{{Infobox Slovak place | name = Vráble | native_name = | other_name = | settlement_type = Municipality <!-- images, nickname, motto --> | image_skyline = Verebély templom.JPG | image_caption = Church of the Virgin Mary | image_flag = Vrable-nitra-flag.svg | image_shield = Coat of Arms of Vráble.svg | motto = | nickname = | etymology = <!-- location --> | subdivision_type1 = Region | subdivision_name1 = {{flag|Nitra Region}} | subdivision_type2 = District | subdivision_name2 = Nitra District <!-- maps and coordinates --> | image_map = | map_caption = | pushpin_map = Slovakia Nitra Region#Slovakia | pushpin_relief = 1 | pushpin_map_caption = Location of Vráble in the Nitra Region##Location of Vráble in Slovakia | coordinates = {{coord|48|14|27|N|18|18|31|E|display=inline,title}} | coordinates_footnotes = <!-- government type, leaders --> | leader_title = Mayor | leader_name = Viktor Németh <!-- established --> | established_title = First mentioned | established_date = 1265 <!-- area --> | area_total_sq_mi = | area_land_sq_mi = | area_water_sq_mi = <!-- elevation --> | elevation_footnotes = <ref name="base_info">{{Cite web |url=http://datacube.statistics.sk/#!/view/sk/VBD_SK_WIN/om5001rr/v_om5001rr_00_00_00_sk |title=Základná charakteristika |language=sk |date=2015-04-17 |website=www.statistics.sk |publisher= Statistical Office of the Slovak Republic|access-date=2022-03-31}}</ref> | elevation_m = 144 | population_density_sq_mi= | population_demonym = <!-- postal codes, area code --> | postal_code_type = Postal code | postal_code = 952 01<ref name="base_info"/> | area_code_type = | area_code = +421 37<ref name="base_info"/> | geocode = | iso_code = |registration_plate = NR <!-- website, footnotes --> | website = [http://www.vrable.sk www.vrable.sk] | footnotes = }} '''Vráble''' ({{Audio|Vráble (Slovak pronunciation).ogg|pronunciation}}) is a small town in the Nitra District, Nitra Region, western Slovakia.
==Etymology== The name derives from ''vrábeľ'' - a Slovak dialect name of sparrow (''vrabec'').<ref name="varsik">{{cite book |first=Varsik |last=Branislav |author-link=Branislav Varsik| title= Kontinuita medzi veľkomoravskými Slovienmi a stredovekými severouhorskými Slovanmi (Slovákmi) |chapter=Osídlenie Novohradu a Ipeľskej kotliny vo svetle miestnych názvov |publisher=Veda |year=1994 |page=112 |isbn=80-224-0175-7 |language=sk}}</ref>
==Geography== {{Slovak municipality/geo|144|<ref name="base_info"/>}}
It is located in the Danubian Hills on the Žitava river, about {{convert|15|km|mi|abbr=off}} south-east-east from Nitra. The cadastral area of the town has an altitude from {{convert|140|to|240|m|ft|abbr=off}} ASL. There's a small dam called ''Vodná nádrž Vráble'' west of the town.
The town has three parts: Vráble proper, and the former villages of Dyčka and Horný Ohaj (both annexed 1975).
==History== The oldest evidence of the settlement of Vráble comes from the Neolithic age (6000-2000 BC). The first written reference is from 1265 as ''Verebel''. In Vráble, there was the oldest post-station. The city kept an agricultural character in the 19th and 20th centuries. Economic development has influenced the architecture of the city. Before the establishment of independent Czechoslovakia in 1918, Vráble was part of Bars County within the Kingdom of Hungary. From 1939 to 1945, it was again part of Hungary as a result of the First Vienna Award.
== Population == {{Slovak municipality|pop}}
It has a population of {{Slovak municipality|p}} people (31 December {{Slovak municipality|y}}).{{Slovak municipality|P}}
=== Ethnicity === {{Slovak municipality|etno}}
=== Religion === {{Slovak municipality|relig}}
The town had Hungarian majority in the 17th century according to the Turkish tax census.<ref name="Kocsis">Károly Kocsis, Eszter Kocsisné Hodosi, Ethnic Geography of the Hungarian Minorities in the Carpathian Basin, Simon Publications LLC, 1998, p. 46 [https://books.google.com/books?id=-zZ_NVM9mNEC&q=%22german+ethnic+majority+until%22&pg=PA47]</ref><br /> According to the 2001 census, the town had 9,493 inhabitants. 93.32% of inhabitants were Slovaks, 4.69% Hungarians, 0.78% Roma and 0.55% Czechs.<ref name="statistics">{{cite web | title = Municipal Statistics | publisher = Statistical Office of the Slovak republic | url = http://www.statistics.sk/mosmis/eng/run.html | access-date = 2007-12-15 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20071116010355/http://www.statistics.sk/mosmis/eng/run.html <!-- Bot retrieved archive --> |archive-date = 2007-11-16}}</ref> The religious make-up was 88.41% Roman Catholics, 8.53% people with no religious affiliation and 0.62% Lutherans.<ref name="statistics"/>
==Fidvár archaeological site== {{See also|Únětice culture|Mad'arovce culture}} One of the largest urban agglomerations of the Bronze Age in Europe was found at Fidvár near Vráble.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sme.sk/c/3234127/Vrable-su-unikatom-Stareho-kontinentu.html| title=Vráble sú unikátom Starého kontinentu}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://uniba.sk/en/news-detail/back_to_page/univerzita-komenskeho/article/the-significant-vrable-fidvar-archeaological-site-was-home-to-more-than-one-thousand-people-from-v/ |title=The significant Vrable-Fidvar site |website=Comenius University Bratislava}}</ref> The area of 20 hectares makes it larger than the contemporary Mycenae and Troy. The settlement was inhabited by about 1,000 people and buildings were built around streets. Three ditches strengthened the fortifications. The site is also the northernmost known tell in Central Europe dating from the Early Bronze Age. It was an important centre for the exploitation of nearby gold and tin deposits.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/vfg/forschung/projekte/fidvar-near-vrable-slovakia/ |title=Fidvár near Vráble - Archaeological Investigations at a Central Place of the Early Bronze Age on the Fringes of the Western Carpathians in Slovakia 2007-08 |website=Universität Würzburg}}</ref> The settlement is attributed to the Únětice culture and Mad'arovce culture.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Toth |first1=Peter |url=https://www.academia.edu/1276055 |title=Collapse or Continuity? Environment and development of Bronze Age human landscapes |last2=Gresky |first2=Julia |date=2012 |publisher=Verlag Dr. Rudolf Habelt GmbH |editor-last1=Kneisel |editor-first1=J. |pages=111–129 |chapter=The rise and decline of the Early Bronze Age settlement Fidvár near Vráble, Slovakia}}</ref>
==Twin towns — sister cities== {{See also|List of twin towns and sister cities in Slovakia}}
Vráble is twinned with:<ref>{{cite web |title=Partnerské mestá|url=http://www.vrable.sk/partnerske-mesta.phtml?id3=57073|website=vrable.sk|publisher=Vráble|language=sk|access-date=2019-09-05}}</ref> *{{flagicon|FRA}} Andouillé, France *{{flagicon|HUN}} Csurgó, Hungary *{{flagicon|SRB}} Nova Varoš, Serbia
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== * [http://www.vrable.sk Official website] {{in lang|sk}}
{{Nitra District}} {{Authority control}}
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