Gajary

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This article is about the place. For the root vegetable Gajar, see Carrot.

Malacky District in the Bratislava region

Gajary (German: Gayring) is a village and municipality in western Slovakia close to the town of Malacky in the Bratislava region. It lies around 40 km (25 statue miles) north-west of Slovakia's capital Bratislava close to the Austrian border. The village has around 3500 inhabitants.

The village is an important archaeological site: findings from the Neolithic period, Eneolithic period, Bronze Age, early Slavic period (several Slavic settlements) have been excavated there. Ing. Ján Kubíček (1922 - 2003) former head of Finance at Slovakia's Ministry of Internal Affairs was born there.