What's in a Prague street name

Every street in Prague, one by one.

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I could talk about myself for ages, or I could point out that https://english.radio.cz/ed-ley-englishman-recording-stories-pragues-streets-one-one-8806941 is over two years old but still largely stands (other than the Twitter links).

Category: Bratislava

  • Prague 4, day 442: Murgašova

    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…

  • Prague 4, day 441: Ružinovská

    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…