What's in a Prague street name

Milevská was built in 1962.

Milevsko is a town of 8,000 people in South Bohemia, located 22 kilometres from both Písek (https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2023/03/19/prague-3-day-175-pisecka/) and Tábor (https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2025/02/06/prague-4-day-26-taborska/).

The earliest written mention of it is from 1184, which is three years before Jiřího z Milevska, a nobleman, arranged for a monastery to be built in the vicinity.

As Milevsko was a strongly Catholic town, the monastery predictably came to an unpleasant end in 1420, when Hussites burnt it down. It was subsequently restored in the late 1500s, but as a Hussite institution.

After the Battle of Bílá Hora in 1620, it reentered Catholic ownership, becoming property of Strahov Monastery (https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2024/09/08/prague-1-day-29-strahovska/).

Milevsko was beset by bad luck after this: there was a huge fire in 1640 and 1749, and repeated plague epidemics in the 1600s and 1700s. Milevsko then became one of the poorest places in Bohemia, not really recovering until the 20th century.

Nowadays, Milevsko is best known for its ZVVZ –  závody pro výrobu vzduchotechnických zařízení, or plants for the production of air-conditioning equipment.

In 2001, a helicopter crash happened nearby; miraculously, everybody survived: https://english.radio.cz/ex-astronaut-praises-crew-fellow-passengers-after-helicopter-crash-8045375.