Editing Moravia (section)

== People ==
{{Main|Moravians (ethnic group)}}
[[File:Moravska narodnost 1991.PNG|thumb|left|Moravian nationality, as declared by people in the 1991 census]]
[[File:Moravian Slovak Costumes during Jizda Kralu.jpg|thumb|right|Moravian Slovak costumes (worn by men and women) during the ''Jízda králů'' ("[[Ride of the Kings]]") Festival held annually in the village of Vlčnov (southeastern Moravia)]]

The Moravians are generally a Slavic ethnic group who speak various (generally more archaic) dialects of [[Czech language|Czech]]. Before the expulsion of [[Germans]] from Moravia the Moravian German minority also referred to themselves as "Moravians" (''Mährer''). Those expelled and their descendants continue to identify as Moravian.
<ref>[http://www.praguepost.com/news/7769-csu-plays-down-census-disputes.html Bill Lehane: ČSÚ (Czech statistical office) plays down census disputes – Campaign want to include Moravian language in count (Moravian identity). ''The Prague Post''  9.3.2011 20]</ref> Some Moravians assert that [[Moravian language|Moravian]] is a language distinct from [[Czech language|Czech]]; however, their position is not widely supported by academics and the public.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://brno.idnes.cz/Brno-zpravy.aspx?c=A081226_234656_brno_dmk|title=Číšník tvoří spisovnou moravštinu|last=Kolínková |first=Eliška |date=26 December 2008|work=[[Mladá fronta DNES]]|publisher=iDnes|access-date=7 December 2011|language=cs}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://brnensky.denik.cz/zpravy_region/moravane-tvori-spisovnou-moravstinu20081112.html|title=Moravané tvoří spisovnou moravštinu|last=Zemanová|first=Barbora|date=12 November 2008|publisher=denik.cz|access-date=7 December 2011|language=cs|newspaper=Brněnský Deník}}</ref><ref>[http://nase-rec.ujc.cas.cz/archiv.php?art=7595 O spisovné moravštině a jiných "malých" jazycích (Naše řeč 5, ročník 83/2000)] {{in lang|cs}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://zpravy.idnes.cz/amatersky-jazykovedec-prosazuje-moravstinu-jako-novy-jazyk-ptp-/domaci.aspx?c=A081230_134715_domaci_ban|title=Amatérský jazykovědec prosazuje moravštinu jako nový jazyk|last=Kolínková |first=Eliška |date=30 December 2008|work=Mladá fronta DNES|publisher=iDnes|access-date=7 December 2011|language=cs}}</ref> Some Moravians identify as an ethnically distinct group; the majority consider themselves to be ethnically Czech. In the census of 1991 (the first census in history in which respondents were allowed to claim Moravian nationality), 1,362,000 (13.2%) of the Czech population identified as being of Moravian nationality (or ethnicity). In some parts of Moravia (mostly in the centre and south), majority of the population identified as Moravians, rather than Czechs. In the census of 2001, the number of Moravians had decreased to 380,000 (3.7% of the country's population).<ref name="KaplanBaldauf2005">{{cite book|author1=Robert B. Kaplan|author2=Richard B. Baldauf|title=Language Planning and Policy in Europe|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=T2TnL9boqzoC&pg=PA27|date=1 January 2005|publisher=Multilingual Matters|isbn=978-1-85359-813-5|pages=27–}}</ref> In the census of 2011, this number rose to 522,474 (4.9% of the Czech population).<ref name="Tesser2013">{{cite book|last=Tesser|first=Lynn|title=Ethnic Cleansing and the European Union: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Security, Memory and Ethnography|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ia-qdCeUaXIC&pg=PA213|date=14 May 2013|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan|isbn=978-1-137-30877-1|pages=213–}}</ref><ref name="Inc2013">{{cite book|author=Ibp, Inc|title=Czech Republic Mining Laws and Regulations Handbook - Strategic Information and Basic Laws|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dW-8AAAAQBAJ&pg=PA8|date=10 September 2013|publisher=Int'l Business Publications|isbn=978-1-4330-7727-2|pages=8–}}</ref>

Moravia historically had a large minority of [[ethnic Germans]], some of whom had arrived as early as the 13th century at the behest of the [[Přemyslid dynasty]]. Germans continued to come to Moravia in waves, culminating in the 18th century. They lived in the main city centres and in the countryside along the border with Austria (stretching up to Brno) and along the border with Silesia at Jeseníky, and also in two [[language island]]s, around Jihlava and around [[Moravská Třebová]]. After the [[World War II]], the Czechoslovak government almost fully [[Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia|expelled]] them in retaliation for their support of [[Nazi Germany]]'s invasion and dismemberment of Czechoslovakia (1938–1939) and subsequent [[German war crimes]] (1938–1945) towards the Czech, Moravian, and Jewish populations.

