1918 and one of the lands of the Bohemian Crown. It was officially administrated by a margrave in cooperation with a provincial diet. It was variously a de facto independent state, and also subject to the Duchy, later the Kingdom of Bohemia. It comprised the region called Moravia within the modern Czech Republic.
The Margraviate lay east of Bohemia proper, with an area about half that region’s size. In the north, the Sudeten Mountains, which extend to the Moravian Gate, formed the border with the Polish Duchy of Silesia, incorporated as a Bohemian crown land upon the 1335 Treaty of Trentschin. In the east and southeast, the western Carpathian Mountains separated it from present-day Slovakia. In the south, the winding Thaya River marked the border with the Duchy of Austria.
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