Brezová pod Bradlom (German: Birkenhain; Hungarian: Berezó) is a town in the Myjava District, Trenčín Region, western Slovakia, at the western foothills of the Little Carpathians, in the Myjavské Kopanice region.
The territory of Brezová pod Bradlom appears for the first time in written records in 1262.
On 7 April 1945, the Red Army dislodged the Wehrmacht from Brezová pod Bradlom and it was once again part of Czechoslovakia.
[4] The monumental tomb of Milan Rastislav Štefánik is located on the Bradlo hill (543 metres (1,781 ft), approximately three kilometres from the town, on the road to Košariská.
Brezová pod Bradlom is twinned with:[5] The records for genealogical research are available at the state archive "Štátny archív in Bratislava, Slovakia" Media related to Brezová pod Bradlom at Wikimedia Commons