Moravians
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| Total population | |
|---|---|
| (above 525,000 (2011)) | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
 Czech Republic
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521,801 (2011) |
 Slovakia
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3,286 (2011) |
| Languages | |
| Czech (Moravian dialects), Silesian, Slovak | |
| Religion | |
| Roman Catholicism, Irreligion, Protestantism, Orthodox Christianity | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Czechs, Silesians, Poles, Slovaks and other West Slavs | |
Moravians (Czech: Moravané or colloquially Moraváci) are a West Slavic ethnographic group from the Moravia region of the Czech Republic, who speak the Moravian dialects of the Czech language or Common Czech or a mixed form of both. Along with the Silesians of the Czech Republic, a part of the population to identify ethnically as Moravian has registered in Czech censa since 1991. In 2011, the figure has fluctuated and in the 2011 census, 4.9% of the Czech population declared Moravian. Smaller pockets of persons declaring Moravian ethnicity are also native to neighbouring Slovakia. The majority from Moravia have traditionally declared Czech.
A certain ambiguity in the Czech language derives from the fact that it only distinguishes between Čechy (Bohemia) and Česká republika (Czech republic), but the corresponding adjective český and noun designating an inhabitant and/or a member of a nation Čech can be related to either of the two (the adjective bohémský and the noun bohém have only the "socially unconventional person" meaning).
The Moravians (Old Slavic self-designation Moravljane,Slovak: Moravania, Czech: Moravané) were a West Slavic tribe in the Early Middle Ages. Although it is not known exactly when the Moravian tribe was founded, Czech historian Dušan Třeštík claimed the tribe was formed between the turn of the 6th century to the 7th century, around the same time as the other Slavic tribes.
In the 9th century Moravians settled mainly around the historic Region of Moravia and Western Slovakia, but also in parts of central-southern Poland, Lower Austria (up to the Danube) and Upper Hungary. The first known mention of the Moravians was in the Annales Regni Francorum in 822 AD. The tribe was located by the Bavarian Geographer between the tribe of the Bohemians and the tribe of the Bulgarians.
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