ABSTRACT
People can understand why the old interests could not be represented in the new city as in the past if we consider the scale of developments occurring in the two decades up to the city's unification: the three constituent cities were no longer the same places. The proposed districts and their boundaries, alongside other regulations, were soon approved by the Ministry of the Interior, and, on 25 October 1873, the new city assembly convened in the Vigado Concert Hall in Pest. The overall compromise greatly assisted the new city's social amalgamation. Aquincum was located in the northern part of Budapest, on territory later called Obuda. Its status is indicated by the fact that emperors sometimes appeared at the governor's palace. Because the Empire's boundary ran along the Danube, construction work was also performed on the river's left bank, in the interests of defence.
