World War I wounds heal as bridges connect Slovak-Hungarian city If the bridges across the river Danube connecting Komarom in Hungary to Komarno in Slovakia could talk, no doubt they would tell a tale of turmoil that followed the disintegration of the Austro-Hungarian empire at the end of World War I. Today the bridges are the epitome of a borderless Europe -- but their appearance belies troubled waters of tension and division that stretch back a century, and which have only recently been calmed. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES