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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 ...
Arnold Pressburger (27 August 1885 – 17 February 1951) was an Austrian Jewish [1] film producer who produced more than 70 films between 1913 and 1951. Pressburger was born in Pressburg, Austria-Hungary (now Bratislava, Slovakia) and died in Hamburg, Germany from a stroke.
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 ...
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 ...
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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).
Notable people with the surname include: Abrahám Pressburger (1924–2018), Jewish Czech partisan during World War II; Arnold Pressburger (1885–1951), Austrian film producer; Emeric Pressburger (1902–1988), Hungarian-British screenwriter, film director, and producer; Giorgio Pressburger (1937–2017), Italian writer of novels and short stories
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