Czechs and Slovaks propose ancient Great Moravian sites on UNESCO list

The Slovak and Czech culture ministries signed a joint proposal to nominate two sites of Great Moravia - the Slavonic fortified settlement in Mikulcice (Czech Republic) and the Church of St. Margaret of Antioch in Kopsany (Trnava region of Slovakia) - for inclusion on the UNESCO World Heritage List. The territory where the sites are located stretches over the borders of the Czech and Slovak Republics. The two are the most preserved immovable sites from the early Middle Ages in the Slavonic state known as Great Moravia (in existence at the turn of the 9th and 10th centuries), whose founders were believed to be the ancestors of the Czechs and Slovaks. Its imperial city was Nitra.

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Slavonic Fortified Settlement at Mikulcice

The territory is stretching in present days over the borders of the Czech and Slovak Republics. Fortified settlement, it's under site and important part of pre-site is stretching along Morava riverbed in the today's cadastral territory of Mikulčice in the Czech Republic. The tentative List for inscription of the Great Moravia fortified settlement at Mikulčice to the List of World Cultural Heritage was submitted in 2001.

Church of St. Margaret at Kopcany

The church of St. Margaret Antiokhii in Kopcany with the archaeological locality of near-church cemetery and ante nave (narthex) forms a part of the Slavonic fortified settlement at Mikulčice, which is the most preserved immovable monument of early Middle Ages Slavonic state called Great Moravia.

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