Morauia
English
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Morauia
- Obsolete spelling of Moravia.
- 1613, Samuel Purchas, “[Asia.] Of the Tartarians, and of diuers Nations which they subdued; with their Pristine Rites.”, in Purchas His Pilgrimage. Or Relations of the World and the Religions Observed in All Ages and Places Discouered, from the Creation vnto this Present. […], London: […] William Stansby for Henrie Fetherstone, […], →OCLC, book IV (Of the Armenians, Medes, Persians, Parthians, Scythians, Tartarians, Chinois, and of Their Religions), page 335:
- From Rome did Pope Innocent the fourth ſend Ambaſſadors, by entreaties to preuent their armes, when as they had already ouer-runne (beſides thoſe countries which ſtill beare their name) Ruſsia, Polonia, Sleſia, Morauia, Hungaria, euen as farre as Austria.