What's in a Prague street name

Originally published on Twitter on 8 August 2022.

Orebitská was built in 1885.

The Orebites (Orebité) were a radical branch of the Hussites, named after a procession that they took part in on Mount Oreb, which is located in Třebechovice.

Oreb itself was named after Horeb, the mountain at which Moses received the Ten Commandments.

Their ideological leader was Ambrož Hradecký – who has his own street in Žižkov too (https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2022/11/21/prague-3-day-68-ambrozova/).

The Orebites played a key role in the burning of the monastery at Mnichovo Hradiště in 1420.

Three years later, they merged with Žižka’s faction, which named itself the ‘Sirotci’ after his death in 1424.