Rača is a borough of

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 ...

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, in the

Bratislava III Bratislava III is an okres (district) of Bratislava in the Bratislava Region of Slovakia. The district includes the boroughs of Nové Mesto, Rača and Vajnory. It has an area of 75 km² and 61,418 inhabitants. It is bordered by the Bra ...

district.

Names and etymology

The name probably comes from the Slavic personal name ''Radša''/''Radoslav'' or the Slavic stem ''vorč-''/''vrača'' (a fence). The name was adopted by Germans as ''Rechesdorf'' (literally Rača's village, 1390). The Germanized form had been used even by the Slovaks themselves, e.g., ''Račissdorf'' (1914), ''Račištorf'' (1920-1946) except for a short period in 1920 when the official name was ''Raslavice''. In 1946, its original name ''Rača'' was restored.

History

Rača was mentioned for the first time in 1296 as a vineyard village under the name ''villa Racha''. In 1946, the village became a borough of Bratislava.

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External links

Borough website
Boroughs of Bratislava Villages in Slovakia merged with towns {{Bratislava-geo-stub