833-906/7 AD Moravian legates were sent to Frankish emperors in 811 and 815.[6] In 822, the Royal Frankish Annals record that the Marvani paid homage to the Frankish Emperor at the Diet in Frankfurt:[28] At this assembly, he /the king/ gave audience also to the delegates sent with presents to him by all the Eastern Slavonic people, namely, by the Obotrites, Sorbs, Veleti, Czech, Moravians and Prædecents and the Avars settled in Pannonia. —Annales regni Francorum[29][30] The first Moravian ruler known by name, Mojmír I, was baptized in 831 by Reginhar, bishop of Passau.[4] There is not much information in the contemporary primary sources (only two remarks in a Western documents) about the polity referred to as the Principality of Nitra by later historians.[31] Nevertheless, during the first decades of the 9th century, the Slavic people living in the north-western parts of the Carpathian Basin were under the rule of a prince Pribina whose seat was in Nitra.[23] In 828, Prince Pribina, although probably still a pagan himself, built the first Christian church for his wife and German inhabitants within the borders of his principality in his possession called Nitrava.[32][33] In 833, Mojmír I expelled Pribina[34] from Nitra and the two principalities became united under the same ruler.[3][7] Excavations revealed that at least three Nitrian castles (Pobedim, Čingov, and Ostrá skala) were destroyed around the time of the conquest (i.e., around the time when Pribina was expelled from his possession).[3] But Pribina escaped to the Franks and their king Louis the German granted him parts of Pannonia around the Zala River, referred usually in modern works as the Balaton Principality.[35] upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/55/Great_Moravia-eng.png/707px-Great_Moravia-eng.png
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