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Principality of Nitra

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The Principality of Nitra (Nitrianske kniežatstvo, Nitriansko), also known as the Duchy of Nitra, was a West Slavic polity encompassing a group of settlements that developed in the 9th century around Nitra in present-day Slovakia. [1]

44 relations: Adalram, Archaeological culture, Avar Khaganate, Blatnica-Mikulčice horizon, Brno, Byzantine Empire, Carolingian Empire, Chronicle of Fredegar, Conversio Bagoariorum et Carantanorum, Danube, Dietmar I (archbishop of Salzburg), Dušan Třeštík, Duchy (Kingdom of Hungary), Early Slavs, East Francia, Eurasian Steppe, Franks, Germanic peoples, Great Hungarian Plain, Great Moravia, Hron, Ján Steinhübel, Johannes Aventinus, Lombards, Louis the German, March of Pannonia, Material culture, Mojmir I of Moravia, Nitra, Nitra (river), Olomouc, Onomastics, Pannonian Avars, Pannonian Basin, Procopius, Quadi, Radbod (prefect), Richard Marsina, Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Salzburg, Samo, Sclaveni, Slovakia, Váh, West Slavs.

Adalram

Adalram (died 836) was an early 8th-century prelate active in Bavaria.

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Archaeological culture

An archaeological culture is a recurring assemblage of artifacts from a specific time and place that may constitute the material culture remains of a particular past human society.

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Avar Khaganate

The Avar Khaganate was a khanate established in Central Europe, specifically in the Pannonian Basin region, in 567 by the Avars, a nomadic people of uncertain origins and ethno-linguistic affiliation.

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Blatnica-Mikulčice horizon

The Blatnica-Mikulčice horizon is an early medieval archaeological horizon of metalwork.

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Brno

Brno (Brünn) is the second largest city in the Czech Republic by population and area, the largest Moravian city, and the historical capital city of the Margraviate of Moravia.

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Byzantine Empire

The Byzantine Empire, also referred to as the Eastern Roman Empire and Byzantium, was the continuation of the Roman Empire in its eastern provinces during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, when its capital city was Constantinople (modern-day Istanbul, which had been founded as Byzantium).

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Carolingian Empire

The Carolingian Empire (800–888) was a large empire in western and central Europe during the early Middle Ages.

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Chronicle of Fredegar

The Chronicle of Fredegar is the conventional title used for a 7th-century Frankish chronicle that was probably written in Burgundy.

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Conversio Bagoariorum et Carantanorum

The Conversio Bagoariorum et Carantanorum ("The Conversion of the Bavarians and the Carantanians") is a Latin history written in Salzburg in the 870s.

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Danube

The Danube or Donau (known by various names in other languages) is Europe's second longest river, after the Volga.

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Dietmar I (archbishop of Salzburg)

Dietmar I, also Theotmar I, was archbishop of Salzburg from 874 to 907.

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Dušan Třeštík

Dušan Třeštík (1 August 1933 – 23 August 2007) was a Czech historian.

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Duchy (Kingdom of Hungary)

The Duchy or Ducatus (dukátus or hercegség) is the denomination for territories occasionally governed separately by members (dukes) of the Árpád dynasty within the Kingdom of Hungary in the 11th-12th centuries.

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Early Slavs

The early Slavs were a diverse group of tribal societies who lived during the Migration Period and Early Middle Ages (approximately the 5th to the 10th centuries) in Eastern Europe and established the foundations for the Slavic nations through the Slavic states of the High Middle Ages.

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East Francia

East Francia (Latin: Francia orientalis) or the Kingdom of the East Franks (regnum Francorum orientalium) was a precursor of the Holy Roman Empire.

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Eurasian Steppe

The Eurasian Steppe, also called the Great Steppe or the steppes, is the vast steppe ecoregion of Eurasia in the temperate grasslands, savannas, and shrublands biome.

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Franks

The Franks (Franci or gens Francorum) were a collection of Germanic peoples, whose name was first mentioned in 3rd century Roman sources, associated with tribes on the Lower and Middle Rhine in the 3rd century AD, on the edge of the Roman Empire.

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Germanic peoples

The Germanic peoples (also called Teutonic, Suebian, or Gothic in older literature) are an Indo-European ethno-linguistic group of Northern European origin.

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Great Hungarian Plain

The Great Hungarian Plain (also known as Alföld or Great Alföld, Alföld, Nagy Alföld) is a plain occupying the majority of Hungary.

