Alaptolma (or Tolma) is a legendary Magyar tribal chieftain who lived in the first part of the 10th century. According to the medieval ''

Gesta Hungarorum ''Gesta Hungarorum'', or ''The Deeds of the Hungarians'', is the earliest book about Hungarian history which has survived for posterity. Its genre is not chronicle, but ''gesta'', meaning "deeds" or "acts", which is a medieval entertaining li ...

,'' Alaptolma, son of

Ketel Ketel is a legendary Magyar tribal chieftain of perhaps Kabar origin, who lived at the end of the 9th century. He was the father of Alaptolma,Tamás HölblingA honfoglalás forráskritikája I. - A külföldi kútfők Ad Librum Kiadó, 2010, p. ...

,György Györffy
Tanulmányok a magyar állam eredetéről
Magyar Néprajzi Társaság, Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959, p. 20 built a castle on the estate of his father, at the confluence of the

Danube The Danube ( ; ) is a river that was once a long-standing frontier of the Roman Empire and today connects 10 European countries, running through their territories or being a border. Originating in Germany, the Danube flows southeast for , ...

and

Váh The Váh (; german: Waag, ; hu, Vág; pl, WagWag
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( hu, Vág) rivers. This ancient castle became the core of the town of

Komárom Komárom (Hungarian: ; german: Komorn; la, Brigetio, later ; sk, Komárno) is a city in Hungary on the south bank of the Danube in Komárom-Esztergom County. Komárno, Slovakia, is on the northern bank. Komárom was formerly a separate vill ...

. Today Ketel and Alaptolma are honoured as the legendary founders of the city.

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