Medievalists.net » The Amber Road http://www.medievalists.net Where the Middle Ages Begin Sun, 06 Dec 2015 23:06:49 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.9 The Early German Settlement of North Eastern Moravia: and What the Pied Piper of Hamelin Had to Do with It http://www.medievalists.net/2013/12/29/the-early-german-settlement-of-north-eastern-moravia-and-what-the-pied-piper-of-hamelin-had-to-do-with-it/ http://www.medievalists.net/2013/12/29/the-early-german-settlement-of-north-eastern-moravia-and-what-the-pied-piper-of-hamelin-had-to-do-with-it/#comments Sun, 29 Dec 2013 20:45:52 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=46173 Long ago, primordial forests, dark and impenetrable, surrounded the mountainous frontier, which today separates northeastern Bohemia from large parts of northern Moravia in the Czech Republic. This area was situated north of the sparsely populated flatlands of the March (Morava) River. The stillness of the forests remained largely undisturbed by man.

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