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bratislava.sk. Bratislava ( / ˌbrætɪˈslɑːvə / BRAT-iss-LAH-və, US also / ˌbrɑːt -/ BRAHT-, [ 3][ 4] Slovak: [ˈbracislaʋa] ⓘ) (German: Pressburg or Preßburg, German pronunciation: [ˈpʁɛsbʊʁk]; Hungarian: Pozsony ), is the capital and largest city of Slovakia and the fourth largest of all cities on the River Danube.
It is the main international airport of Slovakia. Shortly after the independence of Slovakia in 1993, it was named after general Milan Rastislav Štefánik (1880–1919), whose aircraft crashed near Bratislava in 1919. The airport is owned and run by Letisko M. R. Štefánika – Airport Bratislava, a.s. (BTS). As of September 2014 the company ...
Originally called Budapest Ferihegy International Airport ( Budapest Ferihegy Nemzetközi Repülőtér ), on 25 March 2011 it was officially renamed Budapest Liszt Ferenc International Airport in honour of the Hungarian pianist and composer Franz Liszt (Modern Hungarian: Liszt Ferenc ). Popularly, the airport is still called Ferihegy as before.
The station's main building before the addition of the foyer. Bratislava main railway station ( Slovak: Bratislava hlavná stanica, abbreviated as Bratislava hl.st.; German: Pressburg Hauptbahnhof; Hungarian: Pozsony főpályaudvar) is the main railway station of the city of Bratislava, Slovakia. [1] It averages about 60,000 passengers per day.
Bratislava (Hungarian: Pozsony, German: Preßburg/Pressburg), currently the capital of Slovakia and the country's largest city, has existed for about a thousand years. . Because of the city's strategic geographical location, it was an important European hub due to its proximity to the advanced cultures of the Mediterranean and the Orient as well as its link to the rest of Europe, which were ...
Planned high-speed rail link Paris—Bratislava. The Magistrale for Europe [1] [2] (German: Magistrale für Europa; [3] French: Magistrale européenne [4]) or Main Line for Europe [5] is a Trans-European Transport Networks (TEN-T) project for the creation of a high-speed railway line between Paris and Bratislava, with a branch-off to Budapest. [1]
Budapest Keleti station ( Hungarian: Keleti pályaudvar; "eastern railway station") is the main international and inter-city railway terminal in Budapest, Hungary. The station stands where Rákóczi Avenue splits to become Kerepesi Avenue and Thököly Avenue. Its name in 1891 originates not only from its position as the easternmost of the city ...
Budapest is a prominent location for the Hungarian entertainment industry, with many films, television series, books, and other media set there. Budapest is the largest centre for film and television production in Hungary. In 2011, it employed more than 50,000 people and generated 63.9% of revenues of the media industry in the country. [226]