# Gajary

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This article is about the place. For the root vegetable Gajar, see [Carrot](/source/Carrot).

**Gajary** (German: *Gayring*; Hungarian: *Gajar*) is a [village](/source/Village) and [municipality](/source/Municipality) in western [Slovakia](/source/Slovakia) close to the town of [Malacky](/source/Malacky) in the [Bratislava region](/source/Bratislava_region). It lies around 40 km (25 statute miles) north-west of Slovakia's capital [Bratislava](/source/Bratislava) close to the Austrian border. The village has around 3500 inhabitants.

The village is an important archaeological site: findings from the [Neolithic](/source/Neolithic) period, [Eneolithic](/source/Eneolithic) period, [Bronze Age](/source/Bronze_Age), early [Slavic](/source/Slavs) period (several Slavic settlements) have been excavated there.

## Names and etymology

The [Slovak](/source/Slovak_language) name *Gajary* (1460 *Gayary*) comes from [German](/source/Germans) personal name [Geier](/source/Geier_(surname)) (1337 *Gaywar*, later German name was *Gairing*). In the 14th century, the village had also the [Hungarian](/source/Hungarian_language) name *Öregház* (*Old House*, 1377 *Eureghaz*), but the name was forgotten and then they used the name of German origin *Gajár*.[2]

## Population

It has a population of people (31 December ).

## Genealogical resources

The records for genealogical research are available at the state archive "Statny Archiv in Bratislava, Slovakia"

- Roman Catholic church records (births/marriages/deaths): 1657-1895 (parish A)

## See also

- [List of municipalities and towns in Slovakia](/source/List_of_municipalities_and_towns_in_Slovakia)

## References

1. ["Základná charakteristika"](http://datacube.statistics.sk/#!/view/sk/VBD_SK_WIN/om5001rr/v_om5001rr_00_00_00_sk) (in Slovak). *www.statistics.sk*. Statistical Office of the Slovak Republic. 2015-04-17. Retrieved 2022-03-31.

1. Varsik, Branislav (1984). *Z osídlenia západného a stredného Slovenska v stredoveku* (in Slovak). Bratislava: Veda, vydavateľstvo Slovenskej akadémie vied. p. 102.

## External links

- [Official page](http://www.gajary.sk)
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20070513023228/http://www.statistics.sk/mosmis/eng/run.html](https://web.archive.org/web/20070513023228/http://www.statistics.sk/mosmis/eng/run.html)
- [[http://www.cisarik.com/0_Gajary_Malacky_BL_Pozsony_Bratislava.html](http://www.cisarik.com/0_Gajary_Malacky_BL_Pozsony_Bratislava.html)**Surnames** of living people in Gajary]

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