Olšnica

Olšnica lies in the Prekmurje plain near the Mura, in the western lands of the Kingdom of Hungary. The settlement appears in a document of 1297 as Belmura and in later records as Murazombatha. Its Hungarian name refers to Saturday, the day on which a weekly fair was held; the older Slovene name Olšnica also gave rise to the German Olsnitz. The market town belonged to Vas County and formed part of a region where Slovene and Hungarian communities met.