Komárom
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Komárom | |
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UTC+2 (CEST) | |
Postal code | 2900 |
Area code | +36 34 |
KSH code | 05449[2] |
Website | http://www.komarom.hu |
Komárom (Hungarian:
History
Following the
The town was heavily damaged in the 1763 Komárom earthquake.
Between 1850 and 1871 the Fort Monostor (Monostori Erőd) was built nearby.
In 1920 Komárom was split by the newly created border of Czechoslovakia. In 1920 Hungary was forced to sign the Treaty of Trianon recognizing the new imposed borders including the border with Czechoslovakia. The loss of its territory created a sizable Hungarian minority in Slovakia. The Slovak part is today Komárno, Slovakia. In 1938 the entire city was returned to Hungary, its Regent, Admiral Horthy receiving a tumultuous welcome from the citizens as he crossed the old bridge and entered the formerly dismembered part.[6] At the end of World War II the city was again divided between Hungary and Czechoslovakia.
After World War II the occupying Soviets built the country's biggest ammunition storage in the Fortress of Monostor. Thousands of wagons of ammunition were forwarded from this strictly guarded area. One of a series of forts, the Monostor is today open to the public as a museum.
Komárom and Komárno are connected by two bridges: The older iron bridge, and a newer lifting bridge. Currently a third bridge is under construction with estimated completion by 2020/2021. The vast majority of its funding coming from the European Union's Connecting Europe Facility.[7]
The two towns used to be a border crossing between Czechoslovakia (today Slovakia) and Hungary, until both countries became part of the Schengen Area, resulting in all immigration and customs checks being lifted on December 12, 2007.
Significant minority groups | |
Nationality | Population (2011) |
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Germany | 163 |
Slovakia | 125 |
Romania | 30 |
Ukraine | 25 |
Poland | 12 |
Notable people
- Franz Heckenast (1889–1939), Austrian artillery officer and opponent of Nazism
- Jovan Monasterlija (d. 1706), Serb vice-voivode and Habsburg imperial officer
- Julie Kopacsy-Karczag (1867–1957), operatic soprano
- Cardinal Leopold Karl von Kollonitsch (1631–1707), Catholic prelate
- Franz Lehár (1870–1948), Austro-Hungarian composer
- Theodor Körner, Austrian President
- Mór Jókai (1825–1904), writer
- endocrinologist
- Tünde Szabó (1945–2021), Hungarian actress
- Péter Szijjártó (born 1978), Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade[8]
- Endre Komaromi-katz, painter [9]
Twin towns – sister cities
Komárom is twinned with:[10][11]
See also
- Komárno
- Komárom county
- Fort Monostor
References
- ^ Komárom, KSH
- ^ a b Komárom at the Hungarian Central Statistical Office (Hungarian).
- ^ Komárom at the Hungarian Central Statistical Office (Hungarian). 2017
- ^ e.g. Ripley, George; Anderson, Charles (1860). The New American Cyclopaedia. D. Appleton. p. 362.
- ^ "Koppánymonostor (in Hungarian)". city of Komárom, Hungary. Retrieved 26 April 2018.
- ^ YouTube, a Google company. YouTube. Archived from the original on 10 June 2019. Retrieved 5 March 2018.
- ^ "Home".
- ^ "Hon. Péter Szijjártó - Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade of Hungary". The 2016 Global 500 Who Is Who Book of Records (Global Lifetime Achievement Award Winners). Public Opinions International. Archived from the original on 25 October 2016.
- ^ "Komáromi-katz Endre". Hungarian Art Portal (Nemzeti Kulturális Alap). Archived from the original on 22 December 2015.
- ^ "Testvérváros". komarom.hu (in Hungarian). Komárom. Retrieved 7 April 2021.
- ^ "Új testvérvárosi megállapodást kötünk". komarom.hu (in Hungarian). Komárom. 28 April 2018. Retrieved 7 April 2021.
External links
- Official website in Hungarian, English, German and Slovak
- Aerial photography: Komárom
- Komárom on wiki.utikonyvem.hu
- "The Battle at Comorn in Hungary on 11th July 1849" - painting by Albrecht Adam, 1855