The ancestors of the Slovaks and Moravians were later united in Great Moravia between 833 and 907.

Petr Chelčický's teachings included ideas later adopted by the Moravians, Anabaptists, Quakers, and Baptists.

In 1761, missionaries from the German Moravians ( also known as the Renewed Church of the United Brethren ), set out from Bethlehem, Pennsylvania to set up a mission in the Tuscarawas Valley.

Another was the Moravians led by Count Zinzendorf who adopted a form consisting of a simple sharing of a simple meal, and then testimonies or a devotional address were given and letters from missionaries read.

As the Byzantine missionaries enjoyed Rastislav's protection, Louis the German dispatched Bishop Solomon of Constance to Rome where he described how the diocese of Passau had been " fragmented and brought to ruin " by the defection of the Moravians.

The Moravians were renowned for high standards of education and there were day and boarding schools for both boys and girls for some time.

The Moravians had considered schools secondary in importance only to churches.

It is one of the relatively few Sundays some Reformed denominations may offer the communion meal, and is one of the days of the year specially appointed among Moravians for the celebration of their Love Feasts.

In 868, at Metz they agreed definitely to a partition of Lotharingia ; but when Lothair II died in 869, Louis the German was lying seriously ill, and his armies were engaged with the Moravians.

Although Innu have been only in Sheshatshiu since fur trading posts were established by the Hudson's Bay Company in Northwest River in the mid-1700s and only in Davis Inlet / Natuashish since the Moravians set up along the Inuit Coast in 1771, Newfoundland and Labrador Premier Danny Williams struck a deal on September 26, 2008, with Labrador's Innu to permit construction of a hydroelectric megaproject to proceed on the proposed Lower Churchill site.

For a century, only Moravians were permitted to live in Lititz.

The Moravians were a religious group whose formal name was the “ Unitas Fratrum ” or Unity of the Brethren.

Moravians worldwide were selling possessions and even some other entire communities to pay off debts incurred years earlier by Count von Zinzendorf, who heavily mortgaged his lands to give them opportunity back in Germany.

Many of these immigrants were Scots-Irish, Germans from the Rhineland-Palatinate area, and Moravians.

After the end of World War II, and following the Beneš decrees, these German speaking Moravians were evicted ; it is estimated that hundreds died on the arduous trek to Austria.

Moravians were devoted to missionary work, especially among African slaves and Native Americans ; in 1763, they published a collection of hymns in the Delaware language.

The Moravians were allowed to establish a station at Neu-Herrnhut ( which became the nucleus of modern Nuuk, Greenland's capital ) and in time a string of missions along the island's west coast.

During the main years of German emigration to Pennsylvania in the mid-18th century, most of the emigrants were Lutherans, Reformed, or members of small sects — Mennonites, Dunkers, Schwenkfelders, Moravians, and some German Baptist groups.

Among Protestants, Anglicans, Baptists, Puritans, Presbyterians, Lutherans, Quaker, and Moravians were the first to settle to the US, spreading their faith in the new country.

Moravians were devoted to missionary work, especially among African slaves and Native Americans ; in 1763, they published a collection of hymns in the Delaware language.

This sentimental, anti-intellectual form of pietism is seen in the thought and teaching of Zinzendorf, founder of the Moravians ; but more intellectually rigorous forms of pietism are seen in the teachings of John Wesley, which were themselves influenced by Zinzendorf, and in the teachings of American preachers Jonathan Edwards, who restored to pietism Gerson's focus on obedience and borrowed from early church teachers Origen and Gregory of Nyssa the notion that humans yearn for God, and John Woolman, who combined a mystical view of the world with a deep concern for social issues ; like Wesley, Woolman was influenced by Jakob Boehme, William Law and The Imitation of Christ.

In Virginia, Maryland and Delaware, Quakers and Moravians were influential in persuading slaveholders to free their slaves.

The first European settlers in the area were Moravians, a Christian religious group from Germany that settled in the Thirteen Colonies seeking freedom of religion and to evangelize among the Native Americans.

The first Europeans to have contact with local Inuit were Moravians.

They were forced by the Electoral Saxon government to emigrate to Pennsylvania, and Zinzendorf sent 2 Moravians to accompany them in 1734 – 35, in order to scout out the mission possibilities in America.

Later, colonies were also founded in North Carolina, where Moravians led by Bishop August Gottlieb Spangenberg purchased 98, 985 acres ( 400. 58 km2 ) from John Carteret, 2nd Earl Granville.

In the 1980s there were discussions in England by which an agreement was created that would have created full communion between the Moravians, Presbyterians, Methodists, and the Church of England.

Aribo never reconciled with Arnulf after the Wilhelimner War and his contacts with the Moravians were kept secure.

The Moravians were returning to their homeland with the daughter of a Bohemian dux (" duke "), presumably to marry an unidentified Moravian magnate.

