Moravia is a historical region in the east of the Czech Republic and one of three historical Czech lands, with Bohemia and Czech Silesia.
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Moravia is a historical region in the east of the Czech Republic and one of three historical Czech lands, with Bohemia and Czech Silesia.
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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.
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Moravia had been home of a large German-speaking population until their expulsion in 1945.
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Geologically, Moravia covers a transitive area between the Bohemian Massif and the Carpathians, and between the Danube basin and the North European Plain .
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The highest mountains of Moravia are situated on its northern border in Hruby Jesenik, the highest peak is Praded .
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Fluvial system of Moravia is very cohesive, as the region border is similar to the watershed of the Morava river, and thus almost the entire area is drained exclusively by a single stream.
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Small peripheral parts of Moravia belong to the catchment area of Elbe, Vah and especially Oder .
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Louis the German invaded Moravia and replaced Mojmir I with his nephew Rastiz who became St Rastislav.
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Great Moravia reached its greatest territorial extent in the 890s under Svatopluk I At this time, the empire encompassed the territory of the present-day Czech Republic and Slovakia, the western part of present Hungary, as well as Lusatia in present-day Germany and Silesia and the upper Vistula basin in southern Poland.
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In 1055, he decreed that Bohemia and Moravia would be inherited together by primogeniture, although he provided that his younger sons should govern parts of Moravia as vassals to his oldest son.
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Moravia again reunited all Czech lands into one-man ruled state.
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Moravia, like Bohemia, was a Habsburg possession until the end of World War I In 1573 the Jesuit University of Olomouc was established; this was the first university in Moravia.
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Moravia became a separate crown land of Austria again in 1849, and then became part of Cisleithanian Austria-Hungary after 1867.
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In 1928, Moravia was merged into Moravia-Silesia, one of four lands of Czechoslovakia, together with Bohemia, Slovakia and Subcarpathian Rus.
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Moravia historically had a large minority of ethnic Germans, some of whom had arrived as early as the 13th century at the behest of the Premyslid dynasty.
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Moravia can be divided on dialectal and lore basis into several ethnographic regions of comparable significance.
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