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Moravia: Quick Facts

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Major Events

Painting by Antoine-Jean Gros showing Napoleon I and Francis II meeting after the Battle of Austerlitz, with both figures in military dress and soldiers, horses, and smoke in the background.
Battle of Austerlitz

Related Places

Large group of men march across a bridge in Karlsbad, Germany, carrying Sudeten German Party flags, with city buildings in the background, April 12, 1937.
Sudetenland
historical region, Europe
Czech Republic
Czech Republic
country, Europe
Map of former Czechoslovakia showing international boundaries, regional divisions of Bohemia, Moravia, and Slovakia, major cities such as Prague, Brno, Bratislava, and Kosice, and key physical features including the Sudeten Mountains, Carpathian Mountains, and major rivers. Surrounding countries-Germany, Austria, Poland, Hungary, and Ukraine-are labeled.
Czechoslovakia
historical nation, Europe

Key People

Jürgen Ovens: portrait of John Amos Comenius
John Amos Comenius
Czech educator
Reinhard Heydrich
Reinhard Heydrich
German Nazi official
Leoš Janáček
Leoš Janáček
Czech composer
Adler, Guido
Guido Adler
Austrian musicologist
Palacký, František
František Palacký
Czech historian and politician
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Hugo Weisgall
American composer and educator
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Richard, Count Belcredi
prime minister of Austria
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Gusztav Siegmund, Graf Kálnoky von Köröspatak
Austro-Hungarian statesman
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Břetislav I
Bohemian prince
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Joseph Schumpeter
American economist
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Saint Methodius
Christian theologian