Dunajská Streda District is a district in the Trnava Region of western Slovakia. Until 1918, the district was mostly part of the county of Kingdom of Hungary of Pozsony, apart from a small area in the south,
which formed part of the county of Komárno, and Baloň, which formed part of the county of Győr. The majority of the inhabitants of Dunajská Streda District are Hungarians.
Dunajská Streda District
Dunajská Streda (Slovak pronunciation: [ˈdunajskaː ˈstreda] ; Hungarian: Dunaszerdahely; German: Niedermarkt; is a town located in southern Slovakia. Dunajská Streda is the most culturally significant town in the Žitný ostrov area. The town has a population of 22,730, with ethnic Hungarians forming the 72% majority.
Dunajská Streda Town Hall in April 2009
A sepia photo of the city's train station from the early 1930s featuring a bilingual place sign
The Jewish Holocaust memorial in the center of the town. Before the Holocaust about half of the town's population was Jewish. The memorial is shaped as a torn out Tablets of Stone, and was erected where the main town's synagogue was located.