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Great Moravia

Great Moravia (Regnum Marahensium; Μεγάλη Μοραβία, Megálī Moravía; Velká Morava; Veľká Morava; Wielkie Morawy), the Great Moravian Empire, or simply Moravia, was the first major state that was predominantly West Slavic to emerge in the area of Central Europe, chiefly on what is now the territory of the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland (including Silesia), and Hungary.

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Hron

The Hron (Hron, Gran, Garam, Granus) is a long left tributary of the Danube and the second-longest river in Slovakia.

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Ján Steinhübel

Ján Steinhübel (born 21 May 1957) is a Slovak historian who specializes in Great Moravia and in the origins of Kingdom of Hungary.

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Johannes Aventinus

Johann Georg Turmair (or Thurmayr) (4 July 1477 – 9 January 1534), known by the pen name Johannes Aventinus (Latin for "John of Abensberg"), was a Bavarian Renaissance humanist historian and philologist.

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Lombards

The Lombards or Longobards (Langobardi, Longobardi, Longobard (Western)) were a Germanic people who ruled most of the Italian Peninsula from 568 to 774.

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Louis the German

Louis (also Ludwig or Lewis) "the German" (c. 805-876), also known as Louis II, was the first king of East Francia.

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March of Pannonia

The Eastern March (marcha orientalis) or March of Pannonia was a frontier march of the Carolingian Empire, named after the former Roman province of Pannonia.

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Material culture

Material culture is the physical aspect of culture in the objects and architecture that surround people.

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Mojmir I of Moravia

Mojmir I, Moimir I or Moymir I (Latin: Moimarus, Moymarus, Czech and Slovak: Mojmír I.) was the first known ruler of the Moravian Slavs (820s/830s–846) and eponym of the House of Mojmir.

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Nitra

Nitra (also known by other alternative names) is a city in western Slovakia, situated at the foot of Zobor Mountain in the valley of the river Nitra.

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Nitra (river)

The Nitra (Slovak: Nitra, Neutra, Nyitra) is a long river in western Slovakia.

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Olomouc

Olomouc (locally Holomóc or Olomóc; Olmütz; Latin: Olomucium or Iuliomontium; Ołomuniec; Alamóc) is a city in Moravia, in the east of the Czech Republic.

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Onomastics

Onomastics or onomatology is the study of the origin, history, and use of proper names.

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Pannonian Avars

The Pannonian Avars (also known as the Obri in chronicles of Rus, the Abaroi or Varchonitai at the Encyclopedia of Ukraine (Varchonites) or Pseudo-Avars in Byzantine sources) were a group of Eurasian nomads of unknown origin: "...

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Pannonian Basin

The Pannonian Basin, or Carpathian Basin, is a large basin in Central Europe.

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Procopius

Procopius of Caesarea (Προκόπιος ὁ Καισαρεύς Prokopios ho Kaisareus, Procopius Caesariensis; 500 – 554 AD) was a prominent late antique Greek scholar from Palaestina Prima.

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Quadi

The Quadi were a Suebian Germanic tribe who lived approximately in the area of modern Moravia in the time of the Roman Empire.

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Radbod (prefect)

Radbod (833–54) was the East Frankish prefect of the Eastern March (marcha orientalis), the Bavarian frontier towards the Slavs, appointed in 833.

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Richard Marsina

Richard Marsina (4 May 1923, Šahy, Czechoslovakia) is a Slovak historian, one of the founders of modern Slovak histography and a prominent expert on the medieval history of Slovakia.

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Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Salzburg

The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Salzburg (Archidioecesis Salisburgensis) is an archdiocese of the Latin Rite of the Roman Catholic Church in Austria.

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Samo

Samo founded the first recorded political union of Slavic tribes, known as Samo's Empire (realm, kingdom, or tribal union), stretching from Silesia to present-day Slovenia, ruling from 623 until his death in 658.

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Sclaveni

The Sclaveni (in Latin) or (in Greek) were early Slavic tribes that raided, invaded and settled the Balkans in the Early Middle Ages and eventually became known as the ethnogenesis of the South Slavs.

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Slovakia

Slovakia (Slovensko), officially the Slovak Republic (Slovenská republika), is a landlocked country in Central Europe.

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Váh

The Váh (Waag; Vág; Wag) is the longest river within Slovakia.

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West Slavs

The West Slavs are a subgroup of Slavic peoples who speak the West Slavic languages.

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Duchy of Nitra, Nitrava, Nitrian Principality, Nitrian principality, Nitrianske kniežatstvo, Nitriansko, Slovak principality.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principality_of_Nitra

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