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Rastislav

Grand Duke of Moravia

PersonhumanQ347148

Also known as Rostislav

Born: 820
Died: unknown
Birthplace: Great Moravia
Place of death: Regensburg
Citizenship: Great Moravia
Occupation: monarch
Positions held: Duke of Moravia
Languages spoken, written or signed: Slavic
, Church Slavonic

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Rastislav or Rostislav was the second known ruler of Moravia (846–870). Although he started his reign as vassal to Louis the German, the king of East Francia, he consolidated his rule to the extent that after 855 he was able to repel a series of Frankish attacks. Upon his initiative, brothers Cyril and Methodius, sent by the Byzantine Emperor Michael III in 863, translated the most important Christian liturgical books into Slavonic. Rastislav was dethroned by his nephew Svatopluk I of Moravia, who handed him over to the Franks. He was canonized by the Eastern Orthodox Church in 1994 and is also known as Saint Rastislav.

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Sex or gender: male
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1.Stated in Integrated Authority FileRetrieved 2024-08-02
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Family: Moymirids
Canonization status: saint
Given name: Rostislav
Noble title: knyaz
Name in native language: Rastiz
Rastislav
Ῥασισθλάϐος
РОСТИСЛАВЪ
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1.commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Prince_Rastislav.JPG
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Religion or worldview: Christianity

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