Chynorany | |
Settlement Type: | Municipality |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Slovakia |
Subdivision Type2: | Region |
Subdivision Name2: | Trenčín |
Subdivision Type3: | District |
Subdivision Name3: | Partizánske |
Pushpin Map: | Slovakia Trenčín Region#Slovakia |
Pushpin Relief: | 1 |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location of Chynorany in the Trenčín Region |
Coordinates: | 48.6083°N 18.2667°W |
Established Title: | First mentioned |
Established Date: | 1243 |
Area Total Km2: | 10.35[1] |
Area Total Sq Mi: | 4.00 |
Elevation M: | 175[2] |
Elevation Ft: | 574 |
Population Total: | 2699[3] |
Population Density Km2: | 261.94[4] |
Population Density Sq Mi: | 101.14 |
Postal Code Type: | Postal code |
Postal Code: | 956 33 |
Area Code: | +421 38 |
Blank Name: | Car plate |
Blank Info: | PE |
Website: | www.chynorany.sk |
Chynorany (Hungarian: Kinorány) is a village and municipality in Partizánske District in the Trenčín Region of western Slovakia.[5]
The village is located on the right bank of the river Nitra, approximately in the middle between the towns of Partizánske and Topoľčany. Northwest the terrain curves into the Bojice hillside, following the mountain range of Považský Inovec. To the south and east, behind the river Nitra, rises the mountain range of Tribeč.
Partizánske is 10 km northeast, Topoľčany 12 km southwest and Bánovce nad Bebravou 15 km north from Chynorany.
The name is derived from a duty to guard a local ford at early morning. Slovak: chyn-, chyniť – to pretend, to lie (here also ambush, the word is preserved e.g. in Serbian as hiniti), ran-, raný, ranný – early, morning.[6]
In historical records, the village was first mentioned in 1243.
The municipality lies at an altitude of and covers an area of . It has a population of about 2723 people.
The records for genealogical research are available at the state archive in Nitra (Slovak: Štátny archív v Nitre).