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[[File:Svatopluk I.jpg|250px|thumb|right|[[Svatopluk I|Szvatopluk]]]]
'''Bánhida''' (in German:  ''Weinhild'') is the oldest quarter of the city of [[Tatabánya]] in north-western [[Hungary]]. Inhabited since ancient times, excavations in this area have uncovered finds  from the [[Bronze Age]] 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 (notary of Béla III)|Anonymus]]: [[Árpád]], the second Grand Prince of the Magyars, destroyed the army of [[Svatopluk I|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{{who|date=October 2015}} ancestors.
[[File:Szelim-barlang-Cave.jpg|250px|thumb|right|Szelim cave]]
In the{{which|date=October 2015}} 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, Hungary|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{{who|date=October 2015}} successful export item, beef.
In the 16th century the [[Ottoman wars in Europe|Ottomans]] occupied the area (''v. tale of [[Szelim cave]]'').
Around this time the inhabitants became [[Protestantism|Protestants]]. Later, (in the 18th century) its [[Feudalism|feudal]] lords, the [[House of Esterházy|Esterházys]] populated the area with [[Roman Catholic Church|Roman Catholic]] [[Slovaks|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==
<gallery class="center">
Image:Szelim-bg-north-Cave.jpg|[[Szelim cave]]
Image:Turul-Tb-front.jpg |[[Turul]]
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
</gallery>
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