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.

' The Moravians and later Congregationalist missionaries ran boarding schools, and a select few students were educated at the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions school in Connecticut.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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 ".

The Moravians organized bands in towns where they settled, and they offered both secular and religious music selections.

The Moravians were a religious group of German origin who had settled here in 1746.

On Christmas Eve in 1741, David Nitschmann and Count Nicolaus von Zinzendorf, leading a small group of Moravians, founded the mission community of Bethlehem along the banks of the Monocacy Creek by the Lehigh River in the colony of Pennsylvania.

As such, diverse groups such as Adventists, Anabaptists, Baptists, Charismatics, Congregationalists, Evangelicals, Holiness churches, Lutherans, Methodists, Moravians, Pentecostals, Presbyterians, Reformed, and Unitarians ( depending on one's classification scheme ) are all a part of the same family, and with further doctrinal variations within each group.

A third group of Lenape, many of them converted Christian Munsees, lived in several mission villages run by Moravians.

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.

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.

These followers continued to practice his views in Moravia and Bohemia in what is now the Czech Republic, hence the common name “ The Moravians ”.

After Uwatie converted to Christianity with the Moravians, he took the name of David Uwatie ; he and Susanna renamed Degataga as Isaac.

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.

Thachulf, Duke of Thuringia, then undertook campaigns against the Bohemians, Moravians, and other tribes, but was not very successful in freeing his shores from the ravages of the Vikings.

Located adjacent to the Moravian Church on of land, Linden Hall School was founded by the Moravians in 1746, a decade before the borough was incorporated.

Although the wilderness of Carbon County was quite treacherous, the Moravians traveled in the wilds of Carbon County undaunted.

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

On the edge of this lake was an Indian village where the Moravians early established a mission that did great work among the Indians.

To the Moravians it was known as " Gnadensee ," the Lake of Grace.

Prior to the arrival of the Moravians, there was no distinct town, but several families farmed on Jenny Jump Mountain, to the south of Hope, in surrounding area and on John Samuel Green, Jr .’ s farm in the center of what is now the Village.

After almost 40 years of the Moravian “ experiment ” in Hope, the community was sold and almost all of the Moravians returned to Bethlehem or Nazareth, Pennsylvania.

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 ).

It was established as a mission to the Lenape by Moravians from Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, lower on the Lehigh River.

The Austrian army, called Kaiserlich-königliche Armee ( Imperial and Royal Army ), was composed of multinational troops from across the Empire, including proper Austrians, Bohemians, Moravians, Hungarians, Romanians, Croatians, Poles and other ethnic groups, with regiments speaking various languages.

John Wesley was influenced significantly by Moravians ( e. g., Zinzendorf, Peter Boehler ) and Pietists connected to Francke and Halle Pietism.

Moravians also had a tradition of secular art music that included the famed composer Johann Friedrich Peter, who was a German born in Holland who emigrated to Bethlehem in 1770.

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.

) Although there was influence by Pietism and the Moravians on the founders of the Church of the United Brethren in Christ, there is no direct organizational link.

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

Moravians had accepted the hereditary right of the Austrian Habsburgs to rule and thus escaped the intense struggle between native estates and the Habsburg monarchy that was to characterize Bohemian history.

Moravians also had a tradition of secular art music that included the famed composer Johann Friedrich Peter, who was a German born in Holland who emigrated to Bethlehem in 1770.

Similarly well-versed in the mystic tradition was the German Johann Arndt, who, along with the English Puritans, influenced such continental Pietists as Philipp Jakob Spener, Gottfried Arnold, Nicholas Ludwig von Zinzendorf of the Moravians, and the hymnodist Gerhard Tersteegen.

The river was also called " Tiohujodha " by the Moravians.