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Another probable fact is that around 900, the castle and the territory it controlled was given in fief to Predslav, the third son of the Great Moravian king Svatopluk I and that Pre(d) slav, or a person of the same name, is the person after which the castle and the town received its old German name Pressburg (from which the old Slovak name ...
Bratislava, [a] historically known as Pozsony and Pressburg, [b] is the capital and largest city of the Slovak Republic and the fourth largest of all cities on the River Danube. Officially, the population of the city is about 475,000; however, some sources estimate daily number of people moving around the city based on mobile phone SIM cards is ...
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 ...
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In the Peace of Pressburg on 26 December 1805, Ferdinand lost Salzburg to the Austrian Empire but was compensated with the Würzburg territory, Bavaria having relinquished it in return for Tyrol. Ferdinand's state was briefly known as the Electorate of Würzburg ( Kurfürstentum Würzburg ), but it was elevated to the status of a Grand Duchy ...
The station's main building before the addition of the foyer. Bratislava main railway station (Slovak: Bratislava hlavná stanica, abbreviated as Bratislava hl.st.; German: Pressburg Hauptbahnhof; Hungarian: Pozsony főpályaudvar) is the main railway station of the city of Bratislava, Slovakia. [1]
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.
The Pressburg Yeshiva, was the largest and most influential Yeshiva in Central Europe in the 19th century. It was founded in the city of Pressburg, Austrian Empire (today Bratislava , Slovakia ) by Rabbi Moshe Sofer (known as the Chasam Sofer or Chatam Sofer ) and was considered the largest Yeshiva since the time of the Babylonian Talmud.