 Dunaújváros is located in the Transdanubian part of the Great Hungarian Plain (called Mezőföld), south of Budapest on the Danube, Highway 6, Motorways M6, M8 and the electrified Budapest-Pusztaszabolcs-Dunaújváros-Paks railway.The city replaced the village of "Dunapentele" ("Pantaleon up on the Danube"), named after Saint Pantaleon.The construction of this new industrial city started in 1949 and the original village was renamed "Sztálinváros" ("Stalin City") in 1951.