Gajary Gajar
Municipality
Main street with the church
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Coordinates: 48°28′N 16°55′E / 48.47°N 16.92°E / 48.47; 16.92
Country	Slovakia
Region	Bratislava Region
District	Malacky District
First mentioned	1373
Area [1]
• Total	50.83 km2 (19.63 sq mi)
Elevation [3]	150 m (490 ft)
Population  (2024)[2]
• Total	3,215
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code	900 61[3]
Area code	+421 34[3]
Vehicle registration plate (until 2022)	MA
Website	www.gajary.sk

Gajary (German: Gayring; Hungarian: Gajar) is a village and municipality in western Slovakia close to the town of Malacky in the Bratislava region. It lies around 40 km (25 statute 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.

The municipality lies at an altitude of 150 metres (490 ft)^[3] and covers an area of 50.83 km² (19.63 sq mi) (2024).^[4]

The Slovak name Gajary (1460 Gayary) comes from German personal name Geier (1337 Gaywar, later German name was Gairing). In the 14th century, the village had also the Hungarian name Öregház (Old House, 1377 Eureghaz), but the name was forgotten and then they used the name of German origin Gajár.^[5]

It has a population of 3215 people (31 December 2024).^[7]

In year 2021 was 3163 people by ethnicity 2735 as Slovak, 371 as Not found out, 40 as Romanian, 37 as Romani, 28 as Czech, 7 as Other, 5 as Hungarian, 3 as Vietnamese, 2 as Polish, 2 as Moravian, 1 as Turkish, 1 as Serbian, 1 as Rusyn, 1 as Russian, 1 as Austrian, 1 as German and 1 as Croatian.

Note on population

The difference between the population numbers above and in the census (here and below) is that the population numbers above are mostly made up of permanent residents, etc.; and the census should indicate the place where people actually mainly live. For example, a student is a citizen of a village because he has permanent residence there (he lived there as a child and has parents), but most of the time he studies at a university in the city.

In year 2021 was 3163 people by religion 1840 from Roman Catholic Church, 838 from None, 365 from Not found out, 32 from Evangelical Church, 27 from Christian Congregations in Slovakia, 20 from Greek Catholic Church, 7 from Eastern Orthodox Church, 6 from Other and not ascertained christian church, 5 from Ad hoc movements, 4 from Other, 3 from Calvinist Church, 3 from Paganism and natural spirituality, 3 from United Methodist Church, 3 from Buddhism, 3 from Apostolic Church, 1 from Jehovah's Witnesses, 1 from Islam, 1 from Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and 1 from Baptists Church.

The records for genealogical research are available at the state archive "Statny Archiv in Bratislava, Slovakia"

• Roman Catholic church records (births/marriages/deaths): 1657-1895 (parish A)

• List of municipalities and towns in Slovakia

Media related to Gajary at Wikimedia Commons

• Official page
• https://web.archive.org/web/20070513023228/http://www.statistics.sk/mosmis/eng/run.html
• Surnames of living people in Gajary