AH Challenge: Surviving Great Moravia

Your challenge is to find a way to make Great Moravia survive to the modern day. POD is in the 9th century, with Svatopluk I having only one son. If you cannot work with that, you may suggest another POD.

Modern day borders of Moravia must include at minimum OTL Moravia and Slovakia, but Czechoslovakia borders are preferred. If you can manage to also include Lusatia and/or Silesia, you will receive cake.

The country can fall under the influence of/be annexed by another country (as long as it regains independence by the early 20th century), but it must not be partitioned, and it must maintain a unified Moravian identity and language.
 
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Giladis

Banned
Considering everything I believe that Great Moravia would much more likely include Transdanubia than Lusatia.

With no dinastic turbulance, GM will be strong enough to reppel the Magyar when they come, meaning no Hungary as we know it and maybe no Hungary at all.
 
If repelled from Transdanubia the magyars would either just disappear as one of the curiosities of history, if not they settle in Romania and any Romance-speakers left there will seem even more peculiar!:p

But what would the Moravian culture be like? Did they speak czech? Were they christian?
 

Giladis

Banned
They spoke Moravian. Their chirtianity was preforming a balancing act between Rome and Constantinopole.
 
But what would the Moravian culture be like? Did they speak czech? Were they christian?
Czech and Slovak started splitting from proto-Slavic in the 10th century. If Moravia stays together, eastern and western dialects might still develop, but they'd be mutually intelligible, possibly more so than OTL Czech and Slovak are today.

They were Christian, with missionaries from East Francia and Byzantine Empire. They were eager to cuddle up to Byzantium in order to keep the Franks at an arm's length, so they might've ended up Orthodox if given the chance.
 
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