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Modra (German: Modern, Hungarian: Modor, Latin: Modur) is a city and municipality in the Bratislava Region in Slovakia. It has a population of 9,201 as of 2013. It nestles in the foothills of the Malé Karpaty (Little Carpathian mountains) and is an excellent centre for hiking. Modra is famous for its pottery industry.
On 4 April 1945, Bratislava was liberated by the Soviet Red Army 2nd Ukrainian Front during the Bratislava–Brno offensive. [69] [74] The Czechoslovak government and president Edvard Beneš then moved to Bratislava on 8 May. [75] At the end of World War II, most of Bratislava's ethnic Germans were evacuated by the German authorities.
Štúr undertook his secondary education at a grammar school in Modra, when his family moved there when he was 12. He then attended the Protestant Lyceum in Bratislava , for a period. [ 2 ] In 1844, he matriculated at the Vienna Polytechnic where he studied mathematics and natural sciences.
Bratislava IV (Slovak: okres Bratislava IV; Hungarian: Pozsonyi IV. járás) is an okres (district) of Bratislava in the Bratislava Region of Slovakia.It is the largest Bratislava district and covers the north-western parts of Bratislava, including the boroughs of Devín, Devínska Nová Ves, Dúbravka, Karlova Ves, Lamač and Záhorská Bystrica.
Until 1943, Bratislava consisted more or less of the boroughs Staré Mesto, Nové Mesto and a part of Ružinov. That year, the village of Karlova Ves was annexed to Bratislava. [ 2 ] In 1946, the formerly independent villages of Devín, Dúbravka, Lamač, Petržalka, Prievoz (part of Ružinov), Rača and Vajnory were annexed to Bratislava ...
Záhorská Bystrica (German: Bisternitz, Hungarian: Pozsonybeszterce) is a city borough of Bratislava, the capital of Slovakia. It is located in the northern part of the city, lying on the foothills of the Pezinok Carpathians, part of the Little Carpathians mountain range. It is part of the Bratislava IV administrative district. The city ...
A golden sign in the Hungarian language placed on the bottom of a historic wagon. The Modranská železnica (English: Modra railway, Slovak pronunciation: ['mɔdranskaː 'ʐeleznitsa]) alebo Modra hlavná stanica (English: Modra main railway station, Slovak pronunciation: ['mɔdra 'hlavnaː 'stanitsa]) is cultural space [1] and imaginary railway station [2] located on a field between the ...
The church, as seen from the Župné námestie square Interior of the Trinitarian Church in Bratislava Image of the former monastery, now county house next to the church. The Trinitarian Church or Trinity Church, full name Church of Saint John of Matha and Saint Felix of Valois (Slovak: Kostol trinitárov, Trinitársky kostol or Trojičný kostol or Kostol svätého Jána z Mathy a svätého ...