History
During the Roman Age the city was an outpost know as Ad Flexum Latin. After the Conquest it was used as a reeve-site, later it became shire-town. The motte of Moson was ruined by the soldiers of the Bohemian King Ottokar in 1271, after the Mongol Invasion the fort of Ovar was fortified. In 1354 the town was honoured with the right of goods arrestation and town rights by King Lajos the Great. When the Turks marched against Vienna it was repeatedly desolated, then in 1809 the army of Napoleon occupied the town. From 1529 it belonged to the Habsburg family and between 1763 and 1945 it was a private domain of the House of Habsburgs.
The main supply road from the Hungarian Flatlands to Vienna ran through Mosonmagyaróvár. Over the span of the Austian and Austro-Hungarian Empires, the town of Magyaróvár became an industrial and trade centre, while Moson remained a significant village inhabited by merchants and husbandmen. The two towns united in 1939 and together with the village of Lucsony that joined Magyaróvár in 1905.
