Márianosztra is a village in Pest county,

Hungary Hungary is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning much 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 south, Croatia and ...

Background

Márianosztra is home to the Pauline monastery of Márianosztra. The monastery was founded by

Louis the Great Louis I, also Louis the Great (; ; ) or Louis the Hungarian (; 5 March 132610 September 1382), was King of Hungary and Croatia from 1342 and King of Poland from 1370. He was the first child of Charles I of Hungary and his wife, Elizabeth of P ...

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 {{Pest-geo-stub