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Brestovany is a municipality of Trnava District in the Trnava region of Slovakia. Its population is about 2000 inhabitants. The name of the village can be derived from the Slovak name of elm tree (“brest”) which used to occur in that area a lot.^[1]

History

Brestovany was first mentioned in a document called Zoborská listina from 1113. It is referred-to as villa Bristem. In 1241 the village had to face invasion of Tatars. Another difficulty came in 1271 when Czech army conquered Trnava and its surrounding for some time. Brestovany was hereditary property of the town Trnava since 1280. Its inhabitants were living as serfs till 1848 when serfdom was abolished. In 1533 the village was invaded by the Turks, who plundered and burned it out. In 18. century the Chapel of Saint Martin and the Church of Saint John the Baptist were built there. In 1811 and 1818 fires seriously destroyed large parts of the village. ^[2] Since 1824 Brestovany belonged to Polish count Jozef Saryusz Zamoyski, who had built mansion in classicistic style there. Later it belonged to another Polish noble Albert Wielopolski. The noblemen are buried at the local cemetery in. There is an elementary school in the building of the former aristocratic house now.

Culture and social life

There are several remarkable historic buildings in the village: baroque Chapel of Saint Martin (1767), baroque church (1772) and the classicistic manor house with large park from 1826. There are organizations such as association of hunters, society of carrier-pigeon breeders, volunteer fire brigade, sport club and several choirs.