Komarom (Komarno), Hungary is a city on the right bank of the Danube in Komárom-Esztergom county. The Jewish community of Komarno was considered one of the oldest in the Danube region, as traditionally there were Jews in the town at the time of the Magyar conquest (end of the ninth century); it is possible that Jews went there with the Roman legions. In the 13th century King Bela IV (1235–70) pawned Komarno to Henuk, his Jewish chamberlain. As all the town's records were destroyed in 1848, no documentation remains on the community during the Middle Ages, but there are tombstones dating from the 17th century. When in 1727, the military hindered the Komarno Jews in pursuit of their trade, the city, concerned about its income from this trade, protested in the imperial chamber. Komarno Jews were fervent supporters of the Hungarian uprising in 1848. In that year there were 1,149 Jews in Komarno and district. The main community was Neologist; an Orthodox community was founded in the 1880s.