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Show These industries and many small-er small-er ones keep the city's 124,000 people peo-ple employed. About 40 per cent of the population is made up of Czechs and Slovaks, 28 per cent is German, and 22 per cent Magyar. Palace Offers Excellent View. The site of the old royal palace is a splendid grandstand from which to view Bratislava. Below, the town hall, Gothic cathedral, museum and Franciscaa church all products of the Thirteenth century stand among modern business buildings rising above a touch of Paris: sidewalk side-walk cafes, numerous monuments, llS If HI B ... Mfr. m-jj jMum. w.oX':v:MOao ak Capital ains Glory Past Years tva Once Home Iungarian Diet ind Royalty i National Geographic Society, (gum. D. C WNU Service. Slovakia's "Declara-jlndependence" "Declara-jlndependence" from Slovakia was promul- Bratislava, the role rnment fountainhead a new one to the city, slava, which was pg before Czecho- was born at Ver- the close of the World me the capital of all Hun-n Hun-n the Turks, in a mad oss southeastern Europe, Buda-the prefix to Buda-1541. Buda-1541. b of the old Hungarian tie atop one of the city's feet above the Danube, atislava's days as Hunga-city. Hunga-city. It continued to be il until about the time of W the United States, when Joseph II restored Buda to t dignity. Bratislava con-fe con-fe host to the Hungarian jver, until less than a cen- ortant Trade Outlet, wiings of kings, and the of diets have not, how-fely how-fely absorbed the citizens ava. For about a thou-i thou-i the city has been one of knt trade outlets on the i sort of commercial fun-ins fun-ins from the fields of the s, and wines from grapes o the nearby Little Car-llsides. Car-llsides. "'y. Bratislava has held among central European s size. A glance through doors reveals in the mak- flur, iron products, m chemicals, explo-:r' explo-:r' 'urniture and tobacco. SLOVAKIA GOES NAZI Armed and proudly wearing the swastika, these youthful Slovak Nazis stand guard outside out-side the headquarters in Bratislava Bra-tislava when the province of Slovakia asserted its independence independ-ence from the state of Czechoslovakia. Czecho-slovakia. and fountain-studded public parks. The palace ruins themselves recall re-call interesting tales. The edifice was burned in 1812, and one story has it that workmen caused the destruction de-struction because they grew tired of carrying supplies up the hill. Later, smugglers are repdrted to have used the ruins as a signal tower. ii. aiMp 1 |
