What's in a Prague street name

2 responses to “Prague 4, day 168: Nad vrstvami”

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   Bronja Prazdny

   Sep 10, 2025 at 11:34 am

   Hi,

   I am a writer from the Netherlands and am currently writing a novel set in Prague in the 1950s and 1960s and came across your page by chance. Well, not really chance, is it: i was trying to find the new name for a street named Obránců míru in the horrid old days and since was changed into something else but I just could not seem to find out what and then there was your page.

   THANK YOU!

   ALso thank you for all the other streets you have walked and talked about. It is such a pleasure to walk with you from a far. I have to grin quite a lot, too, you must be British, with that sense of humor.

   Please, keep them coming!

   One question: is there an archive that I can consult? I really wish to read everything you have written about so far…

   Thanks again and have a good day!

   Bronja

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      Ed

      Sep 10, 2025 at 8:25 pm

      Hi Bronja – how I loved reading this! After I quit Twitter – which this was on for the first couple of years – I get less feedback, and it’s lovely to hear someone is enjoying the series as much as I’m enjoying writing the posts.

      Answering in order (and with big thanks to the Pražský uličník): there were three streets called Obránců míru, but I’m thinking there’s a 99% chance that you mean this one: https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milady_Hor%C3%A1kov%C3%A9_(Praha)

      For the archive… the website really is the archive 🙂 I wrote about Prague 3 on Twitter in 2022 (I live in Prague 3), then Prague 2 from 2022-3, and Prague 1 from 2023-4. The plan is to get through Prague 4 – which is HUGE – then move on to Prague 5 (also huge, and so on).

      And yes, it seems that Britishness has shone through, for better or worse!

      Groeten uit Žižkov,

      Ed

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