A letter written by the margrave soon announced that the legates were returning from Svatopluk and the Moravians who had agreed " to give themselves in friendship ".

Sarah was well educated for a woman of her time and place, attending the exclusive Moravians ' " female academy " at Salem, North Carolina.

The oldest Dutch archives of the Moravians are kept at the Utrecht Archival Centre at Utrecht.

When the western flank of the Mongols plundered Polish cities, a European alliance between the Poles, the Moravians, the Christian military orders of the Hospitallers, Teutonic Knights and the Templars assembled sufficient forces to halt, although briefly the Mongol advance at Legnica.

Although supporters defended their work, at the end of 1744, the colonial government based at Poughkeepsie expelled the Moravians from New York.

The Moravians in Germany, whose central settlement remains at Herrnhut, are highly active in education and social work.

A short visit to the Moravians at Herrnhut followed ; then she went, via Dresden, to Karlsruhe, to sit at the feet of Heinrich Jung-Stilling, the high priest of occultist pietism, whose influence was supreme at the court of Baden and infected those of Stockholm and St. Petersburg.

Examples of cornetts ( and trombones ) used by the American Moravians are in the Moravian Museum, Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

In 1801 the Moravians established a mission to the Cherokee Nation in present day Murray County Georgia that remained until the forced removal of the Cherokees to Oklahoma, and remained active there through the end of the American Civil War in 1865.

American Universalism developed from the influence of various Pietist and Anabaptist movements in Europe, including Quakers, Moravians, Methodists, Lutherans, Schwenkfelders, Schwarzenau Brethren, and others.

Among Green's other outdoor symphonic dramas are Faith of Our Fathers, Wilderness Road, The Lone Star, The Common Glory, The Founders, Trumpet in the Land, which tells the story of the American massacre of Native American Moravians in Gnadenhutten, Ohio, during the American Revolution, Cross and Sword, the state play of Florida, and The Stephen Foster Story which continues to be played each summer in Bardstown, Kentucky.

The Moravians built a chapel for the Mohican people in 1743.

He was given in Virginia as a place for his fellow Moravians to settle.

Members of the Evangelical Brotherhood, the Dutch name for the Moravians, settled in Zeist in 1746, building for their community an impressive array of 18th century Classisist houses planned around two squares.

The area was originally settled by members of the Moravian Church in 1753, and Moravians owned the waterfall for many years ( the waterfall is named after the church ).

Ignoring the complaints of the German hierarchy, John sanctioned the consecration of a metropolitan and three bishops for the Church of the Moravians.

Located in the historic Moravian community of Old Salem, Salem College was originally a girls ' school established by the Moravians, who believed strongly in equal education for men and women.

Among his observations of the incident was that " one Nathan Rollins & brother had had a father & uncle killed took the lead in murdering the Indians, ...& Nathan Rollins had tomahawked nineteen of the poor Moravians, & after it was over he sat down & cried, & said it was no satisfaction for the loss of his father & uncle after all ".

In the papers collection Hlasowé o potřebě jednoty spisowného jazyka pro Čechy, Morawany a Slowáky (" Voices on the necessity of a united standard language for the Bohemians, Moravians and Slovaks ") published by Ján Kollár in 1846, Šafárik moderately criticized Ľudovít Štúr's introduction of a new Slovak standard language ( 1843 ) that replaced the previously used Lutheran standard which was closer to the Czech language ( the Slovak Catholics used a different standard ).

Menumorut's name ( as he was called by the Hungarians because he had concubines ) is composed of two parts: its first part ( menu ) may have originated either from the Hungarian word for stallion ( as the anonymous writer of the Gesta suggests ) or from the Bulgar-Turkic word meaning “ great ” ( men ); his name ’ s second part ( morut ) is the ancient Hungarian name of the Moravians.

Friedensthal Moravian Church Christiansted, United States Virgin Islands | Christiansted, St Croix, USVI founded in 1755The Moravians continue their long tradition of missionary work, for example in the Caribbean, where the Jamaican Moravian Church has begun work in Cuba and in West Africa where the Moravian Church in Tanzania has missions in Zaire and Uganda.

Franks, Moravians and Magyars: The Struggle for the Middle Danube, 788 – 907.

Having met with no success, he then asked for " teachers " in Constantinople, in order to educate local Moravians as priests.

Franks, Moravians and Magyars: The Struggle for the Middle Danube, 788 – 907.

Jan Amos Comenius wrote in 1620: " Moravians of the mountains around Vsetín, called Wallachians, are a warlike people … they refused to accept the Habsburg yoke and for three whole years defended their freedom with the sword ".

Talbot published single sermons ( 1691 – 1717 ), his speech in the Lords on the Sacheverell case ( 1710 ), two charges ( 1712 – 17 ), and a circular to the Salisbury clergy directing collections for Moravians ( 1716 ).