Editing Moravia (section)

===20th century===
[[File:MapMorav1906-0523.jpg|alt=Administrative map of Moravia and Silesia, 1906|thumb|Administrative map of Moravia and Silesia, 1906]]
Following the break-up of the [[Austro-Hungarian Empire]] in 1918, Moravia became part of [[Czechoslovakia]]. As one of the five lands of Czechoslovakia, it had restricted autonomy. In 1928 Moravia ceased to exist as a territorial unity and was merged with [[Czech Silesia]] into the Moravian-Silesian Land (yet with the natural dominance of Moravia). By the [[Munich Agreement]] (1938), the southwestern and northern peripheries of Moravia, which had a German-speaking majority, were annexed by [[Nazi Germany]], and during the German [[occupation of Czechoslovakia]] (1939–1945), the remnant of Moravia was an administrative unit within the [[Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia]]. 

During [[World War II]], the Germans operated multiple [[Forced labour under German rule during World War II|forced labour]] camps in the region, including several subcamps of the [[Stalag VIII-B|Stalag VIII-B/344]] [[German prisoner-of-war camps in World War II|prisoner-of-war camp]] for [[Allies of World War II|Allied]] POWs,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.lamsdorf.com/working-parties.html|title=Working Parties|website=Lamsdorf.com|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201029103834/https://www.lamsdorf.com/working-parties.html|access-date=5 November 2023|archive-date=29 October 2020}}</ref> a [[List of subcamps of Auschwitz|subcamp]] of the [[Auschwitz concentration camp]] in [[Brno]] for mostly [[Polish people|Polish]] prisoners,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.auschwitz.org/en/history/auschwitz-sub-camps/brnn/|title=Brünn|website=Memorial and Museum Auschwitz-Birkenau|access-date=5 November 2023}}</ref> and a subcamp of the [[Gross-Rosen concentration camp]] in [[Červená Voda (Ústí nad Orlicí District)|Bílá Voda]] for Jewish women.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://en.gross-rosen.eu/historia-kl-gross-rosen/filie-obozu-gross-rosen/|title=Subcamps of KL Gross-Rosen|website=Gross-Rosen Museum in Rogoźnica|access-date=5 November 2023}}</ref> The occupiers also established several POW camps, including Heilag VIII-H, [[Oflag VIII-F]] and Oflag VIII-H, for [[French prisoners of war in World War II|French]], British, Belgian and other Allied POWs in the region.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Megargee|first1=Geoffrey P.|last2=Overmans|first2=Rüdiger|last3=Vogt|first3=Wolfgang|year=2022|title=The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos 1933–1945. Volume IV|publisher=Indiana University Press, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum|pages=207, 257, 259|isbn=978-0-253-06089-1}}</ref>

In 1945 after the Allied defeat of Germany and the end of World War II, the German minority was [[Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia after World War II|expelled]] to Germany and [[Austria]] in accordance with the [[Potsdam Agreement]]. The Moravian-Silesian Land was restored with Moravia as part of it and towns and villages that were left by the former German inhabitants, were re-settled by Czechs, [[Slovaks]] and reemigrants.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Bičík |first1=Ivan |last2=Štěpánek |first2=Vít |title=Post-war changes of the land-use structure in Bohemia and Moravia: Case study Sudetenland |journal=GeoJournal |date=1994 |volume=32 |issue=3 |pages=253–259 |doi=10.1007/BF01122117 |bibcode=1994GeoJo..32..253B |s2cid=189878438 |url=https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2FBF01122117}}</ref> In 1949 the territorial division of Czechoslovakia was radically changed, as the Moravian-Silesian Land was abolished and Lands were replaced by "''kraje''" (regions), whose borders substantially differ from the historical Bohemian-Moravian border, so Moravia politically ceased to exist after more than 1100 years (833–1949) of its history. Although another administrative reform in 1960 implemented (among others) the North Moravian and the South Moravian regions (''Severomoravský'' and ''Jihomoravský kraj''), with capitals in Ostrava and Brno respectively, their joint area was only roughly alike the historical state and, chiefly, there was no land or federal autonomy, unlike Slovakia.

After the fall of the [[Soviet Union]] and the whole [[Eastern Bloc]], the Czechoslovak [[Federal Assembly (Czechoslovakia)|Federal Assembly]] condemned the cancellation of Moravian-Silesian land and expressed "firm conviction that this injustice will be corrected" in 1990. However, after the [[Dissolution of Czechoslovakia|breakup]] of Czechoslovakia into [[Czech Republic]] and [[Slovakia]] in 1993, Moravian area remained integral to the Czech territory, and the latest administrative division of Czech Republic (introduced in 2000) is similar to the administrative division of 1949. Nevertheless, the [[federalism|federalist]] or [[separatism|separatist]] movement in Moravia is completely marginal.

The centuries-lasting historical Bohemian-Moravian border has been preserved up to now only by the [[List of the Roman Catholic dioceses of the Czech Republic|Czech Roman Catholic Administration]], as the Ecclesiastical Province of Moravia corresponds with the former Moravian-Silesian Land. The popular perception of the Bohemian-Moravian border's location is distorted by the memory of the 1960 regions (whose boundaries are still partly in use).

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JanCerny.jpg|[[Jan Černý]], president of Moravia in 1922–1926, later also Prime Minister of Czechoslovakia
Map of Moravia.jpg|A general map of Moravia in the 1920s
First Czechoslovak Republic.SVG|In 1928, Moravia was merged into Moravia-Silesia, one of four lands of Czechoslovakia, together with Bohemia, [[Slovakia#Czechoslovakia (1918–1939)|Slovakia]] and [[Carpathian Ruthenia#Subcarpathian Rus' (1928–1938)|Subcarpathian Rus]].
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