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Horné Orešany ( hu, Felsődiós) is a
village A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town (although the word is often used to describe both hamlets and smaller towns), with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to ...
and
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of the
Trnava District Trnava District ( sk, okres Trnava) is a district in the Trnava Region of western Slovakia. In its present borders the district was established in 1996. Before that date Hlohovec district was a part of it. It comprises the villages around the Trn ...
in the
Trnava region The Trnava Region ( sk, Trnavský kraj, ; hu, Nagyszombati kerület; german: Tyrnauer Landschaftsverband) is one of the eight Slovak administrative regions. It was established in 1996, before which date most of its districts were parts of Brati ...
of
Slovakia Slovakia (; sk, Slovensko ), officially the Slovak Republic ( sk, Slovenská republika, links=no ), is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is bordered by Poland to the north, Ukraine to the east, Hungary to the south, Austria to the s ...
. It is located 16 km from the district capital
Trnava Trnava (, german: Tyrnau; hu, Nagyszombat, also known by other alternative names) is a city in western Slovakia, to the northeast of Bratislava, on the Trnávka river. It is the capital of a ''kraj'' (Trnava Region) and of an '' okres'' (Trna ...
and 48 km from
Bratislava Bratislava (, also ; ; german: Preßburg/Pressburg ; hu, Pozsony) is the Capital city, capital and largest city of Slovakia. Officially, the population of the city is about 475,000; however, it is estimated to be more than 660,000 — approxim ...
. A reservoir, also named Horné Orešany, is located nearby. The village is famous for its wine cultivation. A special type of wine Orešanské červené /The Red one from Orešany/ is a local and national wine speciality.


Famous people

* František Zaťko (1896 – 1984), SDB,
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end
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).KUBANOVIČ, Zlatko: '' Historický náhľad do dejín slovenských saleziánov (Od dona Bosca do roku 1924)''. Bratislava : Don Bosco, 2019. . S. 289 – 290.


See also

*
List of municipalities and towns in Slovakia This is an alphabetical list of the 2,891 Obec, obcí (singular ''obec'', "municipality") in Slovakia.

External links

* http://www.horneoresany.sk * http://www.horesany.host.sk/
of living people in Horne Oresany
Villages and municipalities in Trnava District Hungarian German communities {{Trnava-geo-stub