For example, can today's Slovaks trace their roots to Great Moravia in the 9th century?

ECONOMIST: Slovakia's disturbing patriotism

In 1939, the German army crossed the Czech frontier and Adolf Hitler proclaimed the protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia.

CNN: Saturday, March 15, 1997R

The Czech Republic consists of the ancient provinces of Bohemia and Moravia, with a mountainous rim on its western border with Germany.

BBC: Czech Republic

In the Czech Republic the proportion of households insured against flooding has doubled since 1997, when Moravia, in the east of the country, was inundated.

ECONOMIST: The continent awash

The attack on the village was in retaliation for the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, the highest ranking Nazi official in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia.

BBC: Lidice

Conditions in Moravia are illustrated in the table for Brno.

BBC: Czech Republic

This period of conflict may last for decades, particularly if the new paradigm comes, not from some of the existing leaders of the current scientific establishment but rather from some unexpected and peripheral source, e.g. the dramatically different theory of genetics coming from Gregor Mendel in Moravia or a revolutionary theory of stomach ulcers from Barry Marshall in Perth, Australia.

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