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A historical region in the east of the Czech Republic
Region, central Europe. Bounded by Bohemia, Silesia, Slovakia, and northeastern Austria and crossed by the Morava River, it was inhabited from the 4th century BC. It was dominated by the Avars in the 6th and 7th centuries AD and later settled by Slavic tribes, and in the 9th century it became the state of Great Moravia and included Bohemia as well as parts of modern Poland and Hungary. It was destroyed by the Magyars in 906. In 1526 it came under Habsburg rule. After the Revolution of 1848 Moravia became an Austrian crown land with its capital at Brno. In 1918 it was incorporated into the new state of Czechoslovakia. Germany annexed parts of it in 1938; after World War II they were restored to Czechoslovakia. It was included in the Czech Socialist Republic created in 1968 and in the Czech Republic in 1993
{i} area located in the eastern Czech Republic; city in Iowa (USA); village in the state of New York (USA); family name; Alberto Moravia (1907-1990), pen name of Alberto Pincherle, leading 20th-century Italian novelist
a region in the central and eastern part of the Czech Republic; it lies east of Bohemia and west of the Carpathians

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Alberto Moravia
orig. Alberto Pincherle born Nov. 28, 1907, Rome, Italy died Sept. 26, 1990, Rome Italian journalist, novelist, and short-story writer. He worked as a journalist in Turin and as a foreign correspondent in London. Time of Indifference (1929), his first novel, is a scathing study of middle-class moral corruption. His works were censored by Benito Mussolini's fascists and placed on the Index librorum prohibitorum. Later important novels, many of them portrayals of social alienation and loveless sexuality, include The Conformist (1951; film, 1971), Two Women (1957; film, 1961), and The Empty Canvas (1960). His books of short stories include Roman Tales (1954) and More Roman Tales (1959). He was married to the writer Elsa Morante (1918-85)
Alberto Moravia
{i} pen name of Alberto Pincherle (1907-1990), leading 20th-century Italian novelist