- [BOLD:][COLOR:38,38,38,255,255,255]Moravia (Mähren)[:COLOR][:BOLD][COLOR:38,38,38,255,255,255] is a [:COLOR][COLOR:39,79,173,255,255,255]historical country[:COLOR][COLOR:38,38,38,255,255,255] in Central Europe in the east of the [:COLOR][COLOR:71,34,132,255,255,255]Czech Republic[:COLOR][COLOR:38,38,38,255,255,255] and one of the historical [:COLOR][COLOR:39,79,173,255,255,255]Czech lands[:COLOR][COLOR:38,38,38,255,255,255], together with [:COLOR][COLOR:12,0,192,255,255,255]Bohemia[:COLOR][COLOR:38,38,38,255,255,255] and [:COLOR][COLOR:12,0,192,255,255,255]Czech Silesia[:COLOR][COLOR:38,38,38,255,255,255]. It was also one of the 17 former [:COLOR][COLOR:39,79,173,255,255,255]crown lands[:COLOR][COLOR:38,38,38,255,255,255] of the [:COLOR][COLOR:39,79,173,255,255,255]Cisleithanian[:COLOR][COLOR:38,38,38,255,255,255] part of the [:COLOR][COLOR:39,79,173,255,255,255]Austro-Hungarian Empire[:COLOR][COLOR:38,38,38,255,255,255] from 1867 to 1918 and one of the five lands of [:COLOR][COLOR:39,79,173,255,255,255]Czechoslovakia[:COLOR][COLOR:38,38,38,255,255,255] from 1918 to 1928.
It takes its name from the [:COLOR][COLOR:39,79,173,255,255,255]Morava[:COLOR][COLOR:38,38,38,255,255,255] river which rises in the northwest of the region. Moravia's largest city and former capital is [:COLOR][COLOR:12,0,192,255,255,255]Brno[:COLOR][COLOR:38,38,38,255,255,255]; before the [:COLOR][COLOR:39,79,173,255,255,255]Thirty Years' War[:COLOR][COLOR:38,38,38,255,255,255], there were two capitals: [:COLOR][COLOR:12,0,192,255,255,255]Olomouc[:COLOR][COLOR:38,38,38,255,255,255] and Brno.
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