«Omnes Marahoni insimul mandaverunt»: мораване как этнос и политическая единица
«Omnes Marahoni insimul mandaverunt». The Moravians as an ethnos and political entity.

Summary/Abstract: The paper deals with the meaning of the term «Moravians» used in written sources of the 9th century. Short research review reveals various interpretations of the origin and fundaments of the Moravian society. Some of them have their roots in the medieval period, others reflect contemporary conceptions of ethnogenesis present in modern social sciences. Aside from it is the use of the term «Moravians» in medieval Slavic and Latin sources, where the term denotes both an ethnic community and a political unit. From the analysis of these sources follows that the term «Moravians» was used in the sense of a military unit, an object of Christianization, and also had a geographical aspect and/or used to denote the ethnic affiliation of Slavic elites. However, the term «Moravians» was also relevant when referring to people assemblies. In this case a special expression «all the Moravians» was used. This expression was also known in later period when Moravia was under the Přemyslid rule. Despite this fact, there is no reason to assume ethnical continuity between Moravia of the 9th century and that from the period after 1029.

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