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Nitra Region
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The Nitra Region lies in the southwestern part
of Slovakia and the city of Nitra is its administrative
and social centre. This region is characterised
by its lowlands with fertile soil, thanks to which
this territory is known mainly for its good
quality agricultural products. The concentration
important historic period for Nitra was the age
of the Great Moravia Empire, the first Slavic state
to be established in today’s territory of Slovakia.
The many archaeological findings from this period
include also various important written documents
that confirm the importance of the city and the region
of educational and scientific research institutions
in the field of agricultural make the city of Nitra
the main agricultural centre of Slovakia. For visitors
to the city, this opens up the possibility to see
scientific centres, the exhibition facility Agrocomplex,
the world‘s largest specialised festival Agrofilm,
as well as the Slovak Agricultural Museum, or
the many surrounding villages with their own specific
offers of rural tourism. Nitra lies at the crossroad
of the fertile lowlands and mountain regions that
further to the northeast and east continue along
the arc of the Carpathian Mountains. The strategic
importance of this location and its advantages were
the reason why fortresses and settlements were built
up here already in ancient times. Archaeological
findings confirm the presence of dwellings
in this location dating back 30,000 years. A very
in the history of Europe at the time. In addition
to the ever-important agricultural production,
the region is well known also for its thermal springs,
which provided the foundation for the establishment
of spa and relaxation resorts in various locations
in the region, as well as for its well-preserved historic
buildings and interesting excursion destinations. Nitra
is also an important hub of culture with a very rich
menu of cultural activities for visitors to the region
throughout the whole year.
Nitra
Few places have been so blessed by nature with such beautiful
scenery and an ideal location as Nitra. They say that it was
founded (just like Rome) on seven hills – Zobor, Castle hill,
Kalvaria, ermánia, Borina, na V šku and Martinsk�½ vrch. Its
name is associated with the birth of Slovak history, and with
the names of Pribina, Svatopluk, and saints Cyril and Methodius.
It is even linked to a chronicle of the first Christian church
in the territory of Slovakia, as well as to the adoption
of the first Slavonic alphabet. The very beginnings of the
Nitra settlement go back to prehistory as it was documented
by numerous archaeological findings in the territory of the city.
It was a densely populated region some 30,000 years ago.
The first peasant settlements were here some 6,000 years ago.
In the 4
th
century B.C. this area was settled by the Celts for
a long time. They were skilful smelters and smiths whose huts
and workshops have been discovered under Martinsk�½ vrch.
Also the Daci, or Getae, left some traces in this area. Slovak
history of Nitra dates to the end of the 5
th
century when the first
Slavs arrived to this territory. Already in the first half of the 7
th
century, western sources mention the state formation of Slavs,
Samo’s Empire. Samo’s Empire was a kind of predecessor
of the next state formation – Great Moravia, with the area
of Nitra constituting one of its centres. It has been confirmed
by exceptionally precious documents from the 9
th
century
The Agricultural open-air museum
The Church of St. Emmeram
The Church of St. Emmeram
Nitra Castle
that it was in the period of the Great Moravia Empire that
the foundations of the renowned old Christian Nitra fame were
laid.In the first half of the 9
th
century Nitra was the metropolis
of the Nitra principality, the existence of which is chronicled
in ancient documents. The oldest written proof on Nitra
and the Nitra Principality is from the document “Conversione
Bagoariorum et Carantanorum”, which originated around
the year 871. It is documented here that during his mission
to Pannonia, Adalram, the Archbishop of Salzburg, consecrated
a church on the property of Prince Pribina in Nitrava (Nitra). This
is precious evidence on the origin of the oldest known Christian
church in Central Europe and at the same time it is the oldest
mention of Nitra. To top it off, it is the oldest preserved name
of a city and settlement in the territory of Slovakia. Nitra was
at the peak of its fame during the reign of King Svatopluk. In one
of the most valuable written documents for Slovak history –
a letter of Pope John VIII to Svatopluk, dated 880, “Industriae
tuae”, Svatopluk is referred to as king and the Pope informs him
of the appointment of Viching to the post of Bishop of Nitra.
Nitra probably already at that time had a municipal character
and consisted of five fortified settlements and over twenty
communities with flourishing crafts.

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