History

Geologists say that the island was created during the Miocene period of the Aquitaine era. The plains and the marshes of the region were covered by a huge water surface, called the Pannonian Sea, from which only the granite massifs of the Carpathians, here and there an island or group of islands emerged. The Danube was shorter in those times, flowing into the Pannonian Sea around the present location of Bratislava or Vienna. The brooks and rivers carried large amounts of mud, pebbles and other sediment, while slowing down gradually at the mouth, and the alluvia created deltas and islands. It...

Watermills have been enriching the scenery of riverside towns and villages in Europe for centuries. These mills originated in Roman times and have been present in our country since the 12th century. On the territory of the current Slovak Republic one can find a significant number of them on the banks of the Danube and Váh rivers. In the 2nd half of the 19th century over one hundred water mills were still operating in 21 settlements (e.g. 15 in Vojka nad Dunajom (Hun: Vajka), 14 in Bodíky (Hun: Bodak), 13 in Šamorín (Hun: Somorja), and moreover there had also been watermills in settlements...