Editing Arnulf of Carinthia (section)

===Wars with Moravia===
As early as 880, Arnulf had designs on [[Great Moravia]] and had the Frankish bishop [[Wiching]] of [[Nitra]] interfere with the missionary activities of the [[Eastern Orthodox Church|Eastern Orthodox]] priest [[Cyril and Methodius|Methodius]], with the aim of preventing any potential for creating a unified Moravian state.<ref>Mann III, pg. 243</ref> Arnulf had formal relations with the ruler of the Moravian Kingdom, [[Svatopluk I of Moravia|Svatopluk]], using them to learn the latter's military and political secrets. Later, these tactics were used to occupy the territory of the Greater Moravian state.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.degruyter.com/downloadpdf/j/ebce.2018.8.issue-1/ebce-2018-0007/ebce-2018-0007.pdf |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/https://www.degruyter.com/downloadpdf/j/ebce.2018.8.issue-1/ebce-2018-0007/ebce-2018-0007.pdf |archive-date=2022-10-09 |url-status=live|title=Ethics and politics of Great Moravia of the 9th century Vasil Gluchman}}</ref>

Arnulf failed to conquer the whole of Great Moravia in wars of 892, 893, and 899. Yet Arnulf did achieve some successes, in particular in 895, when the [[Duchy of Bohemia]] broke away from Great Moravia and became his vassal state. An accord was reached between him and Duke of Bohemia [[Borivoj I]]. Bohemia was thus freed from the dangers of Frankish invasion. In 893 or 894 Great Moravia probably lost a part of its territory—present-day western [[Hungary]]—to him. As a reward, Wiching became Arnulf's chancellor in 892.<ref>Mann, III, pg. 244</ref> In his attempts to conquer Moravia, in 899 Arnulf reached out to [[Magyars]] who had settled in the [[Carpathian Basin]], and with their help he imposed a measure of control over Moravia.<ref name="Comyn, pg. 83">Comyn, pg. 83</ref><ref>Mann IV, pg. 13</ref>