Hirsch was rabbi in Oldenburg, Emden, was subsequently appointed chief rabbi of Moravia, and from 1851 until his death led the secessionist Orthodox community in Frankfurt am Main.

In 1846 Hirsch was called to the rabbinate of Nikolsburg in Moravia, and in 1847 he became chief rabbi of Moravia and Austrian Silesia.

In Austria Samson Hirsch held the office for the province of Moravia from 1847 to 1851.

As early as 880, Arnulf had designs on Great Moravia, and had the Frankish bishop Wiching of Nitra interfere with the missionary activities of Methodius, with the aim of preventing any potential for creating a unified Moravian nation.

However, in his attempts to conquer Moravia, in 899 Arnulf invited across the Magyars who had settled in Pannonia, and with their help he imposed a measure of control on Moravia.

Of equal alarm was Francis II Rákóczi's revolt which, by the end of the year, had reached as far as Moravia and Lower Austria.

The largest remaining communities of the Brethren were located in Lissa ( Leszno ) in Poland, which had historically strong ties with the Czechs, and in small, isolated groups in Moravia.

Their land, which had probably been part of Great Moravia, and Bohemia, was annexed by Mieszko I some time in late 10th century.

By Elizabeth he had four children: David II, John ( died in childhood ), Matilda ( who married Thomas Isaac and died at Aberdeen 20 July 1353 ), and Margaret ( who married William de Moravia, 5th Earl of Sutherland in 1345 ).

It is a common misconception that Cyril and Methodius were the first to bring Christianity to Moravia, but the letter from Rastislav to Michael III states clearly that Rastislav's people " had already rejected paganism and adhere to the Christian law.

Their evangelizing mission in Moravia had by this time become the focus of a dispute with Theotmar, the Archbishop of Salzburg and bishop of Passau, who claimed ecclesiastical control of the same territory and wished to see it use the Latin liturgy exclusively.

Methodius now continued the work among the Slavs alone ; not at first in Great Moravia, but in Pannonia ( in the Balaton Principality ), owing to the political circumstances of the former country, where Rastislav had been taken captive by his nephew Svatopluk, then delivered over to Carloman, and condemned in a diet of the empire at the end of 870.

Upon the death of his elder brother Spytihněv in 915, Vratislaus became Bohemian duke at a time when his duchy had already distanced itself from the political and cultural influence of Great Moravia and fallen under East Frankish, especially Bavarian influence.

The Annales Fuldenses report that in the year 900 the Bavarians had attacked Moravia in alliance with the Bohemians.

After the fall of Great Moravia, the rulers of the Bohemian duchy had to deal both with continuous raids by the Magyars and the forces of the Saxon duke and East Frankish king Henry the Fowler, who had started several eastern campaigns into the adjacent lands of the Polabian Slavs, homeland of Wenceslaus ' mother.

After the death of King Rupert of Germany in 1410, Sigismund – ignoring the claims of his half-brother Wenceslaus – was elected as successor by three of the electors on 10 September 1410, but he was opposed by his cousin Jobst of Moravia, who had been elected by four electors in a different election on 1 October.

At the time, Jobst of Moravia ruled Brandenburg and thus was one of the prince-electors who had the right to vote for the new emperor.

This Prince of Liechtenstein had wide landholdings in Austria, Bohemia and Moravia, but none of his lands were held directly from the Emperor.

Following some inspired matchmaking by his Viennese colleagues, in 1919 Jones met and married Katherine Jokl, a Jewish economics graduate from Moravia, who had been at school in Vienna with Freud ’ s daughters.

His father, who had graduated from Charles University in Prague, acted as tutor to the noble Brethon family in Zlín, eastern Moravia.

The letter also reveals that Hussite immigrants who had undergone persecutions in Bohemia, Moravia, or Hungary were settled in the town and granted privileges by Alexander the Good.

Since 24 September 1941, SS-Obergruppenführer and General of Police Reinhard Heydrich had been Acting Reichsprotektor of the Nazi Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia.

