Trenč&iacute;n, West Slovakia by jandudas on Flickr.Via Flickr:
Typical medieval fortified castle which is situated on a rock above the city. Trenč&iacute;n is best known for a Roman inscription on the castle rock from 179, stemming from the era of the Marcomannic Wars, a series of wars between the Roman Empire and the Germanic Quadi. It denotes the site as Laugaricio and is the northernmost evidence of the presence of Roman soldiers in central Europe. Under its Greek name Leukaristos, Trenč&iacute;n was also depicted on the Ptolemy world map (about 150 AD). The Trenč&iacute;n Castle, founded plausibly during the Great Moravian era, became the administrative center of Trenč&iacute;n county by the end of the 11th century. 
As one of the few stone castles in the Kingdom of Hungary it resisted the disastrous invasion of Mongols in 1241. In 1263 Trenč&iacute;n was in the possession of Jakab Cseszneky royal swordbearer, but in 1302 King Wenceslas I took it away from the Cseszneky brothers because they were supporting his rival Charles Robert, and donated it to Maty&aacute;s Cs&aacute;k. Between 1302 and 1321 the castle was the seat of the powerful magnate Maty&aacute;s Cs&aa