What's in a Prague street name
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Category: Modřany
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Československého exilu was built in 1979. Unsurprisingly, the street was not called that in the still-a-decade-of-Communism-to-go days of 1979. Instead, it was called what is basically the exact opposite of condemning the harsher sides of communism: it was named Pětiletky, a ‘pětiletka’ being a five-year plan. There was a bit of a time lag between…
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V lučinách was built in 1925. Until 1952, the street was part of V Zátiší (coming up), but then it was separated and became its own street. A further portion of V Zátiší was given to V lučinách in 1979. A ‘lučina’ is a synonym for ‘louka’, i.e. a meadow. We’ve been on this topic…
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Vltavanů was named in 1998. In 1871, an association was formed in Podskalí (https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2024/08/26/prague-2-day-122-podskalska/). Its full name was ‘Vzájemně se podporující spolek plavců, rybářů a pobřežných Vltavan’, translating loosely as ‘The Mutually Supportive Association of Swimmers, Fishermen and Coastal Guards: Vltavan’. One of the founding members was František Dittrich, a Podskalí native who had once…
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In 1178, Soběslav II, Duke of Bohemia, declared that he was giving the Vyšehrad Chapter (https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2024/08/24/prague-2-day-94-k-rotunde/) a gift – some land in Modřany. This is the earliest confirmed mention of the place. The origin of the name isn’t clear, but experts think it may have been named after the ‘hyacint modrý’, the blue hyacinth. Further…
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