What's in a Prague street name
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Category: 1972
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Chýnovská was built in 1972. Chýnov is a town of 2,600 people in South Bohemia, eleven kilometres to the east of Tábor (https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2025/02/06/prague-4-day-26-taborska/). Before the town existed, there was a hillfort of the same name, associated with the Slavník dynasty (circa 981) if we believe Kosmas and his Chroncicle (circa over 120 years later). It…
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Nad Pekařkou was named in 1972. ‘Pekařka’ translates as ‘baker’ (female). It was also the name of a farmstead which came into being in the early 1800s and was located around here. It later gained an inn, Na Pekařce. In the second half of the 20th century, the area was used by Polygrafia, a printing…
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