Czech archaeologists have for the first time proved that Velehrad, now a significant Catholic Church pilgrimage destination, was inhabited as early as the 9th-century era of Great Moravia, Zdenek Senk, from the Archaia Olomouc company, told CTK today. During the ongoing restoration of the local baroque basilica, the archaeologists uncovered pottery from the Great Moravian era. "In the past, fierce disputes were led over whether the site was inhabited in the Great Moravia period. Our find testifies to people´s activities right at the site of the basilica before it was established in the early 13th century," Senk said. Great Moravia was an early medieval Slavonic state spreading in Moravia and the adjacent areas, mainly Slovakia in the east and Bohemia in the west. [...]