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Komárom
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Komárom (Hungarian: ; ; , later ; ) is a city in Hungary on the south bank of the Danube in Komárom-Esztergom County. Komárom fortress played an important role in the Hungarian Revolution of 1848 and many contemporary English sources refer to it as the Fortress of Comorn.
Key facts
- Settlement.area_code
- +36 34
- Settlement.official_name
- Komárom
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Town
- Settlement.image_shield
- HUN Komárom Címer.svg
- Settlement.image_flag
- Flag of Komárom (variant).svg
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Hungary
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location of Komárom in Hungary
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_name
- Hungary
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Region
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- [[]]
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- County
- Settlement.subdivision_type3
- Subregion
- Settlement.subdivision_name3
- Komárom
- Settlement.subdivision_type6
- Rank
- Settlement.area_total_km2
- 70.19
- Settlement.postal_code
- 2900
- Settlement.postal_code_type
- Postal code
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- city with municipal rights
- Country
- Hungary
- Located in
- Komárom District
- Population
- 19862
- Area
- 70.2
- Elevation
- 110
- Time zone
- UTC+02:00
- Shares border with
- Zlatná na Ostrove
- Official website
- www.komarom.hu
- Image
- Hungary, Komárom, a Városháza a Szabadság téren 001.JPG
- Dialing code
- 34
Show 10 more facts
- P12749
- Alfred Wegener
- twinned administrative body
- Khust
- postal code
- 2900
- Commons category
- Komárom
- topic's main category
- Category:Komárom
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Komárom
- contains settlement
- Szőny
- category for people born here
- Q9225272
- different from
- Komárom County
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
Sources (7)
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Encyclopedic overview
6 sectionsContents
- History
- Notable people
- Twin towns – sister cities
- See also
- References
- External links
Komárom (Hungarian: ; ; , later ; ) is a city in Hungary on the south bank of the Danube in Komárom-Esztergom County. Komárom fortress played an important role in the Hungarian Revolution of 1848 and many contemporary English sources refer to it as the Fortress of Comorn.
Komárom on the south bank was formerly known as a separate village called Újszőny (or Szony). Komarom on the north bank and Újszőny were connected in 1892 with an iron bridge across the Danube. The two towns were united under the name of city of Komárom in 1896.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Komárom” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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