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Prague 4, day 345: Mirotická
Mirotická was built in 1988. Mirotice is a town of 1,200 people which, like yesterday’s Čimelice (https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2026/03/28/prague-4-day-344-cimelicka/), is in Písek District in South Bohemia. The earliest known written mention is from 1254, by which time it was already a royal town. Also in common with Čimelice, Mirotice was marked by events occurring in the final… Continue reading
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Prague 4, day 344: Čimelická
Čimelická was built in 1988. Čimelice is a village of about 1,000 inhabitants in Písek District, about 25 kilometres south-east of Písek (https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2023/03/19/prague-3-day-175-pisecka/) and about 87 km south of Prague. The earliest written mention we have is from the 1400s; it is literally the village of Čmel’s people, although we’re not sure who this Čmel… Continue reading
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Prague 4, day 343: Chýnovská
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… Continue reading
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Prague 4, day 342: Durychova
Durychova was built in 1976. Until 1995, the street was called Dolejšího, after Vojtěch Dolejší (1903-1972), a Communist journalist who worked for Rudé právo, among other publications, and was chairman of the Czechoslovak Union of Journalists from 1957 to 1963. Jaroslav Durych was born in Hradec Králové (https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2023/06/24/prague-3-day-176-hradecka/). He graduated from the Faculty of Medicine… Continue reading
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Prague 4, day 341: Růženínská
Růženínská was built in 1981. We start this story in Chocerady, a town of about 1,400 people, 27 kilometres southeast of Prague. Chocerady has five municipal parts; the second-largest of these is called Vlkovec (with 169 inhabitants, it’s a lot smaller than the largest, also called Chocerady, and which has 863 inhabitants). Vlkovec was once… Continue reading
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Prague 4, day 340: U Nového dvora
U Nového dvora was built in 1927. Repetition time: this one is by the ‘new court’ that a much longer road around the corner is also named after: https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2026/01/11/prague-4-day-276-novodvorska/. Continue reading
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Prague 4, day 339: Na Borovém
Na Borovém was built in 1930. A ‘bor’ is a pine; ‘borový’ is therefore the adjective, and a ‘borový les’ is a pine forest. There was once one round here, eventually replaced by the Krč housing estate. The forest was generally known as ‘Borový’ (no les), hence the street name. Obviously, that forest is long… Continue reading
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Prague 4, day 338: U družstva Tempo
U družstva Tempo was built in 1935. A ‘družstvo’ is a cooperative, or a housing cooperation. Those of you who’ve been following the series for a while may remember https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2025/03/28/prague-4-day-60-druzstevni-ochoz/, where I spoke about how the street was named after said cooperatives (who built its houses). There were then various streets named after specific cooperatives,… Continue reading
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Prague 4, day 337: Slepá II
Slepá II was built in 1935. This is, predictably, the sequel to yesterday’s https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2026/03/18/prague-4-day-336-slepa-i/. So here’s some vocabulary to compensate. The ‘slepé střevo’ is the blind gut, or the caecum, which is joined to the appendix. If you can hear a sound right now, it’s me realising it’s taken me until 2026 to realise why… Continue reading
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Prague 4, day 336: Slepá I
Slepá I was built in 1935. ‘Slepá’ most commonly translates as ‘blind’ (for those wondering, ‘slepá bába’ is ‘blind man’s buff’. Things that are not part of the animal kingdom that can be blind include, of course, alleys. Therefore, a ‘slepá ulice’, such as this one, is a ‘blind alley’, a ‘dead end’ or a… Continue reading
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Prague 4, day 335: V zahradní čtvrti
V zahradní čtvrti was built in 1935. This district (‘čtvrť) has a lot of nice houses. Although I wouldn’t particularly recommend performing internet searches to see if you can afford them. These nice houses are often accompanied by nice gardens (‘zahrady’). Hence this street being ‘in the garden district’. Looking for this info has led to me… Continue reading
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Prague 4, day 334: Toušeňská
Toušeňská was built in 1980. Lázně Toušeň is a town in the current-day Prague East district, with a population of 1,500. The oldest gold object ever found in Central Europe – an earring from the Řivnáč culture, dating from about BCE 3,000 – was discovered here. Its name means ‘Toušen’s hillfort’, and it’s feminine –… Continue reading
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Prague 4, day 333: K Novému dvoru
K Novému dvoru was built in 1925. K Novému dvoru is named after the former farmstead Nový dvůr (New Court), as is the nearby main road, Novodvorská (https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2026/01/11/prague-4-day-276-novodvorska/). From 1925 to 1930, the street was called Mikoláše Aleše, after one of the greatest Czech painters; you can learn more about him on https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2024/10/22/prague-1-day-210-alsovo-nabrezi-ales-embankment/ (which is… Continue reading
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Prague 4, day 332: Na příčce
Na příčce was built in 1938. A ‘příčka’ is… well, all kinds of things. Take your pick from ‘crossbar’, ‘rung’, spoke’, ‘dividing wall’, ‘partition’, or ‘crosspiece’, and feel free to add your own. In this case, the street was apparently meant to be a dividing line between Na Borovém (now called Štúrova; see on https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2026/03/05/prague-4-day-325-sturova/)… Continue reading
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Prague 4, day 331: Vzdušná
Vzdušná was built in 1941 (I think). There’s greenery around here, and there no doubt used to be a lot more of it, especially as none of these streets I’ve been covering lately seem to have sprung up earlier than Czechoslovakia did. This particular street was built on a plateau near the forest. One nice… Continue reading
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Prague 4, day 329: Na rovinách
Na rovinách was built in 1925. It’s flat round here. And the street is, as its name says, on a plain (or, as it’s in the plural, ‘plains’). We’ve been in very similar name territory in Prague 4 already: https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2025/09/09/prague-4-day-167-v-rovinach/. Continue reading
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Prague 4, day 328: Na Větrově
Na Větrově was built in 1925. Větrov, deriving from ‘vítr’ (wind), is a name popularly given to hills which are bare of vegetation and quite, yes, windy. This area was once called Větrov for that reason. If you think we’ve been on this topic before, we have – see https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2024/08/25/prague-2-day-113-apolinarska/ for a hill in the… Continue reading
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Prague 4, day 327: U lesa
U lesa was built in 1925. We’re back on the street names that represent the surroundings – ‘U lesa’ is quite literally by a forest, namely Velký háj, which got a bit of attention on https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2026/01/04/prague-4-day-270-nad-lesnim-divadlem/. This piece – published yesterday – indicates that the intended revival of the forest theatre is progressing quite nicely:… Continue reading
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Prague 4, day 326: Sulická
Sulická was built before 1925; it was part of Libušská (not covered yet) until 1975. Sulice is a village in present-day Prague-East District. The earliest mention of it that we know of is from 1282. A description from 1898 said Sulice was ‘fanned by coniferous forest’, used to have a fortress, and had a population… Continue reading
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Prague 4, day 325: Štúrova
Štúrova was built in 1969. Ľudovít Velislav Štúr was born in Uhrovec, a village near Trenčín, Slovakia, in 1815. His father, Samuel, had moved from Trenčín to take up a position as a teacher. Originally educated by his father, Ľudovít moved to Ráb (present-day Győr, Hungary) in 1827 to study at the gymnasium. A Slovak-born… Continue reading
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