Editing Moravia (section)

== Toponymy ==
The region and former margraviate of Moravia, ''Morava'' in Czech, is named after its [[List of rivers of the Czech Republic#Rivers flowing to the Black Sea (Danube basin)|principal]] river [[Morava (river)|Morava]]. It is theorized that the river's name is derived from [[Proto-Indo-European language|Proto-Indo-European]] ''*mori'': "waters", or indeed any word denoting ''water'' or a ''marsh''.<ref>ŠRÁMEK, Rudolf, MAJTÁN, Milan, Lutterer, Ivan: Zeměpisná jména Československa, Mladá fronta (1982), Praha, p. 202.</ref>

The German name for Moravia is ''Mähren'', from the river's German name ''March''. This could have a different etymology, as ''[[March (territory)|march]]'' is a term used in the Medieval times for an outlying territory, a border or a frontier (cf. English ''[[:wikt:march#Etymology 2|march]]''). In Latin, the name Moravia was used.