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567 - 623: nomadic Avars penetrate to the central Europe and subdue Slavs; our ancestors forced to help them to pillage across the Europe
623 - 659: Samo's Realm - Samo, a Frankian merchant, organises Slavic uprising against Avars and becomes the king; the first sovereign state of Slavs
833 - 906: Great Moravian Realm /Empire - the most famous period of our ancient history, powerful and mighty state of ancient Slovaks and neighbouring Slavic tribes
833: Mojmir, the duke of western Moravians expelles the duke Pribina from eastern part of Morava and establishes united kingdom; later on, Pribina becomes liegeman of Frank Reich in Pannonia
846: Rastislav, with a help of Franks, becomes the king of Moravian realm, later on Rastislav becomes an enemy of Franks
863: arrival of St Constantin & St Method to our country; these christian missionaries, brothers from Thessaloniki in Greece, emissaries of Byzantine emperor, come upon an invitation of Rastislav to preach Christianity in Slavic language; they translate selected parts of The Holy Scripture and liturgical texts into our contemporary language; apart from it, they introduce the first Slavic alphabet called Hlahollic, which gradually evolved to the Cyrillic (Cyril was monk's name of St Constantin) used by Russians and many other Slavic nations; they also establish the first academy on our territory
869: the pope Hadrian II officially confirmes Slavic as the liturgical language making it the 4th in the world being used in the Christian liturgy, Bavarian bishops consider this act unacceptable
870: after many intrigues, Svatopluk defeates his uncle Rastislav and become the greatest Moravian /Slovak king we know; of course, the greatest in Middle Age meaning of this world: ambitious, sometimes cruel, excellent fighter with expansive policy
871 - 889: continuous wars between Slavs and Franks /Bavarians, expansion of Great Moravia to neighbouring Slavic territories (current Poland, Czech republic and even Germany), and theological disputes over liturgical language resulting in the gradual receding of Slavic liturgy
889 - 894: nomadic tribes of ancient Hungarians first time attack Great Moravia, Svatopluk repel them, since this time ancient Hungarians regurarly attack our territory, sometimes as an alies of Bavarians that has underestimated the danger resulting from Hungarian presence
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Nagyszombat (szlovákul Trnava, németül Tyrnau, latinul Tyrnavia vagy Tyrnaviae) város Szlovákiában. Szlovákia hetedik legnagyobb városa. A Nagyszombati kerület székhelye. Vágmagyarád tartozik hozzá.
Khan Shambat was the brother of khan Kubrat, of clan Dulo. It is unknown if he ruled a part of the Bulgars or not.
...Mária népe...
The Mari Traditional Religion also possesses a pantheon of gods who reside in the heavens, the most important of whom is known as the Great White God (Ош Кугу Юмо, Osh Kugu Yumo). Other lesser gods include the god of fire (Тул Юмо, Tul Yumo) and the god of wind (Мардеж Юмо, Mardezh Yumo). The Mari also believe in a number of half-men, half-gods (керемет, keremet) who live on earth. The most revered of these gods is Chumbulat (Чумбулат), Kubrat or Chumbylat (Чумбылат), a renowned leader and warrior.[3]
