| Vráble | |
| Settlement Type: | Municipality |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Type1: | Region |
| Subdivision Type2: | District |
| Subdivision Name2: | Nitra District |
| 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: | 48.2408°N 18.3086°W |
| Leader Title: | Mayor |
| Leader Name: | Viktor Németh |
| Established Title: | First mentioned |
| Established Date: | 1265 |
| Area Footnotes: | [1] |
| Area Total Km2: | 38.31 |
| Elevation Footnotes: | [2] |
| Elevation M: | 144 |
| Population Footnotes: | [3] |
| Population Total: | 8432 |
| Population Density Km2: | auto |
| Timezone1: | CET |
| Utc Offset1: | +1 |
| Timezone1 Dst: | CEST |
| Utc Offset1 Dst: | +2 |
| Postal Code Type: | Postal code |
| Postal Code: | 952 01 |
| Area Code: | +421 37 |
| Blank Name: | Car plate |
| Blank Info: | NR |
| Website: | www.vrable.sk |
Vráble is a small town in the Nitra District, Nitra Region, western Slovakia.
The name derives from vrábeľ - a Slovak dialect name of sparrow (vrabec).[4]
It is located in the Danubian Hills on the Žitava river, about 15km (09miles) south-east-east from Nitra. The cadastral area of the town has an altitude from 140to 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).
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.
The town had Hungarian majority in the 17th century according to the Turkish tax census.[5]
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.[6] The religious make-up was 88.41% Roman Catholics, 8.53% people with no religious affiliation and 0.62% Lutherans.[6]
One of the largest urban agglomerations of the Bronze Age in Europe was found at Fidvár near Vráble.[7] [8] 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.[9] The settlement is attributed to the Unetice culture and subsequent Mad'arovce culture.[10]
See also: List of twin towns and sister cities in Slovakia.
Andouillé, France
Csurgó, Hungary
Nova Varoš, Serbia