Greater Moravia 1241-1526






Slovakia 906-1241



The Greater Moravian Empire was crushed by Magyar raids, with her eastern regions - western Slovakia - included in the Magyar Khanate (906). In 1001, Duke Geza of Hungary had himself baptized and crowned King Stephen I.; with him the entire Kingdom, including modern Slovakia, had to accept christianity. Politically, Hungary was divided in counties (comitati), western and central Slovakia belonging to the Comitatus of Nitra. Ecclesiastically, Slovakia came under the Archdiocesis of Esztergom (Gran) in Hungary, the diocesis of Nitra suffragan to Esztergom.
With christianity, Hungary opened up to western and central European influence. The concept of feudalism was introduced, and the peasantry reduced to the status of serfdom, a process which was concluded around 1200. Royal castles were constructed, such as the one at Bratislava; here, during the early 11th century, coins with the inscription Breslava Civitas (city of Bratislava) were minted. The first city in Hungary to receive a royal privilege was Trnava in Slovakia, in 1238.






EXTERNAL
LINKS 		Slovakian History, from Slovakia.org
History of Bratislava, from Bratislava Region
History of Trnava, from : City of Trnava
DOCUMENTS
REFERENCE Peter A. Toma, Dusan Kovac, Slovakia - from Samo to Dzurinda, Stanford : Hoover Institution Press 2001


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First posted on September 7th 2003, last revised on November 11th 2004

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