Great Moravia; christianization; research

Christianization played an important role in the emergence of early medieval states in the MiddleEurope. During the 9th century, Christianity came to the territory of the Czech lands, first at Great Moravia, where an independent church organization with its own archbishopric was founded. Since the end of the 9th century, the territory of Bohemia has also been christianized, where it plays an important rolethe ruling dynasty of the Premyslids played in this process. The first Premyslids had already soughtthey also found their own church administration, they were able to establish in Prague in 973 only bishopric. The gradual Christianization of the country and the displacement of the older pagan cultsthe orders of Prince Břetislav I of 1039 and Břetislav II. from 1092. During the 11th century, a network of churches was also intensively built, so in the first half of the 12th century, the foundations of a parish organization could be established.