page_title: Moravia
section_title: Pre-history
hierarchical_section_title: Moravia / History / Pre-history
caption_attribution_description: English: Věstonice Reservoir (south part of the Moravia) Čeština: Věstonická nádrž (jižní Morava)
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: Evidence of the presence of members of the human genus, Homo, dates back more than 600,000 years in the paleontological area of Stránská Skála.
  Attracted by suitable living conditions, early modern humans settled in the region by the Paleolithic period. The Předmostí archeological (Cro-magnon) site in Moravia is dated to between 24,000 and 27,000 years old. Caves in Moravský kras were used by mammoth hunters. Venus of Dolní Věstonice, the oldest ceramic figure in the world, was found in the excavation of Dolní Věstonice by Karel Absolon.
caption: Pálava mountains with Věstonice Reservoir, area of palaeolithic settlement.
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