Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Great Moravia (Czech: Velká Morava, Slovak: Veľká Morava), also Moravia or Great Moravian Empire, was the first West Slavic state which emerged from "the most powerful tribal area in Central Europe". Its core territories were located on the northern Morava River along the present-day border of the Czech Republic and Slovakia. Theories of a Great Moravia situated in the region of the southern Great Morava River have not widely been accepted. The exact date of the founding of the Moravian state is controversial, but it is supposed that the state building process was completed in the early 830s under Mojmir I (r. 820s/830s–846), who is the first known Moravian ruler.Mojmir and his successor, Rastislav (r. 846–870) initially acknowledged the Carolingian monarchs' suzerainty, but their fights for independence caused a series of armed conflicts with East Francia from the 840s. Moravia reached its largest territorial extent under Svatopluk I (r. 870–894), who was occasionally styled as king in contemporaneous sources. Although his empire's borders cannot exactly be determined, he controlled, in addition to the core territories of Moravia, other neighboring regions (including Bohemia, and parts of present-day Hungary and Poland) for a longer or shorter period during his reign. Separatism and internal conflicts emerging after Svatopluk's death contributed to the fall of Moravia which was overrun by the Hungarians. The exact date of Moravia's collapse is unknown, but it occurred in the period between 902 and 907.Moravia experienced significant cultural development after the 863 arrival of the mission of Saints Cyril and Methodius, initiated by Prince Rastislav, which introduced a system of writing (Glagolitic alphabet) and Slavonic liturgy, the latter eventually formally approved by Pope Adrian II. The Glagolitic script and its successor Cyrillic were disseminated to other Slavic countries (particularly Balkan and Kievan Rus'), charting a new path in their cultural development.. }
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- Great_Moravia abstract "Great Moravia (Czech: Velká Morava, Slovak: Veľká Morava), also Moravia or Great Moravian Empire, was the first West Slavic state which emerged from "the most powerful tribal area in Central Europe". Its core territories were located on the northern Morava River along the present-day border of the Czech Republic and Slovakia. Theories of a Great Moravia situated in the region of the southern Great Morava River have not widely been accepted. The exact date of the founding of the Moravian state is controversial, but it is supposed that the state building process was completed in the early 830s under Mojmir I (r. 820s/830s–846), who is the first known Moravian ruler.Mojmir and his successor, Rastislav (r. 846–870) initially acknowledged the Carolingian monarchs' suzerainty, but their fights for independence caused a series of armed conflicts with East Francia from the 840s. Moravia reached its largest territorial extent under Svatopluk I (r. 870–894), who was occasionally styled as king in contemporaneous sources. Although his empire's borders cannot exactly be determined, he controlled, in addition to the core territories of Moravia, other neighboring regions (including Bohemia, and parts of present-day Hungary and Poland) for a longer or shorter period during his reign. Separatism and internal conflicts emerging after Svatopluk's death contributed to the fall of Moravia which was overrun by the Hungarians. The exact date of Moravia's collapse is unknown, but it occurred in the period between 902 and 907.Moravia experienced significant cultural development after the 863 arrival of the mission of Saints Cyril and Methodius, initiated by Prince Rastislav, which introduced a system of writing (Glagolitic alphabet) and Slavonic liturgy, the latter eventually formally approved by Pope Adrian II. The Glagolitic script and its successor Cyrillic were disseminated to other Slavic countries (particularly Balkan and Kievan Rus'), charting a new path in their cultural development.".