Dobrá Voda is a
municipality
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The term ''municipality' ...
of
Trnava District
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in the
Trnava region
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of
Slovakia
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.
Cultural sites
A
Roman Catholic
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church
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from 1820 and a
Holy Trinity
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chapel
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from 1730 are located in the village.
The ruins of the
Dobrá Voda castle are located in the
Little Carpathians
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in Dobrá Voda.
Notable people
The most important poet of the Bernolák's group.
Ján Hollý
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Ján Hollý (contemporary orthography: Gán Hollí; 24 March 1785, Borský Mikuláš, Bur-Szent-Miklos – 14 April 1849, Dobrá Voda, Trnava District, Jókő) was a Slovakia, Slovak poet and translator. He was the first greater Slovak ...
, lived and worked during the last years of his life (1843–1849) in Dobrá Voda.
Earthquakes
The village of Dobrá Voda was the
seismologically most active region of Slovakia in the 20th century. In 1906 this resulted in the heaviest
earthquake
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of that century in Slovakia happening in this region.
See also
*
List of municipalities and towns in Slovakia
This is an alphabetical list of the 2,891 (singular , "municipality") in Slovakia. They are grouped into 79 Districts of Slovakia, districts (, singular ), in turn grouped into 8 Regions of Slovakia, regions (, singular ); articles on individu ...
References
External links
*https://web.archive.org/web/20071116010355/http://www.statistics.sk/mosmis/eng/run.html
Surnames of living people in Dobra Voda
Villages and municipalities in Trnava District
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