Chrabrany | |
Other Name: | Nyitragaráb |
Settlement Type: | Municipality |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Type1: | Region |
Subdivision Type2: | District |
Subdivision Name2: | Topoľčany District |
Pushpin Map: | Slovakia Nitra Region#Slovakia |
Pushpin Relief: | 1 |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location of Chrabrany in the Nitra Region##Location of Chrabrany in Slovakia |
Coordinates: | 48.53°N 18.15°W |
Established Title: | First mentioned |
Established Date: | 1291 |
Area Footnotes: | [1] |
Area Total Km2: | 7.95 |
Elevation Footnotes: | [2] |
Elevation M: | 159 |
Population Footnotes: | [3] |
Population Total: | 927 |
Timezone1: | CET |
Utc Offset1: | +1 |
Timezone1 Dst: | CEST |
Utc Offset1 Dst: | +2 |
Postal Code Type: | Postal code |
Postal Code: | 955 01 |
Area Code: | +421 38 |
Blank Name: | Car plate |
Blank Info: | TO |
Chrabrany (in Slovak pronounced as /'xrabranɪ/; Hungarian: Nyitragaráb) is a municipality in the Topoľčany District of the Nitra Region, Slovakia.[4] In 2011 it had 763 inhabitants.[5] The village Chrabrany forms a core of municipality. It is situated on the right bank of the Nitra river, three kilometres south of Topolcany.
A settlement has existed on the area of the village since the Prehistoric era and later in the times of Great Moravia; however the first mention of the municipality in written texts dates from 1291. In this period the village was a part of county of Chrabor family, in 1687 of the Hungarian noble family Erdődy (also Erdödy, Erdődi).
Chrabrany is derived from " chrabor, -a, -o, hist. chrabr, adj." meaning "courageous, brave, lionhearted“ (chrabrъ from chorbrь, Slovak: chrabrý, Slovenian: hraber, Serbian, Croatian: hrabar, Czech: chrabrý, Polish: chrobry, Ukrainian: chorobryj etc.);The name probably referred to residents of the village, brave and fearless by defending their rights, property, land or their kind-hearted feudal lord. Original name: in 1291—Hrabor, Chrabor—1773, Chrabrany—1808. The residents probably served their lord as his guards.
On the right bank of Nitra river is located a protected natural phenomenon Belanov kút, which spreads over cadastral units of municipalities Chrabrany, Čeladince and Kovarce on the total area of 2.27 ha. Belanov kút is a picturesque oxbow lake surrounded by different kinds of typical Slovak trees such as willows, poplars, acacias, maples, alder trees and shrubwood (elderberry, buckthorn, etc.) and provides shelter for many protected animals and hydrophilic plants.
The records for genealogical research are available at the state archive "Statny Archiv in Nitra, Slovakia"