Vinosady
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Vinosady is a village
Village
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 and municipality
Municipality
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 in western Slovakia
Slovakia
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 in Pezinok District
Pezinok District
Pezinok District is a district inthe Bratislava Region of western Slovakia. Until 1918, the district was part of the Hungarian county of Pressburg.-Municipalities:*Báhoň*Budmerice*Častá*Doľany*Dubová*Jablonec*Limbach...

 in the Bratislava Region
Bratislava Region
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, on the foothills of the Little Carpathians
Little Carpathians
The Little Carpathians are a low, about 100 km long, mountain range, part of the Carpathian Mountains. The mountains are situated in Western Slovakia, covering the area from Bratislava to Nové Mesto nad Váhom, a very small part called Hundsheimer Berge is situated south of Devín Gate in...

.

History

In historical records
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 the village, which was made of two independent parts was first mentioned in 1208, although it was inhabited lot sooner, in the 9th century, as the Great Moravia
Great Moravia
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n site was discovered near the village. At the end of the 13th century, two village arose: Trlinka and Kučišdorf, which were closely linked to their bigger towns, Pezinok
Pezinok
Pezinok is a city in southwestern Slovakia. It is roughly northeast of Bratislava and has a population of 21,334 .Pezinok lies near the Little Carpathians and thrives mainly on viticulture and agriculture, as well as on brick making and ceramic production.-History:From the second half of the 10th...

 and Modra
Modra
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. In 1948, names were slovakized
Slovakization
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: Trlinka to Malá Tŕna and Kučišdorf to Veľká Tŕna, until the two merged in 1964 to one village named by its current name, Vinosady, which refers to rich vineyard
Vineyard
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 tradition in this region. The merged village got its own coat-of-arms in 1998.

Geography

The village lies at an altitude of 179 metres and covers an area of 5.15km². It has a population of 1049 people. The village is located 26 km from Bratislava
Bratislava
Bratislava is the capital of Slovakia and, with a population of about 431,000, also the country's largest city. Bratislava is in southwestern Slovakia on both banks of the Danube River. Bordering Austria and Hungary, it is the only national capital that borders two independent countries.Bratislava...

and 3 km from Pezinok.

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