Malinovo (, ) is a

village A village is a human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand. Although villages are often located in rural areas, the term urban v ...

and

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in western

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Senec District Senec District (''okres Senec'') is a district in the Bratislava Region of western Slovakia. It was established in 1996. The district is largely a bedroom community for Bratislava and is also known for its recreational possibilities, foremost the ...

in the

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Names and etymology

The original name comes from a Germanic personal name

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. The earliest mentions are ''Yberhart'' (1209), ''Ybrehart'' (1216), ''Eburhardi'' (1260). In 1946, the village was renamed to ''Malinovo'' in honor of Soviet Marshal

Rodion Malinovsky Rodion Yakovlevich Malinovsky (; ; – 31 March 1967) was a Soviet military commander and Marshal of the Soviet Union. He served as Minister of Defence of the Soviet Union from 1957 to 1967, during which he oversaw the strengthening of the Sov ...

. ''Éberhárd'' is still the official name in the language of the Hungarian minority.

Geography

The municipality lies at an altitude of 128 metres and covers an area of 8.829 km².

History

In historical records the village was first mentioned in 1209. In the 13th century, the village was inhabited by

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who lived there until the 16th century. Malinovo was an important port on the

Little Danube The Little Danube (, , ) is a branch of the river Danube in Slovakia. It splits from the main river in Bratislava, and flows more or less parallel to the Danube until it flows into the river Váh in Kolárovo. It is long and its basin size is . ...

where also river tolls were charged. In 1548, the village was already completely abandoned and re-settled again. In 1773, it was already mostly Hungarian. The old village castle was acquired in June 1763 by Count György Apponyi of the

Apponyi family The House of Apponyi, also known as Apponyi de Nagy-Appony, was a prominent and powerful Hungarian family of the high Upper nobility (Kingdom of Hungary), upper nobility of the Kingdom of Hungary, whose members remained notable even after the king ...

. It was rebuilt into its current form by the Apponyis in the early 19th century. Statesman

György Apponyi Count György Apponyi de Nagyappony (29 December 1808 – 28 February 1899) was a Hungarian conservative politician, who served as Lord Chancellor of Hungary from 1846 to 1848. He was a member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences since 1858 ...

died in the castle in 1899, and his son

Albert Apponyi Albert György Gyula Mária Apponyi, Count of Nagyappony (; 29 May 18467 February 1933) was a Hungarian aristocrat and politician. He was a board member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Chairman of from 1921 to 1933, and a List of Knights ...

often received guests there. In 1923 it became the home of the State Agricultural School of

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. It is still home to a Horticultural School named after

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( cs). After

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, it became a part of

. Between 1938 and 1945, through the

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, Malinovo became a part of

Miklós Horthy Miklós Horthy de Nagybánya (18 June 1868 – 9 February 1957) was a Hungarian admiral and statesman who was the Regent of Hungary, regent of the Kingdom of Hungary (1920–1946), Kingdom of Hungary Hungary between the World Wars, during the ...

's Hungary . After

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, the Hungarian population was partially expelled and replaced by Slovaks from Hungary.

Point of Interest

The

Apponyi The House of Apponyi, also known as Apponyi de Nagy-Appony, was a prominent and powerful Hungarian family of the high upper nobility of the Kingdom of Hungary, whose members remained notable even after the kingdom's dismemberment in the successor ...

castle is still standing in a public park, but (as of late 2019) in need of renovation.

Demographics

According to the 2011

census A census (from Latin ''censere'', 'to assess') is the procedure of systematically acquiring, recording, and calculating population information about the members of a given Statistical population, population, usually displayed in the form of stati ...

, the municipality had 1,861 inhabitants. 1,158 of inhabitants were

Slovaks The Slovaks ( (historical Sloveni ), singular: ''Slovák'' (historical: ''Sloven'' ), feminine: ''Slovenka'' , plural: ''Slovenky'') are a West Slavic ethnic group and nation native to Slovakia who share a common ancestry, culture, history ...

, 625

Hungarians Hungarians, also known as Magyars, are an Ethnicity, ethnic group native to Hungary (), who share a common Culture of Hungary, culture, Hungarian language, language and History of Hungary, history. They also have a notable presence in former pa ...

, 13

Czechs The Czechs (, ; singular Czech, masculine: ''Čech'' , singular feminine: ''Češka'' ), or the Czech people (), are a West Slavs, West Slavic ethnic group and a nation native to the Czech Republic in Central Europe, who share a common Bohemia ...

and 65 others and unspecified.

References

External links

Official page
*https://web.archive.org/web/20071217080336/http://www.statistics.sk/mosmis/eng/run.html Villages and municipalities in Senec District {{Bratislava-geo-stub