Prince Pribina - the ruler of the Slavic tribes in what is now south-western Slovakia. Nitransk� and then Blatensk� prince.

Pribinova Date of birth is not known, nor was it demonstrated to which the then genera belonged. It is certain that in the year 833, when he was attacked from the throne of the deposed Great Moravian Prince Mojm�r I., acted as ruler of the Principality of Nitra.

Pribina kept good relations with the eastern kingdom and tolerated on its territory Frankish Christian mission. Being alone was a pagan left in Nitra build the first church, which was consecrated Archbishop of Salzburg Adalram.

After Mojm�rova armed intervention is Pribina resorted to Franks. Asylum gave him Ratbod Earl, who lived in Tulln and managed Avar and Carinthian mark belonging to East Francia. At the behest of King Louis the German Pribina baptized and then came under its administration part of Pannonia. In the marshy area near the river Zala, he built the castle Mosapurk (Blatnohrad, stood near today's Hungarian community Zalav�r), where Blatensky ruled principality. Pribina also maintained an alliance with the eastern kingdom, but that the Moravians considered a threat, as they were with the Frankish King Louis II. Germans in the war. Second Great Moravian Prince Rastislav, probably for this reason, attacked Pribinu and relaxed place handpicked his son Koce�a. It is assumed that Pribina died in combat. In 1989 in Ko�ice unveiled its 6.6 meter high bronze statue.