What's in a Prague street name
Every street in Prague, one by one.
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Category: Libuš
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Libušská was officially named in 1925. Part of it was called Gottwaldov in the 50s and 60s (Klement Gottwald being the not-so fondly remembered first Communist leader of Czechoslovakia, who died five days after attending Stalin’s funeral). On which: elections may mean that an unpleasantly high risk of seeing pictures of and quotes from Babiš…
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Paběnická was built in 1930. In 1212, a written document refers to a certain Vít z Paběnic – this suggests the presence, at that time, of Paběnice, a settlement to the south-west of Kunratice (https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2026/10/03/prague-4-day-461-kunraticka/). The existence of the settlement was explicitly confirmed in a document from 1287. In 1541, the settlement was devastated (presumably…
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Jalodvorská was built in 1920. Until 1935, the street was called Moskevská, after Moscow. Its current name harks back to the presumably underperforming farms that were once round here: https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2026/09/21/prague-4-day-450-pod-jalovym-dvorem/. For those keeping count (nobody is keeping count), there are ten streets to go before we move on to Michle. And all of Michle and…
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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…
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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…
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Novodvorská was created in 1935 through the merger of two streets: Hlavní (Main) and Vozová (which is related to ‘vůz’, meaning wagon). Once upon a time, there was a farmstead (in present-day Lhotka, also in Prague 4). Its name was Nový dvůr (New Court). It later became a monastery. After that, it served, at different…