===Moravians===
[[File:Johan_amos_comenius_1592-1671.jpg|thumb|170px|John Amos Comenius]]
[[File:Tomáš_Garrigue_Masaryk_1925.PNG|thumb|170px|Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk]]
Notable people from Moravia include:
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{{see also|List of people from Moravia}}
*[[Anton Pilgram]] (1450–1516), architect, sculptor and woodcarver
*[[Jan Ámos Komenský]] (Comenius) (1592–1670), educator and theologian, last bishop of [[Unity of the Brethren (Czech Republic)|Unity of the Brethren]]
*[[Georg Joseph Kamel|Georg Joseph Camellus]] (1661–1706), [[Jesuit]] missionary to the [[Philippines]], pharmacist and botanist 
*[[David Zeisberger]] (1717–1807) [[Moravian Church|Moravian]] missionary to the [[Leni Lenape]], "Apostle to the Indians"
*[[Georg Prochaska|Georgius Prochaska]] (1749–1820), ophthalmologist and physiologist
*[[František Palacký]] (1798–1876), historian and politician, "The Father of the [[Czechs|Czech nation]]"
*[[Gregor Mendel]] (1822–1884), founder of [[genetics]]
*[[Ernst Mach]] (1838–1916), physicist and philosopher
*[[Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk]] (1850–1937), philosopher and politician, first president of Czechoslovakia
*[[Leoš Janáček]] (1854–1928), composer
*[[Sigmund Freud]] (1856–1939), founder of [[psychoanalysis]]
*[[Edmund Husserl]] (1859–1938), philosopher
*[[Alfons Mucha]] (1860–1939), painter
*[[Zdeňka Wiedermannová-Motyčková]] (1868–1915), women's rights activist
*[[Adolf Loos]] (1870–1933), architect, pioneer of [[functionalism (architecture)|functionalism]]
*[[Karl Renner]] (1870–1950), Austrian statesman, co-founder of [[Friends of Nature]] movement
*[[Tomáš Baťa]] (1876–1932), entrepreneur, founder of [[Bata Shoes]] company
*[[Joseph Schumpeter]] (1883–1950), economist and political scientist
*[[Marie Jeritza]] (1887–1982), soprano singer 
*[[Hans Krebs (SS general)|Hans Krebs]] (1888–1947), Nazi SS ''Brigadeführer'' executed for treason
*[[Ludvík Svoboda]] (1895–1979), general of [[I Corps (Czechoslovakia)|I Czechoslovak Army Corps]], seventh president of Czechoslovakia
*[[Klement Gottwald]] (1896–1953), first Czechoslovak [[communism|communist]] president
*[[Erich Wolfgang Korngold]] (1897–1957), composer
*[[George Placzek]] (1905–1955), physicist, participant in [[Manhattan Project]]
*[[Kurt Gödel]] (1906–1978), theoretical mathematician
*[[Oskar Schindler]] (1908–1974), [[Nazi Germany]] entrepreneur, saviour of almost 1,200 Jews during the WWII
*[[Jan Kubiš]] (1913–1942), paratrooper who assassinated Nazi [[despotism|despot]] [[Reinhardt Heydrich|R. Heydrich]]
*[[Bohumil Hrabal]] (1914–1997), writer
*[[Thomas J. Bata]] (1914–2008), entrepreneur, son of Tomáš Baťa and former head of the Bata shoe company
*[[Emil Zátopek]] (1922–2000), long-distance runner, [[List of multiple Olympic gold medalists|multiple Olympic gold medalist]]
*[[Karel Reisz]] (1926–2002), filmmaker, pioneer of the British [[Free Cinema]] movement
*[[Milan Kundera]] (1929–2023), writer
*[[Václav Nedomanský]] (born 1944), [[ice hockey]] player
*[[Karel Kryl]] (1944–1994), poet and protest singer-songwriter
*[[Karel Loprais]] (1949–2021), truck race driver, multiple winner of the [[Dakar Rally]]
*[[Ivana Trump]] (1949–2022), socialite and business magnate, former wife of [[Donald Trump]]
*[[Ivan Lendl]] (born 1959), [[tennis]] player
*[[Petr Nečas]] (born 1964), politician, [[Prime Minister of the Czech Republic|Czech Prime Minister]] 2010–2013
*[[Paulina Porizkova]] (born 1965), model, actress, writer
*[[Jana Novotná]] (1968–2017), tennis player
*[[Jiří Šlégr]] (born 1971), [[ice hockey]] player, member of the [[Triple Gold Club]]
*[[Bohuslav Sobotka]] (born 1971), [[social-democracy|social-democratic]] politician, [[Prime Minister of the Czech Republic|Czech Prime Minister]] 2014–2017
*[[Magdalena Kožená]] (born 1973), mezzo-soprano
*[[Markéta Irglová]] (born 1988), singer-songwriter, [[Academy Award]] winner
*[[Petra Kvitová]] (born 1990), tennis player
*[[Adam Ondra]] (born 1993), [[rock climber]]
*[[Barbora Krejčíková]] (born 1996), tennis player

===Ethnographic regions===
Moravia can be divided on dialectal and lore basis into several ethnographic regions of comparable significance. In this sense, it is more heterogenous than Bohemia. Significant parts of Moravia, usually those formerly inhabited by the German speakers, are dialectally indifferent, as they have been resettled by people from various Czech (and Slovak) regions.

The principal cultural regions of Moravia are:

*[[Haná|Hanakia]] (''Haná'') in the central and northern part
*[[Lachia]] (''Lašsko'') in the northeastern tip
*[[Horácko|Highlands]] (''Horácko'') in the west
*[[Moravian Slovakia]] (''Slovácko'') in the southeast
*[[Moravian Wallachia]] (''Valašsko'') in the east