What's in a Prague street name
Every street in Prague, one by one.
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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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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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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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Originally published on X on 11 September 2023. Let’s start this one in Italy, where Loreto, on the Adriatic coast, and with a population of about 12,000, houses the Basilica della Santa Casa, which some Catholics believe was inhabited by the Virgin Mary. Rather than being a nice Italian holiday home for the… Mary and…
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Originally published on Twitter on 30 December 2022. Jugoslávská was built in 1884. Until 1926, this was Karlova, after Karel IV, who will come up 1,926 times in the Prague 1 series. It was named Jugoslávská along with all the other Allied streets in 1926, although, under the Nazi occupation, it was called Priennova. Günther…
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Originally published on Twitter on 23 December 2022. Záhřebská was built in 1872. Until 1880, this was Hrabova, after Josef Hraba (born 1815), a hotelier who owned the land upon which the street was built (and who died the year before it was). Then, until 1926, it was Klicperova, after Václav Kliment Klicpera (1752-1859), a…
