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Margraviate of Moravia

Margraviate of Moravia
Markrabství moravské (cs)
Markgrafschaft Mähren (de)
Crown land of the Bohemian Crown
(1348–1918)

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)

1182–1918
Flag Coat of arms
Margraviate of Moravia and the Lands of the Bohemian Crown within the Holy Roman Empire (1618)
Margraviate of Moravia (1893)
Capital Olomouc (1182-1641)
Brno (1641-1918)
Languages Moravian dialects
Czech
Polish
German
Religion Roman Catholic,
Utraquist, Lutheran,
Moravian Brethren
Government Margraviate
Margrave
 •  1182–1191 (first) Conrad II of Bohemia
 •  1916–1918 (last) Charles I of Austria
Legislature Provincial Diet
History
 •  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)
Preceded by
Succeeded by
Duchy of Bohemia
First Czechoslovak Republic

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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