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ARCHAEOLOGISTS UNEARTH MASSIVE MORAVIAN CASTLE WALLS

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ARCHAEOLOGISTS UNEARTH MASSIVE MORAVIAN CASTLE WALLS UNDER HISTORIC PŘEROV SQUARE

Source: Czech Radio
Date: 4 March, 2020

Archaeologists are busy excavating massive walls of a Moravian castle dating back to the early Slavonic Age of nearly a millennium ago. The extraordinary find, made near the Comenius Museum in the town of Přerov, sheds lights on how royals sought to guard a medieval trade route in the Moravian Gate valley.

The oldest written reference to Přerov dates to 1141, when Bishop Jindřich Zdík noted that the town’s Church of St. George was among the most important in Moravia. A little over a century later, in 1256, King Přemysl Ottokar II of Bohemia decreed Přerov a royal town.

The newly discovered castle walls date back to that period, if not even earlier, Zdeněk Schenk, who heads the archaeological research team, told Czech Radio on a recent tour of the site.

https://www.radio.cz/en/section/cur...ian-castle-walls-under-historic-prerov-square
 
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