Komárno ( pronunciation (help·info); Hungarian: Komárom, colloquially Révkomárom, Öregkomárom, Öreg-Komárom, German: Komorn) is a town in Slovakia at the Danube and the Váh rivers. Komárno was formed from part of a historical town in Hungary situated on both banks of the Danube. Following World War I, the border of the newly created Czechoslovakia cut the historical, unified town in half, creating two new towns. The smaller part, based on the for...
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Komárno ( pronunciation (help·info); Hungarian: Komárom, colloquially Révkomárom, Öregkomárom, Öreg-Komárom, German: Komorn) is a town in Slovakia at the Danube and the Váh rivers. Komárno was formed from part of a historical town in Hungary situated on both banks of the Danube. Following World War I, the border of the newly created Czechoslovakia cut the historical, unified town in half, creating two new towns. The smaller part, based on the former suburb of Újszőny, is in present-day Hungary as Komárom (the historical Hungarian town had the same name). Komárno and Komárom are connected by a bridge, and the two towns used to be a border crossing between Slovakia and Hungary until border checks were lifted due to the Schengen Area rules.
Komárno is Slovakia's principal port on the Danube. It is also the center of the Hungarian ethnic minority in Slovakia, which makes up roughly 10% of the entire population of Slovakia.
One disputed record of the name of the settlement can be dated...
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