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Bratislava (Hungarian: Pozsony, German: Preßburg/Pressburg), currently the capital of Slovakia and the country's largest city, has existed for about a thousand years. . Because of the city's strategic geographical location, it was an important European hub due to its proximity to the advanced cultures of the Mediterranean and the Orient as well as its link to the rest of Europe, which were ...
Pozsony county was an administrative county of the Kingdom of Hungary. Its territory is now mostly part of Slovakia, while a small area belongs to Hungary. In 1969, the three villages that remained in Hungary were combined to form Dunasziget. Its name changed along with that of the city of Pressburg (Hungarian: Pozsony, today's Bratislava).
Between the years 1867-1918, the territory of Pressburg became part of Austro-Hungarian Empire. Before World War I, the city had a population that was 42% German, 41% Hungarian and 15% Slovak (1910 census). The first post war census in 1919 declared the city's ethnic composition at 36% German, 33% Slovak and 29% Hungarian but this may have ...
The following lists show the administrative divisions of the lands belonging to the Hungarian crown (1000–1920) at selected points of time. The names are given in the main official language used in the Kingdom at the times in question.
In 1783, Emperor Joseph II, the son of Maria Theresa, allowed Jews to settle in Pest, while enacting a tolerance tax, which the Jews had to pay to the town. [4]After 1789, the Jews paid a tolerance tax of 4 florins per family, a tax on kosher meat, a marriage tax, a tax on the synagogues and cemeteries of 100 florins per year, and a quota tax of 50 florins per year.
Kingdom of Hungary Rank Current English name Contemporary official name [6] Other Present-day country Population in 1910 Present-day population 1. Budapest: Budimpešta Hungary 1,232,026 (city without the suburb 880,371) 1,735,711 (Metro: 3,303,786) 2. Szeged: Szegedin, Segedin Hungary 118,328 170,285 3. Subotica: Szabadka Суботица ...
Kingdom of Hungary in 1850. The Military District of Preßburg was one of the administrative units of the Habsburg Kingdom of Hungary from 1850 to 1860. The seat of the district was Preßburg (Pozsony, now Bratislava). It included western parts of present-day Slovakia and northern parts of present-day Hungary.
It is claimed that Urbs Paludarum, Brazlavo's burg (Moosburg), was the site of the Battle of Pressburg, instead of Bratislava. [5] The only contemporary source mentioning a location of the battle is the Annales iuvavenses maximi (Annals of Salzburg); however, the reliability of these annals is questionable, as they survive only in fragments copied in the 12th century. [6]