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39 unusual facts about Bratislava


2009 ban of Hungarian President from Slovakia

On August 20, Miroslav Lajčák, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Slovakia officially informed Antal Heizer, ambassador of Hungary in Bratislava that László Sólyom is not recommended to cross the border on the next day.

Andrej Studenic

Andrej Studenic (born 18 June 1977 in Bratislava) is a racing driver.

Balthasar Ferdinand Moll

The reliefs on the sides of the sarcophagus depict important scenes of their lives : the ceremonial entrance in Florence as archduke of Tuscany, his coronation in Frankfurt am Main, his coronation in Prague as King of Bohemia, and the coronation ceremony in Bratislava of Maria Theresia.

Bardejov

At that time only Bratislava, Košice and Levoča had larger number of craftsmen and guilds than Bardejov.

Berl Broder

His first book of poetry was published in 1860 in Pressburg, the second in Lemberg, and the third (1882) in Warsaw.

Bodolz

Since the signing of the peace treaties of Brünn and Preßburg in 1805, the town belongs to Bavaria.

Bratislava railway station

Bratislava-Petržalka railway station, located in Petržalka, currently a terminal station for trains from Austria

Bratislava Stock Exchange

Bratislava Stock Exchange (Slovak: Burza cenných papierov v Bratislave, abbr. BSSE, BCPB) is a Stock Exchange in Bratislava, that began its existence on 15 March 1991 according to adjudication of Ministry of Finance of Slovakia in 1990.

Cyril Blažo

Blažo was educated in Bratislava, attending supš from 1984 to 1988, and the Academy of Fine Arts and Design (VŠVU) from 1988 to 1994.

Davide Antonio Fossati

In 1728 he painted the dining-hall in the monastery of St. Martinsberg at Pressburg; but in 1730 he returned to Venice, and in the next year executed the wall-paintings in the villa at Torre, near Este, as also in the nunnery of Santa Margaretta, near Lauis.

Eduard Ovčáček

Between 1957 and 1963 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava (Slovakia) under professor Peter Matejka.

Emila Medková

, Obvodné kultúrne a spoločenské stredisko Bratislava II, Spoločenský dom Trnávka, Bratislava

Gorilla scandal

The first popular political protest took place at the SNP Square in Bratislava on 27 January 2012.

Both wiretaps record conversations held from 2005 to 2006 in some parts of one flat located at Vazovova Street No. 9/A in Bratislava, Slovakia.

Heinrich Gattineau

He spent much of the Second World War in Bratislava as a director of Dynamit-Nobel-Fabrik and other Czechoslovakian chemical companies that had been brought under the IG Farben umbrella by the Nazis.

Humanic

Two years later Humanic opens its first store in Regensburg, Germany, and, in the same year, the first two stores in Bratislava, Slovakia.

Ignjat Granitz

He attended rabbinical school in Bratislava, but soon quit the education because of his liberal views.

Igor Kluvánek

Igor Kluvánek obtained his first degree in electrical engineering from the Slovak Polytechnic University, Bratislava, in 1953.

Institute of International Education

Current REACs are located in the following cities around the world: Lima, Mexico City, Rio de Janeiro, Budapest, Kyiv, Bratislava, Amman, Accra, Johannesburg, Lahore, Delhi, Beijing, Tokyo, and Kuala Lumpur.

Internet Problem Solving Contest

It is organized by the students and faculty members of Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics of Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia.

Josef Špaček

Five weeks before the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia, Špaček was injured in a head-on automobile collision outside the town of Havličův Brod (along the Bratislava-Prague highway) and briefly hospitalized.

Leder und Schuh

In spring 2002 Humanic opens its first store in Regensburg, Germany, and, in the same year, the first two stores in Bratislava, Slovakia.

Maierhöfen

Since the signing of the peace treaties of Brünn and Preßburg in 1805 the town belongs to Bavaria.

