Was Medieval Moravia in the Hungarian Plain? Martin Eggers: Das “Großmährische Reich”—Realität oder Fiktion? Eine Neuinterpretation der Quellen zur Geschichte des mittleren Donauraumes im 9. Jahrhundert; Das Erzbistum des Method, Lage, Wirkung un
Was Medieval Moravia in the Hungarian Plain? Martin Eggers: Das “Großmährische Reich”—Realität oder Fiktion? Eine Neuinterpretation der Quellen zur Geschichte des mittleren Donauraumes im 9. Jahrhundert; Das Erzbistum des Method, Lage, Wirkung un

Summary/Abstract: The hypothesis launched by the late Imre Boba and accepted by a handful of scholars—Charles Bowlus, Herbert Schelesniker, Otto Kronsteiner, among them— according to which early medieval Moravia was located not where traditional scholarship had placed it, namely, in the Northern Morava River Valley, but in present-day Serbia and, more specifically, in the Southern Morava River Valley and in an area west thereof, with ancient Sirmium (today’s Sremska Mitrovica) as its center, can now be discarded.1 By contrast, a more recent theory, which places the original Moravian state— before the coup d ’état by Prince Sventopulk in 870—in the Great Hungarian Plain on both sides of the Tisza River, deserves to be taken more seriously, a number of inaccuracies and open questions notwithstanding.

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