What's in a Prague street name
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Category: 1969
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Tajovského was built in 1969. Jozef Alojz Gregor was born in Tajov, a village near Banská Bystrica, in 1874 – ten years after someone else we recently wrote about was born there (https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2026/09/11/prague-4-day-442-murgasova/). This is the house he grew up in. After he finished school in Banská Bystrica in 1889, he trained to be a…
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Moysesova was built in 1969. Štefan Moyzes (which seems to be how his name is spelt in most sources online, rather than ‘Moyses’) was born in Veselé, near Piešťany, which, in turn, is near Trnava in present-day Slovakia. He completed school there, and started to study philosophy at the local seminary, before continuing his studies…
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Sládkovičova was built in 1969. Andrej Braxatoris was born in Krupina, near Banská Bystrica in present-day Slovakia, in 1820. He started his schooling in Krupina, finished it in Bratislava, and then studied at the University of Halle from 1843 to 1844. He also had his first (patriotic) poems published in 1842 in the almanach Nitra,…
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Jánošíkova was built in 1969. Juraj Jánošík was born in Terchová, near Žilina in Slovakia, in 1688. Around 1706, he joined the army of Francis II Rákóczi, a Hungarian nobleman who had been waging a war of independence against the Habsburgs since 1703. Within a couple of years, however, he had joined the Imperial Army…
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Murgašova was built in 1969. Jozef Murgaš was born in Tajov, near Banská Bystrica in Slovakia, in 1864 (photo taken from Wikimedia Commons, credit to Peter Zelizňák). Having finished his schooling in Banská Bystrica, he went to Bratislava to study at the seminary from 1880 to 1882, then moving to Esztergom (now in Hungary) to…
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Ružinovská was built in 1969. Ružinov is a borough in eastern Bratislava, with a population of about 84,000 people. The area has been settled for at least 5,500 years. One village, Prievoz, developed next to one of two fords over which it was possible to cross the Danube. Agricultural until the late 19th century, the…
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Hurbanova was built in 1969. Jozef Ľudovít Hurban was born in Beckov, now in the Trenčín region of Slovakia, in 1817, the son of a Lutheran priest (photo taken from Wikimedia Commons, credit to Peter Zelizňák). Initially home-schooled, he attended school in Trenčín, followed by the Lutheran Lyceum in Bratislava, where he spent ten years…
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Bernolákova was built in 1969. Anton Bernolák was born in Slanica, a now-extinct village in the Orava region of Slovakia, in 1762. He studied theology in Vienna and Bratislava, where he studied at the general seminary. While at the seminary, he became a big supporter of the Enlightenment reforms of Maria Theresa and Joseph II,…
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Kukučínova was built in 1969. Its spelling was corrected from the original Kukučinova in 1999. Matej Bencúr was born in Jasenová, Slovakia, near Dolný Kubín, in 1860. He went to school in several towns, ultimately completing his schooling in Sopron, which is now in Hungary (cue a quick photo dump from a wonderful two-week holiday…
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Branický most was named in 1969. In 1920, the Prague Railway Commission received a proposal for a railway bridge for freight transport. Construction began, somewhat abruptly, in 1949, before the design of the bridge had even been agreed on (this doesn’t sound like a great idea). It’s thought that part of the reason for the…
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Žalmanova was built in 1969. First of all, your almost-daily reminder that we’re in Jiráskovo čtvrť (see https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2024/09/01/prague-2-day-154-jiraskovo-namesti/). Second of all, your reminder that Jirásek wrote a novel called F.L. Věk (see https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2025/12/02/prague-4-day-247-vrbova/). Žalman is a character in said novel; he’s an old man and closet Protestant, whose tales of hardship and persecution have a…
