What's in a Prague street name

Every street in Prague, one by one.


Prague 4, day 42: V Horkách

V Horkách was built in 1906.

A ‘hora’ is a mountain; a ‘horka’ is the diminutive form thereof.

And the surrounding area was known as ‘Horky’ – the small mountains – at least as far back as 1841.

I’m not finding it massively ‘mountainous’ here, but I guess everything’s relative.

It’s also the name of at least three towns in Czechia, as well as at least four parts of towns, and one nature reserve.



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