Malé Leváre () is a

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and

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in western

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in Malacky District in the

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, near the border with

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. It was mentioned for the first time in deed from the year 1377, issued by the king Louis I. of Hungary. Village is dominated by renaissance, baroque rebuilt

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church of Assumption of the Holy Virgin. In the area of the village there is also a baroque chapel, and bunkers, which were built as part of Czechoslovak border fortification in 1938. During the

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, the

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was leading near the village and the border was guarded by soldiers.

References

Villages and municipalities in Malacky District {{Bratislava-geo-stub