Karl Hermann Frank, Secretary of State for the Nazi Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, reported from Berlin that the Führer had commanded the following concerning any village found to have harboured Heydrich's killers:

After the defeat of the Nazis in the European Theatre of World War II and the collapse of Nazi Germany and the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, Albright and family moved back to Prague, where they were given a luxurious apartment in the Hradcany district ( which later caused controversy, as it had belonged to an ethnic German Bohemian industrialist family forced out by the Beneš decrees – see " Controversies ").

After the death of Ruprecht in 1410, his succession at first proved difficult, as both Wenceslaus ' cousin Jobst of Moravia and Wenceslaus ' brother Sigismund of Hungary were elected King of Germany.

Although the definition and identification of the inhabitants of Great Moravia proved to be politically imperative and difficult, additionally historical records are anything else but precise in this question, the current consensus among most of the Slovak historians is that Slovaks exist as a people with consciousness of their national identity since the 9th or 10th century, therefore we can identify the Slavic inhabitants living on the territory of this realm as Slovaks.

The Slavs of Great Moravia ( present-day Slovakia and Moravia ), Hungary, Slovenia and Slavonia were called Slověne at that time, which gives rise to the name Slovenish for the alphabet.

At this time, several Polish territorial acquisitions of his father were lost: Upper Lusatia ( also known as Milsko ), part of Lower Lusatia, Red Ruthenia, western and central part of Upper Hungary ( now Slovakia ) and probably Moravia.

At the same time, at the head of ten legions, Mieszko went to Moravia and planned an allied attack together with Bohemia against the Emperor.

At the time of Svatopluk I and King Arnulf of Carinthia in the 9th century, Silesia was a part of Greater Moravia ; after its destruction in the early 10th century, it was conquered by Bohemia.

After spending some time in jail, he was expelled from Great Moravia and in 885 or 886 reached the borders of the Bulgarian Empire together with Naum of Preslav, Angelarius, and possibly Gorazd ( according to other sources, Gorazd was already dead by that time ).

Oskar Schindler ( 28 April 1908 – 9 October 1974 ) was an ethnic German industrialist born in Moravia, which was that time part of Austria-Hungary.

He died in 9 December 1437 at Znojmo (), Moravia ( now Czech Republic ), and as ordered in life, he was buried at Nagyvárad, Hungary ( today Oradea, Romania ), next to the tomb of the king Saint Ladislaus I of Hungary, who was the ideal of the perfect monarch, warrior and Christian for that time and was deeply venerated by Sigismund.

But within a few months Vienna again appeared unsafe, and in September the court left again, this time for Olmütz in Moravia.

Born in Carniola, which at the time was one of the Habsburg lands in the Holy Roman Empire, he lived and worked in Moravia and Bohemia during the last decade of his life.

The battle took place near Austerlitz ( Slavkov u Brna ) about 10 km ( 6 mi ) south-east of Brno in Moravia, at that time in the Austrian Empire ( present day Czech Republic ).

The first recorded mention of the terms chest voice and head voice was around the 13th century, when it was distinguished from the " throat voice " ( pectoris, guttoris, capitis — at this time it is likely that head voice referred to the falsetto register ) by the writers Johannes de Garlandia and Jerome of Moravia.

The novel was criticized at the time of its first publication by some literary critics for its straightforward " old fashioned " realism, a type of Stendhalian or Tolstoyan realism that particularly irritated neo-realists such as Elio Vittorini and Alberto Moravia.

Mawer underlines that, at the time Nägeli was writing to the friar from Moravia, Nägeli " must have been preparing his great work entitled A mechanico-physiological theory of organic evolution ( published in 1884, the year of Mendel's death ) in which he proposes the concept of the ' idioplasm ' as the hypothetical transmitter of inherited characters ".

Free for a time from foreign threat, the Hussites invaded Moravia, where a large part of the population favoured their creed ; but, paralysed again by dissensions, they soon returned to Bohemia.

During the time of nazi German occupation from 1939 to 1945, Zlín was part of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia.

Among these were folk influences from Moravia and Slovakia, which at that time were considered culturally backward in the cosmopolitan Czech capital.

The settlements of the later Moravian and Nitrian principalities ( see Great Moravia ) are often identical with those from the time of Samo's Empire.

Some of the early Old Church Slavonic texts contain elements of the language of the Slavic inhabitants of Great Moravia and Pannonia ( which were called Sloviene by Slavic texts at that time ).