What's in a Prague street name

Poberova was built in 1935.

We’ve been on a bit of a break, so let’s recap some key information.

Alois Jirásek was a writer of historical novels and plays; these were written at a time when the Czech nation was seriously (re-)discovering itself. He has a square named after him in Prague 2: https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2024/09/01/prague-2-day-154-jiraskovo-namesti/.

As well as a bridge: https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2024/09/01/prague-2-day-155-jiraskuv-most/.

Making our way south to Braník, the streets around here are mainly named after characters from Jirásek’s novels. Fittingly, the district is therefore called Jiráskova čtvrť (Jirásek’s Quarter).

One of these novels – or, more accurately, a trilogy of three novels – was called Bratrstvo (Brotherhood), and concerns Hussite exploits in Slovakia around the 1450s (spoiler: the Hussites’ finest military exploits had been and gone by this stage).

Bratrstvo is quite well represented in Braník – we’ve already discussed it on https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2025/12/19/prague-4-day-264-talafusova/.

And some of the real events underpinning the trilogy are discussed in more detail on https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2025/11/15/prague-4-day-230-jiskrova/, also in Braník.

Another character in the story is Pobera z Lomu, a fighter whom we first see when he’s (only just) escaped death at the hands of the Germans.

Pobera, while staying just outside Žilina with his army, meets a local, Bodorovský, who decides to settle his considerable debts by selling his wife, Mária to, yes, Pobera.

Pobera tries to win Mária’s heart, but she makes arrangements with Jan Talafús – he of Day 264 fame – who secretly takes her away. At the end of the first novel, Pobera and Talafús commit to a duel to the death once the war is over.

When this duel eventually happens, Pobera manages to seriously injure Talafús.

Ultimately, Pobera falls in the same battle that Petr Aksamit (https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2025/12/21/prague-4-day-266-aksamitova/) did (the real-life battle took place in May 1458).