Moravia

Moravia was a margraviate east of Bohemia, with its seat at Olomouc. In 1337 Charles of Luxembourg, son of King John of Bohemia, held it as a Bohemian fief.

Margrave Jobst was elected rival King of the Romans in 1410. Matthias Corvinus occupied Moravia in 1469, and the Peace of Olomouc pledged it to him in 1479. It passed to the Habsburgs with Bohemia in 1526; during the Thirty Years' War the capital moved to Brno in 1641. In 1804 Moravia became an Austrian crown land.