page_title: Moravia
section_title: Moravians
hierarchical_section_title: Moravia / People / Moravians
caption_attribution_description: English: Description of ethnic composition of Moravians in 1878. Čeština: Popis etnického složení Moravanů v roce 1878.
context_page_description: Moravia is a historical region in the east of the Czech Republic and one of three historical Czech lands, with Bohemia and Czech Silesia.
  The medieval and early modern Margraviate of Moravia was a crown land of the Lands of the Bohemian Crown from 1348 to 1918, an imperial state of the Holy Roman Empire from 1004 to 1806, a crown land of the Austrian Empire from 1804 to 1867, and a part of Austria-Hungary from 1867 to 1918. Moravia was one of the five lands of Czechoslovakia founded in 1918, in 1928 it was merged with Czech Silesia, and dissolved during the abolition of the land system in 1949 following the communist coup d'état.
  Its area of 22,623.41 km² is home to more than 3 million people.
  The people are historically named Moravians, a subgroup of Czechs, the other group being called Bohemians. Moravia also had been home of a large German-speaking population until their expulsion in 1945. The land takes its name from the Morava river, which runs from its north to south, being its principal watercourse. Moravia's largest city and historical capital is Brno.
context_section_description: Notable people from Moravia include (in order of birth):
  Anton Pilgram (1450–1516), architect, sculptor and woodcarver
  Jan Ámos Komenský (Comenius) (1592–1670), educator and theologian, last bishop of Unity of the Brethren
  Georg Joseph Camellus (1661–1706), Jesuit missionary to the Philippines, pharmacist and botanist
  David Zeisberger (1717–1807) Moravian missionary to the Leni Lenape, "Apostle to the Indians"
  Georgius Prochaska (1749–1820), ophthalmologist and physiologist
  František Palacký (1798–1876), historian and politician, "The Father of the 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
  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 (1888–1947), Nazi SS Brigadeführer executed for war crimes
  Ludvík Svoboda (1895–1979), general of I Czechoslovak Army Corps, seventh president of Czechoslovakia
  Klement Gottwald (1896–1953), first Czechoslovak 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 despot 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, multiple Olympic gold medalist
  Karel Reisz (1926–2002), filmmaker, pioneer of British Free Cinema movement
  Milan Kundera (1929–), writer
  Václav Nedomanský (1944–), ice hockey player
  Karel Kryl (1944–1994), poet and protest singer-songwriter
  Ivana Trump (1949–), socialite and business magnate, former wife of Donald Trump
  Ivan Lendl (1959–), tennis player
  Jana Novotná (1968–2017), tennis player
  Jiří Šlégr (1971–), ice hockey player, member of the Triple Gold Club
  Bohuslav Sobotka (1971–), social-democratic politician, Czech Prime Minister 2014–2017
  Magdalena Kožená (1973–), mezzo-soprano
  Markéta Irglová (1988–), Academy awarded singer-songwriter
  Petra Kvitová (1990–), tennis player
  Adam Ondra (1993–), rock climber
caption: Old ethnic division of Moravians according to an encyclopaedia of 1878
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