![]() In September, she came to Bratislava at the session of the assembly to ask for help in the war with France, Prussia and Germany who denied the heredity of the Habsburgs through the female line. After the end of the Turkish Wars and the uprising of the Estates in the 18th century, Bratislava played a more important role than ever before.The top of its significance and fame was reached during the reign of the Empress Maria Theresia who was crowned in St Martin’s Cathedral in 1741. After the lost battle of Mohacs and the occupation of Buda by the Turks, Bratislava became the capital of the Hungarian Kingdom. Bratislava became a significant fortress at the frontier between the Christian world and territories under Islamic influence. The Turks marched northward and captured the royal site Buda with no resistance. ![]() This catastrophe marked all of Christian Europe for many decades. During the tragic Battle of Mohacs in 1526, King Louis, most of the Hungarian nobility and thousands of soldiers were killed. From the 10th century onwards, it became part of the Principality of Hungary and almost the whole area was part of Pozsony county. The area was also part of the Principality of Nitra and later, in the 9th century, of Great Moravia. The settlements of the present-day Bratislava territory of the 7th century were parts of Samo’s Empire as the earliest form of Slavonic state. The first Slavs came to the Carpathian Basin in the first half of the 5th century. Around 200 BC, the Celtic Boii tribe established an oppidum on the site of today's Bratislava Castle. The first known permanent settlement of the area of today's Bratislava was the Linear Pottery Culture, around 5000 BC in the Neolithic era. ![]() Influenced by the style and technique of the Habans, a now-disappeared Anabaptist community who used to live in the area, it is typically characterised by bold yellows and blues. The most distinctive local style of pottery, known as majolika, is handmade in Modra. For the pick of the crop, the National Collection of Wine in Pezinok sells bottles from its annual selection of Slovakia's best hundred vintages. ![]() Local wine can be purchased from the numerous wineshops (vinotéka in Slovak) in Bratislava as well as local centres like Pezinok and Modra. The products that most characterise the region around Bratislava are wine and ceramics. The region’s central location within the mid-European area, good transport access and the functions of international crossing both in road and railway transport, increasing importance of water and air transport and high rate of economic and social growth are amongst the most important development factors of the Bratislava Region.The Malé Karpaty (Small Carpathians) area is famous for it’s wine, cultural monuments and traditional crafts. Geographically, this is a very valuable location at the historical crossing of trading routes – Danubian and north-south, the so called “Amber Route”. ![]() The region is located in the south-western part of Slovakia, split by the Little Carpathians which start in Bratislava and continue north-eastwards these mountains separate two lowlands, the Záhorie lowland in the west and the fertile Danubian Lowland in the east. It is the richest region in Slovakia and also the smallest of the eight regions of Slovakia. The Bratislava Region is one of the administrative regions of Slovakia. ![]()
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