Great Moravia

Great Moravia was a Slavic state that existed in Central Europe and lasted just over fifty years in the 9th century.[2] It was a vassal state of the Germanic Frankish kingdom and paid an annual tribute to it.[3] There is some controversy as to the actual location of its core territory. According to the greater weight of scholars, its core area lay on both sides of the Morava river, the territory of today's western Slovakia and in Moravia and Bohemia (today's Czech Republic),[4] but the entity may have also extended[when?] into what are today parts of Hungary, Poland, Austria, Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia, Romania, Ukraine and Germany.[5][6][7][page needed][8][page needed] Alternative theories state that, the core territory of Great Moravia was situated South of the Danube river, in Slavonia (today's Croatia), or in the southern parts of the Carpathian Basin.[9] [10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17] According to Slovak historian Richard Marsina, Great Moravia was inhabited by the ancestors of modern Moravians and Slovaks, though other historians state that the indigenous Slavs have died out[18] or they have been assimilated by Hungarians (in the territory of Kingdom of Hungary).[18] There is no continuity in politics, culture, or written language between this early Slavic polity and the modern Slovak nation.[19] However, many Slovak see the basis of Slovak nation in the cultural heritage of Great Moravia and this is being referred to in the modern Slovak constitution.[20] Great Moravia played a significant role in the development of Slovak nationalism.[21]

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