Komarom

Komarom is a city in Hungary on the south financial institution of the Danube in Komárom-Esztergom county. Komarom, Slovakia, is on the northern bank. Komarom become formerly a separate village referred to as Ujszony. In 1892 Komarom and Ujszony had been connected with an iron bridge and in 1896 the two towns have been united under the name town of Komarom. The citadel performed an vital role within the Hungarian Revolution of 1848 and plenty of modern English resources talk to it because the Fortress of Comorn. Following the Hungarian conquest of the Carpathian Basin at the flip of the ninth and tenth centuries, Prince Árpád gave Komarom and the Komarom county region to tribal chieftain Ketel.

Ketel become the first acknowledged ancestor of the famous Koppán genus extended family. At the start of the 12th century, this tribe based the metropolis's Benedictine Monastery in honor of the Blessed Virgin, noted in 1222 by using the call of Monostorium de Koppán. The Turks destroyed a lot of the monastery and its surroundings in 1529, and the region changed into thus depopulated. Later references check with it because the Pioneer Monastery Presently, it is referred to as Koppanymonostor in honor of its founding circle of relatives. Roman ruins which include a stone mile marker and watchtowers nonetheless stand today.