Bratislava City Tour: A Guide to Slovakia's Capital 

I'm glad you enjoyed it. The old well-kept buildings tend to be beautiful. Don't they?

Yes, lots of beauty. Funny how it used to be the capital of Hungary.

That's a good question. After the dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire, Pressburg/Pozsony/Pressburg became part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire because it fell under the jurisdiction of the Vienna branch of the Hapsburg Dynasty. It's my understanding that it was during this time that there became a stronger nationalistic movement/sentiment among the Slovak ethnic group within the empire and upon the dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian Empire someone determined that the Slovaks, Bohemians and Moravians were all ethnically closer related to each other than they were to the Austrians, Hungarians, Transylvanians or any other ethnic group within that empire. So the decision to make Bratislava part of Czechoslovakia, rather than Hungary, was based on ethnic identity (or someone's perception of it).