What's in a Prague street name

Every street in Prague, one by one.

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  • Jánošíkova was built in 1969. Juraj Jánošík was born in Terchová, near Žilina in Slovakia, in 1688. Around 1706, he joined the army of Francis II Rákóczi, a Hungarian nobleman who had been waging a war of independence against the Habsburgs since 1703. Within a couple of years, however, he had joined the Imperial Army…