It was [[Pest (city)|Pest]], a bustling commercial town, which enjoyed the faster growth rate in the [[18th century|18th]] and [[19th century|19th]] century and contributed the overwhelming majority of the cities' combined growth in the 19th. By [[1800]] its population was larger than that of Buda and Óbuda combined. The population of Pest grew twenty-fold in the following century to 600,000, while that of Buda and Óbuda quintupled. | It was [[Pest (city)|Pest]], a bustling commercial town, which enjoyed the faster growth rate in the [[18th century|18th]] and [[19th century|19th]] century and contributed the overwhelming majority of the cities' combined growth in the 19th. By [[1800]] its population was larger than that of Buda and Óbuda combined. The population of Pest grew twenty-fold in the following century to 600,000, while that of Buda and Óbuda quintupled. |