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The Great Moravian Empire
Once the Franks had defeated the Avars, two separate Slavic communities
began to emerge on either side of the White Carpathian mountain
range. They were the principalities of Moravia and Nitra.
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Prince Pribina of Nitra, ruled over
a growing Slavic noble class in Western and Central Slovakia.
He was astute enough to recognize the political importance of
religion in the area, with respect to the neighboring Christian
Frankish and Bavarian Kingdoms, and so it was he who first introduced
Christianity to the Slavs, in 828. |
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the West of the White Carpathians, Prince Mojmir ruled
over an area of what is today Moravia, as well as parts
of Western Slovakia. Mojmir wanted to expand his principality
further, and so in 833 he attacked Nitra, driving Pribina
out of the region, and thus uniting the two Slavic principalities.
Mojmir I became the first Ruler of the Principality
of Mojmir, as it was known at that time. It was one
hundred years later when it was first called the Great
Moravian Empire, by the Byzantine Emperor Constantine
VII.
Great Moravian Empire continued >>
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