Re: Moravia-Silesia

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Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1999 09:40:21 +0200 (EET)
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Subject: Re: Moravia-Silesia

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Original sender: Simeon Tsonev <[email protected]>

Re: Moravia-Silesia


Dear Sirs,
 
My name is Simeon Tsonev and as a Bulgarian and a Slavic speaker I
have an amateur interest in Slavistics. I had never heard of a
Moravian nationalist movement before.  Of course, I know that the
Silesians have been considered a distinct group midway between Czech
and Polish but I had never heard of a separate Moravian identity.  I
know well the history of the medieval state of Greater Moravia but it
ended in the 10th century after the Magyars came.  My idea was that
the Western Slavic tribes (Moravians, Czechs and a bunch of others
consolidated into one ethnic group that came to be called Czech by the
name of the tribe that founded the kingdom in the later 10th century. 
I think the Slovaks were a related tribe but they formed their own
ethnicity due to the fact that they were not incorporated into the
Czech kingdom.
 
Apparently, my (rather simplistic) view are not entirely correct.  Can
you give me some background on the development of a
nationalist/separatist/cultural Moravian-Silesian movement.  Are there
any scholarly works that assert the distinctiveness of the Moravian or
Silesian languages?  Please provide some bibliography!
 
Yours sincerely,
 
Simeon Tsonev

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