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Pressburg flourished during the 18th-century reign of Queen Maria Theresa, [42] becoming the largest and most important town in the Kingdom of Hungary. [43] The population tripled; many new palaces, [42] monasteries, mansions, and streets were built, and the city was the centre of social and cultural life of the region. [44]
Bratislava (Hungarian: Pozsony, German: Preßburg/Pressburg), currently the capital of Slovakia and the country's largest city, has existed for about a thousand years. . Because of the city's strategic geographical location, it was an important European hub due to its proximity to the advanced cultures of the Mediterranean and the Orient as well as its link to the rest of Europe, which were ...
The Peace of Pressburg [a] was signed in Pressburg (today Bratislava) on 26 December 1805 between French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte and Holy Roman Emperor Francis II, as a consequence of the French victory over the Russians and Austrians at the Battle of Austerlitz (2 December). A truce was agreed on 4 December, and negotiations for the treaty ...
Peace of Pressburg (1626), between Gabriel Bethlen of Transylvania, the leader of an uprising against the Habsburg Monarchy, and Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor Peace of Pressburg (1805) , between France and Austria ending the War of the Third Coalition and marking the effective end of the Holy Roman Empire
Consequently, Pressburg Castle became the most important royal castle and the formal seat of the kings of Royal Hungary (who, however, resided in Vienna normally). At the same time, from the beginning of the 16th century, Pressburg and its castle had to face various anti-Habsburg uprisings in Royal Hungary on the territory of Slovakia.
907 - July 4–7: Battle of Pressburg. 1271 - Town captured by Ottokar II of Bohemia [1] and on July 2 he signs a Peace treaty with Stephen V of Hungary. 1286 - City taken by "lords of Kysek." [2] 1288 - Rathaus built. [3] 1291 - Town privileges granted. 1297 - Franciscan Church consecrated. [1] 1405 - Free royal town status granted.
Construction of the medieval fortifications in Bratislava (known as Pressburg / Pozsony for most of its history, when belonged to the Kingdom of Hungary) started in the 13th century. By the end of the 14th century, there were three gates leading to the town: the Michael's Gate (north), Vydrica Gate (west), and Laurinc Gate (east). [ 2 ]
The second Peace of Pressburg (also known as the Treaty of Pressburg) was a peace treaty concluded in Pressburg (then Pozsony, today's Bratislava) that brought a resolution to the earlier Austrian-Hungarian War (1477-1488).