Czech History before 1002

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• Manuscriptorium

Virtual library of digitized documents sponsored by the Czech National Library.

(Book facsimiles in Czech, Latin, and German)

• Transformation Project by the European Union

Maps and images of transformations as seen through cultural artifacts.

Includes data on former Roman provinces now found in modern countries, including the Czech Republic.

Geographic and thematic approaches available in nine languages.

Shows the emergence of a common culture in the northern provinces of the Roman Empire from Britain to the Black Sea.

(Antiquity through 212 AD; maps and facsimile images)

• Account of the Marcomanis

From CASSIUS DIO'S ROMAN HISTORY. The Marcomanis were a Germanic tribal confederation likely residing in what is now Bohemia.

From LacusCurtius

(3rd century AD; English translation)

• Rules for the life of the society

Written by bishop Saint Augustine.

(397; transcription in Czech)

• Map of Slavic Migration

By the C6 the Slavs were the largest European race...Following the dissolution of the Hun Empire the Slavs made a rapid expansion populating modern Russia, Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Croatia, Serbia, Macedonia, Bulgaria, and Romania.

(6th century; English)

• "Chronicle of Bohemians" by Cosmas of Prague

History of Bohemia, the beginning of the Czech Republic.

(600–1122; transcription in Russian)

• Documents Related to the History of Great Moravia

Collection of ecclesiastical documents connected to Great Moravia.

(Czech; 862-1130)

• Great Moravia Map

(822-907; image and transcription in Czech)

• Czech in Great Moravia

(map image)

• The Astronomer’s Slavs

One of the principal sources for the times of Louis the Pious is the so-called Astronomer‘s “The Life of Emperor Louis.” Here are the Slavic excerpts from that work.

In Nomine Jassa

(840; English translation)

• Svatopluk I

The prince of the Principality of Nitra and the King of the Great Moravia.

(850–871; transcription in Czech)

• Svatopluk I

The prince of the Principality of Nitra and the King of the Great Moravia.

(871-894; transcription in Czech)

• Papal bull to Svatopluk

Formally approved the use of the invented Glagolitic and Cyrillic alphabets for ecclesiastical purposes.

Slovak translation available here.

(880; facsimile in Latin)

• Excerpt from Life of Constantine

This section deals with the mission of Cyril and Methodius to Great Moravia and the development of a slavic script. Also the oldest known document written in Old Church Slavonic.

(885; English translation)

• Tale about disappearance of Moravian king Svatopluk

Passage is taken from the Chronicle of Kosmova.

(894; transcription in Czech)

• Premysl the Ploughman

First Czech prince.

(9th century; image)

• Boleslaus I the Cruel

(935-972; image)

• The letter of Pope to Boleslaw I

Document contains agreement to create Bishopric in Prague.

(967-968; transcription in Czech)

• Christian Legend

History of the beginning of Christianity and first saints in early Czech lands.

(994; image-facsimile, transcription in Czech; also available in Latin)

• Murder of Slavník dynasty

(995; transcription in Czech)

• Map of the Czech Boleslav Empire

(10th century; image, transcription in Czech)

• Boleslaus III the Red-haired

(999-1002; image)

• Archiv starých česko-slovenských listín

Archive of Old Czech and Slovak Documents

(Beginnings to 1526; Czech and Slovak language facsimiles)

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