My first postcard from Slovakia is Postcrossing meeting in Komárno. Komárno is a town in Slovakia at the confluence of the Danube and the Váh rivers. Komárno was formed from part of a historical town in Hungary situated on both banks of the Danube. Following World War I and the Treaty of Trianon, the border of the newly created Czechoslovakia cut the historical, unified town in half, creating two new towns. The smaller part, based on the former suburb of Újszőny, is in present-day Hungary as Komárom. Komárno and Komárom are connected by the Elisabeth Bridge, which used to be a border crossing between Slovakia and Hungary until border checks were lifted due to the Schengen Area rules. The town is the historic seat of the Serbian national minority in Slovakia.
Stamp is EUROPA 2016: Ecology in Europe – Think Green!, issued on 05.05.2016.
Thank you Ľubomír!
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