Bíňa

Slovakia, Slovakia

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Bíňa is a village in southwestern Slovakia's Nitra Region near the Hron River, first mentioned in 1135 and known for its rich archaeological layers from Neolithic times through Roman and Slavic periods, including a possible Roman fort site linked to Emperor Marcus Aurelius's Marcomannic Wars diary in 172 AD.

The village merges historic Malá and Veľká Bíňa and boasts the Roman Catholic Church of the Virgin Mary, a late Romanesque monastic structure from the early 13th century founded by the Hont-Pázmány noble family as a Premonstratensian abbey with unique Roman and early Gothic features.

Surviving Turkish occupations in the 16th-17th centuries before Polish troops razed most of the monastery in 1683, it now preserves church remnants like a small chapel and medieval sanctuary amid its rural Podunajská lowland setting.