Moravia

"Moravia (en checo y eslovaco: Morava) es una de las tres regiones históricas que conforman la República Checa, junto con Bohemia y la Silesia checa. Limita al oeste con Bohemia, al sur con Austria (estado de Baja Austria), al sureste, este y noreste con las regiones eslovacas de Trnava, Trenín y ilina, respectivamente; al noreste y norte con la Silesia checa, y al norte con la Silesia polaca. Su nombre viene del río Morava, cerca del cual se estableció un grupo de eslavos poco antes del año 600. Los habitantes de Moravia hablan diversos dialectos del checo. Actualmente Moravia está dividida en las regiones de Moravia Meridional, Zlín, y parte de las regiones de Moravia-Silesia, Olomouc, Pardubice, Vysoina y Bohemia Meridional. Su capital y principal ciudad es Brno."

"Moravia (Czech: Morava; German: ; Polish: Morawy; Latin: Moravia) is a historical country in the Czech Republic (forming its eastern part) and one of the historical Czech lands, together with Bohemia and Czech Silesia. The medieval and early modern Margraviate of Moravia was a crown land of the Lands of the Bohemian Crown (from 1348 to 1918), an imperial state of Holy Roman Empire (1004 to 1806), later a crown land of the Austrian Empire (1804 to 1867) and briefly also one of 17 former crown lands of the Cisleithanian part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire from 1867 to 1918. During the early 20th century, Moravia was one of the five lands of Czechoslovakia from 1918 to 1928, then it was merged with Czech Silesia, and eventually dissolved by abolition of the land system in 1949. Moravia has an area of over 22 348,87 km2 and about 3 million inhabitants, which is roughly 2/7 or 30 % of the whole Czech Republic. The statistics from 1921 states, that the whole area of Moravia including the enclaves in Silesia covers 22623,41 km2. The people are historically named Moravians, a subgroup of Czechs (as understood by Czechs). The land takes its name from the Morava river, which rises in the northern tip of the region and flows southward to the opposite end, being its major stream. Moravia's largest city and historical capital is Brno, however before being sacked by the Swedish army during the Thirty Years' War, Olomouc was another capital. Though officially abolished by an administrative reform in 1949, Moravia is still commonly acknowledged as a specific land in the Czech Republic. Moravian people are considerably aware of their Moravian identity and there is some rivalry between them and the Czechs from Bohemia."