1. Lecture | <\/span><\/strong>The arrival of the Charvatians in South Moravia<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n 25th September 2022 | 14:00 | Havl\u00ed\u010dkova Villa, B\u0159eclav-Po\u0161torn\u00e1<\/p>\n Reservations at prodej@lvhf.cz<\/strong> (Capacity 40 people), Entrance Fee Voluntary<\/p>\n The lecture by the historian Miroslav Ger\u0161ic<\/strong> explains the arrival of the Charvats in the Valtice region in connection with the Liechtenstein princely house.<\/p>\n The expansion of the Ottoman Empire into the Balkans was main reason for the arrival of the Croats to the area of not only the then Lower Austrian Valtice. After the conquest of Constantinople (today\u2019s Istanbul) in 1453, Belgrade in 1521 or the threat to Vienna itself eight years later, a part of the Balkan Christian population was pushed further and further north across the Danube River. Their arrival was supported by the Liechtensteins because after the Hussite wars and the wars with the Hungarian king Matthias Corvinus<\/strong>, the population declined and several villages around Valtice even disappeared. Additionally, the Valtice line of the Liechtensteins became actively acquainted with the problems and fate of the Croats directly on the Turkish battlefront, because for example George Hartmann I. from Liechtenstein<\/strong> (1475\u20131542) and his grandsons Georg Erasmus<\/strong> (1547\u20131591) and Georg Hartmann II.<\/strong> (1562\u20131585) served here as commanders of the imperial troops.<\/p>\n However, this was not a one-time process \u2013 quite the opposite. The arrival to the Liechtenstein dominion of Valtice took place in several waves of migration. The first one, under Georg Hartmann I.<\/strong> in 1533, saw the rebuilding of the previously deserted village of Po\u0161torn\u00e1 and the foundation of today\u2019s Charv\u00e1tsk\u00e1 Nov\u00e1 Ves<\/strong>, also known as Doln\u00ed and Horn\u00ed Charv\u00e1ty (Under Krabattn and Obern Krabath). During the second one, under his grandson Georg Hartmann II.<\/strong>, a second village was newly founded in the summer months of 1570 \u2013 Hlohovec<\/strong> (or Lohohec in the local dialect). Unlike Po\u0161torn\u00e1, the Croats did not rebuild the extinct village Aloch, but chose a place for a new village near the already built ponds of Lednice. The name of the village did not refer to the newly settled Slavic population originally from the Balkans but was based on the name of the place that belonged to the bishops of Passau in the Middle Ages.<\/p>\n Miroslav Ger\u0161ic<\/strong> | historian<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>![](\"https:\/\/www.lvhf.cz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Snimek-obrazovky-2022-07-05-v-23.31.46.jpg\" "\\"Mapa")