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Moravia

noun

A region in the central and eastern part of the Czech Republic; it lies to the east of Bohemia and to the west of the Carpathians.

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... it, except at the last extremity; I would have made it my sacred battalion, my immortals. It is with Arabs, Greeks, and Armenians that I would have ended the war against the Turks. Instead of one battle in Moravia I would have gained a battle of Issus; I would have made myself emperor of the East, and returned to Paris by the way of Constantinople."—De Pradt, p.19 (Napoleon's own words at Mayence, September, 1804): "Since two hundred years there is nothing more to do in Europe; ...

— The Origins of Contemporary France, Volume 5 (of 6) - The Modern Regime, Volume 1 (of 2)(Napoleon I.) • Hippolyte A. Taine

... was passed in campaigning. His absences from Rome were numerous and long. We hear of him in Asia Minor, Syria, Egypt, Greece; but, above all, in the countries on the Danube, where the war with the barbarians was going on,—in Austria, Moravia, Hungary. In these countries much of his Journal seems to have been written; parts of it are dated from them; and there, a few weeks before his fifty-ninth birthday, he fell sick and died.[209] The record of him on which his fame chiefly rests is the record of his ...

— Selections from the Prose Works of Matthew Arnold • Matthew Arnold

... from the river Morava, at that time a powerful kingdom, governed by Swatopluk, and of much greater extent than modern Moravia.—Forst. ...

— A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Vol. 1 • Robert Kerr

Words linked to "Moravia" : geographical region, geographic area, geographic region, geographical area, Czech Republic