GREAT MORAVIAN TERRITORY OF NITRA. CULTURAL MANIFESTATIONS, TERRITORIAL SCOPE AND THE ETHNIC AND SOCIAL-POLITICAL IDENTITY OF ITS POPULATION

• Authors: König Tomáš
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The main objective of the article is to determine the territorial scope of the Great Moravian territory of Nitra based on an analysis of archaeological sources. Specific cultural manifestations identified in the focal area of the Danube lowland delimit the studied territory from the settlement of adjacent regions of Slovakia and from the central settled territory in the Morava River basin. An interpretation of the results supported by a comparison with written sources and linguistic data a new view of the social-political identity of the Nitra population.

Keywords

EN

GREAT MORAVIA; NITRA; INHUMATION RITE; CHRISTIANISATION; SOCIAL-POLITICAL IDENTITY

• Publisher: Muzeológia a kultúrne dedičstvo, o.z.
• Journal: Muzeológia a kultúrne dedičstvo
• Year: 2017
• Volume: 5
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 9 – 28

Contributors

author

König Tomáš

• Comenius university in Bratislava, Faculty of Arts, Department of Archaeology, Gondova 2, 814 99 Bratislava, Slovak Republic