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

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The foundation of the Samo Empire offers a good proof of this. Similar processes took place in the East-Elbian regions under northern German rule. According to Wostry, not only is the foundation laid by Charles the Great, "to the bond of the two countries with the Great Franconian, then East Franconian empires, but also to their state affiliation to the old German empire, which lasted until its end and is now restored". the ban on arms exports) led to the influence of the Viking powers already during his reign. After his death and the temporary decline of the Great Germanic Empire, their influence increased significantly. Also Viking followers must have entered Bohemian Moravian soil, as recent investigations show. Ultimately, this assumption is also further supported by the excavation results on the Prague Castle Mountain.The historical processes in the Bohemian-Moravian region appear in a very specific light, taking into account various research branches. As Wostry writes, the Slavs did not migrate as "nationally, politically, stately closed people", but as small tribal units. Only in the course of the 9th and 10th century and the 20th century, there was the formation of larger tribal associations, among which the Czechs, led by the gender of the Pschemislids, are politically particularly successful. Probably in the late 9th century C.E. - probably only at the beginning of the 1st century - the Prague castle emerged as the tribal seat of this sex. It was obviously a new foundation. Its importance could only be achieved by the dominant position at the extreme -4-