[44] In 1825 the Hungarian National Learned Society (the present Hungarian Academy of Sciences) was founded in Pressburg using a donation from István Széchenyi. [38] Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart gave a concert in 1762 in the Pálffy Palace. The metro area population of Bratislava in 2018 was 430,000, a 0.7% increase from … Joseph Haydn performed in 1784 in the Grassalkovich Palace. [25][26], The first written reference to a settlement named "Brezalauspurc" dates to 907 and is related to the Battle of Pressburg, during which a Bavarian army was defeated by the Hungarians. [53] The city became the seat of Slovakia's political organs and organizations and became Slovakia's capital on 4 February. The castle hill site has been inhabited since the transitional period between the Stone and Bronze ages[98] and has been the acropolis of a Celtic town, part of the Roman limes Romanus, a huge Slavic fortified settlement, and a political, military and religious centre for Great Moravia. The name Bratislava, which had been used only by some Slovak patriots, became official in March 1919 with the aim that a Slavic name could support the demands that the city should be part of Czechoslovakia.[18]. Po rokoch sa tanečníkom splnil vytúžený sen", "Vystoupení SĽUKu ve Vsetíně se ruší, zasáhlo slovenské ministerstvo", "Bratislava City Gallery – about us – buildings", "Danubiana Meulensteen Art Museum – About us", "Slovan Bratislava – najväčšie úspechy (Slovan Bratislava – greatest achievements)", "Slovakia to host ice hockey World Championships in 2011", "Twin City Journal – The Oldest Athletic Event in Slovakia", "Bratislava, Slovakia: Vysoka Skola Manazmentu (VSM)", "Prehľad základných škôl v školskom roku 2006/2007", "Prehľad gymnázií v školskom roku 2006/2007", "Prehľad stredných odborných škôl v školskom roku 2006/2007", "Prehľad združených stredných škôl v školskom roku 2006/2007", "Prehľad stredných odborných učilíšť a učilíšť v školskom roku 2006/2007", "Airport served more than 2 million passengers last year (, https://spectator.sme.sk/c/20034526/bratislava-grants-honorary-citizenship-to-vaclav-havel.html, https://spectator.sme.sk/c/20041161/american-general-to-receive-honorary-citizenship-of-bratislava.html, Official Tourism and Travel Guide to Bratislava, Institutional seats of the European Union, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bratislava&oldid=978067094, Short description is different from Wikidata, Pages using multiple image with auto scaled images, Articles containing Hungarian-language text, Articles containing Italian-language text, Articles containing Romanian-language text, Articles containing Serbo-Croatian-language text, All articles with vague or ambiguous time, Articles with unsourced statements from April 2019, Articles with dead external links from January 2015, Articles containing potentially dated statements from 2007, All articles containing potentially dated statements, Wikipedia articles with MusicBrainz area identifiers, Wikipedia articles with SELIBR identifiers, Wikipedia articles with WorldCat identifiers, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, Roman Catholic church records (births/marriages/deaths): 1601–1897 (parish A), Lutheran church records (births/marriages/deaths): 1606–1919 (parish A), This page was last edited on 12 September 2020, at 18:14.