Márianosztra is a village in
Pest county,
Hungary
Hungary ( hu, Magyarország ) is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning of the Pannonian Basin, Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Romania to the east and southeast, Serbia to the ...
.
Background
Márianosztra is home to the Pauline monastery of Márianosztra. The monastery was founded by
Louis the Great
Louis I, also Louis the Great ( hu, Nagy Lajos; hr, Ludovik Veliki; sk, Ľudovít Veľký) or Louis the Hungarian ( pl, Ludwik Węgierski; 5 March 132610 September 1382), was King of Hungary and Croatia from 1342 and King of Poland from 1370. ...
in 1352. The town was built around the monastery and named after the
basilica dedicated to Our Lady of Hungary, and is the name comes from the Latin term ''Maria Nostra'' (English: Our Mary)
References
Populated places in Pest County
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