The flat land around Holíč has been lived on for a very long time. Archaeologists find traces here from the Neolithic — the late Stone Age, the time of the first farmers — through the Bronze Age and on into the Roman period, when the empire's frontier ran along the Danube not far to the south and traders carried goods north up the Morava valley. None of these people wrote a word about themselves, so everything we know about them has come out of the ground. What kept drawing them was exactly what later drew soldiers and emperors: a river you can cross and a plain you can farm.Rovina okolo Holíča je osídlená veľmi dlho. Archeológovia tu nachádzajú stopy od neolitu — mladšej doby kamennej, čias prvých roľníkov — cez dobu bronzovú až po dobu rímsku, keď hranica ríše viedla po Dunaji neďaleko na juh a obchodníci vozili tovar na sever údolím Moravy. Nikto z týchto ľudí o sebe nenapísal ani slovo, takže všetko, čo o nich vieme, pochádza zo zeme. Priťahovalo ich presne to, čo neskôr vojakov a cisárov: rieka, ktorá sa dá prebrodiť, a rovina, ktorá sa dá obrábať.
