STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 2587, sig. 109-12/235

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0T - 2 - after the infiltration by the Slavs, the Germans remained the sole owners of the land. The Slavs and thus the Czechs of the Bohemian Moravian region could never, out of their national structure, be the bearers of a state organization or even the creator of a political constitution. Since in the ruling Germanic soil and social constitution the Czechs could not possess land as property, they could only have come to the country as a labour force or as propertyless rearers". The state of the early history can finally be said of the following: The emigration of Germanic populations from Bohemia and Moravia during the 5th and 6th century and the Ztr. Avarian horsemen from the middle of the Danube region were able to extend their journeys to central Germany and gradually move the Sudeten-Carpathian region into their domain. Finally, probably towards the end of the 6th century C.E., as a messenger of the Avars, sat down. At the beginning of the 7th century C.E., Slavic tribes also settled in Bohemia and Moravia. The relation of the late Germanic to the Slavic population is not yet to be overlooked in detail. Numerous reasons speak for the presence of a numerically still rather strong Germanic population, which exerted a significant cultural influence. It is not possible to speak of a supremacy of the Slavic population at all. Völkische Vermischung between Slavic and Germanic population is not excluded. With the extension of the Frankish power to the east, the Bohemian Moravian area was again integrated into the Germanic cultural circle. According to the chronicler Fredegar's report, numerous Germanic trade unions came to the country (their presence can also be archeologically -3-