No Magyars in Pannonia
Draft/Preview.Survival of Svatopluk I part 1
Arnulf's invasion started in July 892, but he failed to defeat Svatopluk I of Moravia. The war against Moravia seems to have continued until 894. A group Magyars came to great Moravia in 895 to aid Svatopluk I of Moravia against Arnulf and because of that Great Moravia survived although Bohemia remained detached from Great Moravia.
The Great Moravian state soon weakened and Svatopluk decided that Pannonia will go to his son Svatopluk as a fief of Great Moravia and Moravia and Nitra will go to his son Mojimir and Lusatia and Bohemia would go to his own son Predslav while Bohemia slipped to Bavarian suzerainty and because of that his son Predslav would only inherit Lusatia, while Silesia and Vislania will be transferred to Poland a dowry of one of the female relatives of Svatopluk named Svatoslava, who will be married to Lestek in exchange for the Christianization of Poland since the some of the people of Vislania and Silesia really recognized Lestek as their own ruler not the Moravian King as their own King so the complete transfer was not hard, in 898, Svatoslava married Lestek and established christianity in Poland so Lestek was baptised in 898 as a condition for the marriage, the marriage, the transfer of territory and christianization are the start of the Polish-Moravian alliance this was because Svatopluk wanted to end the dispute over Silesia and Vislania with Poland and Svatopluk wanted to avoid a possible Frankish-Polish alliance, Poland adopted Glagolithic as their written language just like Moravia and after the marriage Sviatopluk I of Moravia and Lestek I of Poland attacked Bohemia in 899 and many of it's population fled until Lestek and Svatopluk were stopped by Arnulf.
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