DUNAJVROS

town, Fejr megye (county), central Hungary, on the west bank of the Danube, 40 mi (65 km) downstream from Budapest. The town consists of Dunapentele (the original village [before 1950] on the site, now incorporated) and the new town sector of Komrom (where modern construction began in 1950), with extensive housing estates and large integrated ironworks and steelworks. Iron ore comes by river from the Ukraine, coking coal from the PcsKoml field in southwestern Hungary. The busy river port on the island of Szalki is linked by a bridge to the town. Other industries are a prefabricated house factory, textiles, and ready-to-wear clothing. Rail connections are via the new town, road and river links via the old town. A Roman city, Intercisa, located on a ford at the site of Dunapentele, perished about the 4th century, but ruins of the old fort are visible. Dunapentele, called Sztlinvros between 1950 and 1961, has a Greek Orthodox church (1696) and old peasant houses, some of which are cave dwellings carved in the soft loess. Pop. (1949) 3,949; (1970) 44,721; (1983 est.) 62,000.