PRÁVNO-HISTORICKÉ ASPEKTY VEĽKOMORAVSKEJ ŠTÁTNOSTI

• Authors: Jáger Róbert

Title variants

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Legal and historical aspects of Great Moravian statehood

• Languages of publication: SK

Abstracts

EN

The article describes the issue of the perception of Great Moravia as a state. The author points out when the term “state” for Great Moravia was used for the first time in professional literature, as well as how other authors perceived Great Moravia, as well as what definition of state the authors used. The article further describes how the understanding of the legacy of Great Moravian history was politicized in individual periods. He points out that in the period after 1867 the question of Great Moravian history was mainly presented from the perspective of the defense of Palacký. After 1918, Great Moravia was a symbol of the historical unity of the Czechoslovak nation, and at the same time a suitable historical justification for the policy of Czechoslovakism. After 1939, Prince Pribina as the first ruler of Nitra was presented in Slovakia, and the unification of Great Moravia was presented as a violent act of aggression of the Czechs against the Slovaks. After 1948, the legacy of Great Moravia is again presented as the oldest state of Czechs and Slovaks (no longer one Czechoslovak nation). The author points out that although the conditions for the de-politicization of the perception of history occurred after 1989, this was not quite the case in Slovakia. In conclusion, the author points out in what way the perception of the history of Great Moravian statehood could be changed.

Keywords

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GREAT MORAVIA; STATEHOOD; PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION

• Publisher: Jan Stanislav Slavonic Institute, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Matica Slovenska
• Journal: Slavica Slovaca
• Year: 2020
• Volume: 55
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 427 – 434

Contributors

author

Jáger Róbert

• Univerzita Mateja Bela v Banskej Bystrici, Právnická fakulta, Komenského 20, 974 01 Banská Bystrica, Slovak Republic