Rača | |
Settlement Type: | Borough |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Slovakia |
Subdivision Type2: | Region |
Subdivision Type3: | District |
Subdivision Name3: | Bratislava III |
Pushpin Map: | Slovakia |
Pushpin Relief: | y |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location of Rača in Slovakia |
Coordinates: | 48.1333°N 17.1167°W |
Leader Title: | Mayor |
Leader Name: | Michal Drotován |
Established Title: | First mentioned |
Population As Of: | |
Population Density Km2: | auto |
Timezone1: | CET |
Utc Offset1: | +1 |
Timezone1 Dst: | CEST |
Utc Offset1 Dst: | +2 |
Postal Code Type: | Postal code |
Area Code: | - |
Blank Name: | Car plate |
Rača is a borough of Bratislava, Slovakia, in the Bratislava III district.
The name probably comes from the Slavic personal name Radša/Radoslav or the Slavic stem vorč-/vrača (a fence).[1] The name was adopted by Germans as Rechesdorf (literally Rača's village, 1390). The Germanized form had been used even by the Slovaks themselves, e.g., Račissdorf (1914), Račištorf (1920-1946) except for a short period in 1920 when the official name was Raslavice. In 1946, its original name Rača was restored.[2]
Rača was mentioned for the first time in 1296 as a vineyard village under the name villa Racha. In 1946, the village became a borough of Bratislava.