National Revival
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Prague 4, day 261: Věkova
Věkova was built in 1933. After a brief detour, we’re back in ‘characters from novels by Alois Jirásek’ territory. František Ladislav Věk is a Czech patriot in the novel titled, well, F. L. Věk, and described (to an extent) on https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2025/12/02/prague-4-day-247-vrbova/. He is a student – and, later in the novel, a merchant from Dobruška, Continue reading
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Prague 4, day 247: Vrbova
Vrbova was built in 1935. Originally, it was two streets – one called Pod myslivnou (Under the gamekeeper’s lodge), and one called Ve studeném (a name we’ll get on to before we leave Braník). They were joined and renamed in 1973. The villa district covering parts of Braník and Hodkovičky (which is up next in this Continue reading
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Prague 2, day 15: Blanická
Originally published on Twitter on 21 November 2022. Horní (Upper) Blanická was built in 1889; Dolní (Lower) Blanická was built in 1896. They became one street in 1948. From 1940 to 1945, this was Schlözerova, after the aristocratic von Schlözer family, which included August Ludwig (1735-1809, a historian) and Dorothea (1770-1825, the first woman in Continue reading
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Prague 3, day 158: Jičínská
Originally published on Twitter on 28 September 2022. Jičínská was built in 1910. Jičín is a town of 16,000 people in the Hradec Králové Region. Initially a royal town, Jan Lucemburský sold it to the Vartenberk family in 1337. It really started to expand in 1621, when it was purchased by the military leader Albrecht von Continue reading
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Prague 3, day 14: Domažlická
Originally posted on Twitter on 7 May 2022. Domažlická was built in 1904, which counts as old compared to what we’ve covered so far. Domažlice, population 11,000, is a town in the Plzeň region, converted into a fortified royal town in 1265 by Otakar II of Bohemia. Its German name is Taus. At the Battle Continue reading
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