Komárno

Komárno is a town in southern Slovakia, set at the confluence of the Danube and the Váh rivers in the Nitra Region and the Komárno District. Historically it formed the old town on the left bank of the Danube, paired with a new town on the right bank that is now Komárom in Hungary, and the two were one administrative unit until the Treaty of Trianon after the First World War placed the border along the river and left two separate towns in two countries. The Elisabeth Bridge links them, and a new road bridge opened in 2020. Komárno is Slovakia's principal port on the Danube and the centre of the Hungarian community in Slovakia, which made up 56.69 percent of the town's population at the 2021 census. The most recent figure given for its population is 31,560 people at the end of 2025. Its town privileges go back to a charter of King Béla IV in 1265, and its great fortress system guarded the Habsburg lands against the Ottomans.