Die Entwicklung der Siedlungsstrukturen im mährisch-bayerisch-ungarischen Grenzgebiet nach dem Untergang Großmährens. Kollaps oder Neubeginn?
| Title in English | The development of settlement structures in the Moravian-Bavarian-Hungarian border area after the decline of Great Moravia. Collapse or new beginning? |
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| Year of publication | 2014 |
| Type | Article in Proceedings |
| Conference | Das lange 10. Jahrhundert. Struktureller Wandel zwischen Zentralisierung und Fragmentierung, äußerem Druck und innerer Krise |
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| Field | Archaeology, anthropology, ethnology |
| Keywords | archaeology; Moravia; collapse; border; Early Middle ages |
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| Description | If we consider the 10th century in western and central Europe as a dark century that was much influenced by the destabilisation of old entities, then this characteristic is true to a particular extent for so-called Great Moravia and especially for its heartland that extended along the lower reaches of the main Moravian rivers, the Morava and Dyje. Great Moravia was an early state, or so-called cyclical chiefdom, that dominated the eastern areas of central Europe politically as well as culturally in the 9th century. The end of the short existence of Great Moravia came at the beginning oft he 10th century when Magyar tribes settled in the Carpathian Basin and the political as well as the military circumstances in east-central Europe changed fundamentally. Considerably less attention was paid to the locations of finds from the 10th century in Moravia in comparison with previous periods. In the final quarter of the 10th century, an important centre came into being at the confluence of the Morava and Dyje. However, the Mojmirides in the Great Moravian period had already made use of the strategic location of this site by having a mighty fortified agglomeration constructed here in the area of present-day Pohansko, through which foreign armies as well as 282 J. Machácek Die Entwicklung der Siedlungsstrukturen im mährisch-bayerisch-ungarischen Grenzgebiet traders came into Moravia's heartland. Thanks to the archaeological research conducted in the past few years in the lower Dyje and Morava valleys, the 10th century can now not only be considered as an age marked by collapse and disintegration, but also as an epoch that stood under the influence of a renewed revival and new beginnings. After the decline, an economic upturn occurred, new trading links were opened, the economic system changed radically and was modernised through the introduction of a coinage economy, new elite groups seized the opportunity offered. |
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