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It is frequently asserted that Imre Boba's attempt to relocate the heartland of ninth‐century Moravia cannot be correct because it is a well‐known ‘fact’ that c.830 Moimar, the first Moravian duke, drove his rival Pribina from the fort of Nitra north of the Danube. However, the only source (the so‐called Conversio Bagoariorum et Carantanorum) ever cited to support this ‘fact’ makes no such statement. While modern printed editions of the Conversio do contain a statement connecting Pribina with Nitra, editors of the text recognize that this connection must have been a marginal gloss that found its way into some manuscripts much later. Assertions that two other sources, the Heimo‐Urkunde and the Theotmarbrief, prove that Nitra was a part of a Moravian realm as early as c.830 cannot stand careful scrutiny. The Heimo‐Urkunde, an original source dated 888, does not mention Nitra at all. While it does make a passing reference to Moravians, it does not locate them geographically. The Theomarbrief, if its authenticity can be trusted, dates from c.900 and can only establish that Nitra first became a part of the Moravian realm during the reign of Duke Sventibald (c.870–94), who conquered it and converted its pagan residents.
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