Bánhida (in German: ''Weinhild'') is the oldest quarter of the city of

Tatabánya Tatabánya (; german: Totiserkolonie; sk, Banská Stará) is a City with county rights, city with county rights of 64,305 inhabitants in northwestern Hungary, in the Central Transdanubian region. It is the capital of Komárom-Esztergom County. L ...

in north-western

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. Inhabited since ancient times, excavations in this area have uncovered finds from the

Bronze Age The Bronze Age is a historic period, lasting approximately from 3300 BC to 1200 BC, characterized by the use of bronze, the presence of writing in some areas, and other early features of urban civilization. The Bronze Age is the second pri ...

and the Roman era. It is hypothesized that the name derives from a former landowner named Bán who owned a bridge across the Rákos River (now called Által-ér).

Bánhida in the middle age

By chronicle of

Anonymus Anonymus is the Latin spelling of anonymous, traditionally used by scholars in the humanities for any ancient writer whose name is not known, or to a manuscript of their work. Such writers have left valuable historical or literary records through ...

Árpád Árpád (; 845 – 907) was the head of the confederation of the Magyar tribes at the turn of the 9th and 10th centuries. He might have been either the sacred ruler or ''kende'' of the Hungarians, or their military leader or '' gy ...

, the second Grand Prince of the Magyars, destroyed the army of Szvatopluk here. The legend was immortalized by Árpád Feszty in a huge painting on the thousandth anniversary of the event. The largest bird statue of Central Europe, the Turul monument, was also erected in honor of the millennium. The work of Gyula Donáth, which stands on Stone-Hill, above the city, refers to the totem animal of our ancestors. Szelim-barlang-Cave

In the diplomas the name of village is mentioned first in 1288. In the later diplomas the village is in the service of castles Vitány and Tata. In the medieval diplomas, two villages are consistently mentioned: Bánhyda maior and Bánhyda minor. The name of Mészáros (butcher) street refers to the ancient transportation road of our successful export item, beef. In the 16th century the

Ottomans The Ottoman Turks ( tr, Osmanlı Türkleri), were the Turkic founding and sociopolitically the most dominant ethnic group of the Ottoman Empire ( 1299/1302–1922). Reliable information about the early history of Ottoman Turks remains scarce, ...

occupied the area (''v. tale of

Szelim cave The Szelim cave ( Hungarian: ''Szelim-barlang'' or ''Szelim-lyuk'' (Szelim hole), ''Bánhidai nagy barlang'' (Bánhidian big cave), ''Eperjes-barlang, Szemi-luki, Szemi-lyuka, Szelimluk barlang, Bánhidai-zsomboly, Szent Vit-barlang'') is locate ...

''). Around this time the inhabitants became

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. Later, (in the 18th century) its

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lords, the Esterházys populated the area with

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Slovak settlers.

Opening of the mines, the loss of the independence

The opening of the mines at the end of the 19th century caused significant changes in the character and life of the village. During the industrialization wave which took over the country after World War II several Hungarian towns were developed into large industrial cities. The four villages (Tatabánya, Alsógalla, Felsőgalla, Bánhida) were united on October 1, 1947, under the name Tatabánya, and it was elevated to town status.

Gallery

Image:Szelim-bg-north-Cave.jpg,

Image:Turul-Tb-front.jpg ,

Turul The Turul is a mythological bird of prey, mostly depicted as a Falcon, in Hungarian tradition and Turkic tradition, and a national symbol of Hungarians. Origin The Turul is probably based on a large falcon. The Hungarian language word ''tur ...

Image:Bánhida1.JPG, Roman Catholic Church – St. Michael Image:I. világháborús emlékmű (Görömbey Imre, 1927), Bánhida5.jpg, First World War monument Image:2. világháborús emlékmű, Bánhida.jpg, Second World War monument Image:Bánhidsky slovensky dom.jpg, Bánhidian Slovak house

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Banhida Tatabánya Former municipalities of Hungary