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Eduard Nepomuk Kozič (21 May 1829 – 25 April 1874) was a photographer and inventor, known for his photo ateliers in the city center of Pressburg (today Bratislava). He created images of monuments of Bratislava and its surrounding, but was famous also as author of portraits (Franz Liszt, Graf Géza Zichy). He invented and patented a procedure ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 what is now Slovakia.
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.
Images of German people (4 C, 4 F) Media in category "Images of Germany" The following 2 files are in this category, out of 2 total. Spitzer and Shorr.jpg 200 × 150; ...
Media in category "Featured pictures of Germany" The following 172 files are in this category, out of 172 total. "A New Sandow Pose (VIII)", Eugen Sandow Wellcome L0035270 - restoration.jpg 2,554 × 3,958; 4.54 MB
Paul Wittich. Paul Wittich (1877–1957 [1]) was a Carpathian German social democratic politician in Slovakia (then part of Austria-Hungary and later Czechoslovakia).He was a prominent labour leader in Pressburg (today known as Bratislava).