ABSTRACT
This chapter explores two post-socialist townscapes of two sets of mid-size twin towns, each linked by a bridge over the Danube between Hungary and Slovakia. The twins are: first, Esztergom and strurovo; and second, Komarom and Komarno. The trend has been expressed in population and migration trends and recorded by National Statistical Offices of Hungary and Slovakia. The Danube region was until 1920 mostly dominated by the Habsburg Empire. The Empire had been the winner of sixteenth/seventeenth-century struggles with the Ottoman Empire within the territory of the medieval Hungarian Kingdom. People on both sides of the Danube saw the borders as temporary, doubly so because most people in Komarno and Strurovo spoke Hungarian and had Hungarian identity. The two communist state's governments reorganized their urban networks. Czech development shifted northwards away from the Danube, along the line to Nove Zamky and Nitra.
