The late seventeenth century in this valley was not mainly about Turks. It was about Hungarian nobles in revolt against the Habsburg emperor — the kuruc risings of Thököly and later Rákóczi — and about armies of both sides living off the villages they marched through. Prievidza next door was burned by kuruc insurgents in 1673. The Pálffys, who held Bojnice, were one of the great imperial families of the kingdom, so this was not a neutral place to live. For ordinary people the difference between the two sides was often only which army arrived first.Koniec sedemnásteho storočia nebol v tejto doline hlavne o Turkoch. Bol o uhorských šľachticoch vo vzbure proti habsburskému cisárovi — o kuruckých povstaniach Imricha Tököliho a neskôr Františka II. Rákociho — a o vojskách oboch strán, ktoré sa živili z dedín, cez ktoré prechádzali. Susednú Prievidzu vypálili kuruci roku 1673. Pálfiovci, ktorí držali Bojnice, patrili k najväčším cisárskym rodom krajiny, takže toto nebolo neutrálne miesto na život. Pre obyčajných ľudí bol rozdiel medzi oboma stranami často len v tom, ktoré vojsko prišlo prvé.