Miestodržiteľský palác

Miestodržiteľský palác (Vice Governor's palace in Bratislava) is an old and historically important building, located in capital of Slovakia, Bratislava, in the Main Square, Old Town.

Nicolae Mărăscu

Mărăscu had 5 caps for the newcomer Romania, without ever scoring, since his first match, in 1919, a 48-5 loss to France XV, in Paris, for the Inter-Allied Games, and his last, at 22 May 1927, in a 21-5 win over Czechoslovakia, in Bratislava.

Oleg Timchenko

After a subsequent exhibition in Bratislava, he installed a projector over an aquarium of the original size of the painting 1999 in Paris.

Palace Cinemas

In Slovakia Palace Cinemas operates multiplex cinemas in the capital city Bratislava in Aupark Shopping Center (12 screens), Polus City Center (8 screens) and Eurovea Galleria (9 screens).

People's Defense Force

They operate as the People's Defense Force out of the Bratislava Prison Superhuman Research Complex in the latter days of European communism.

Royal Choral Society

The RCS was also invited twice to perform at Slovakia's equivalent to Glastonbury – Pohoda, (which means Wellbeing) where the choir closed the opening day of the festival with a candlelit midnight concert of Rachmaninoff's Vespers, followed by a performance in Bratislava.

Second Czechoslovak Republic

There were some disagreement between Tiso and other Slovak politicians, and Karol Sidor (who had represented the Slovak government in the meeting) returned to Bratislava to discuss the matter with Tiso.

Slovan Bratislava

Slovan Bratislava is a Slovakian multi-sport club from Bratislava

Summer Archbishop's Palace

Bratislava (at that time Pozsony / Pressburg) became the capital city of Hungary.

Archbishop Georg Lippay (who was archbishop from 1642 to 1666) had the garden converted into a renaissance garden by filling it with exotic plants and trees, fountains that used water taken from the mountain springs, artificial caves and a big water pool where horses used to bathe.

Telefónica Europe

On 28 February O2 launched classic services and opened first shop in Slovakia (in Bratislava on Obchodná street).

Vienna–Bratislava–Budapest Supermarathon

The ViennaBratislavaBudapest Supermarathon (Vienna–Budapest Supermarathon until 2005) is a 320 kilometer five-day ultramarathon connecting the capitals of Austria, Slovakia and Hungary.

Viliam Loviska

Further he continued his study at The Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava, Slovakia since 1982, where he studied in the Studio of Prof. Ladislav Snopek, Teodor Banik, and later in the Studio of Prof. Jan Kulich and Prof. Albín Brunovský.

Viliam Loviska (born in 12 August 1964 in Bratislava, Slovakia) is a famous Slovak sculptor, painter, designer, educator and organiser of the cultural life.

Vladimír Kompánek

Between 1947 - 1949 he studied at the Slovak Technical University in Bratislava, then from 1949 - 1954 at the College of Fine Arts.

Weiler-Simmerberg

Since the signing of the peace treaties of Brünn und Preßburg in 1805, the town belongs to Bavaria.


Andrej Sládkovič

He studied at his home town (1826–30), in Peretvönyi (1830–31), later attended gymnasium in Krupina and Evangelical lyceums in Banská Štiavnica (Selmecbánya) (1839–40) and Pressburg (Pozsony, present Bratislava) (1840–1842) and finally studied theology at the University of Halle (1843–44).

Apor Péc

When king Ladislaus IV led a campaign against Ivan Kőszegi and captured Kőszeg in 1286, Apor Péc, in alliance with Nicholas Kőszegi, besieged and occupied the castle of Pressburg (Pozsony; today Bratislava, Slovakia), as well as devastated its surrounding area in winter that year.

Belgrade Book Fair

So far, the Prize winners were the Austrian publisher Wieser Verlag from Klagenfurt (2007), French publisher Gaia Editions from Bordeaux (2008), Hungarian publisher Jelenkor from Pécs (2009), Italian publisher Zandonai from Rovereto (2010), Bulgarian publisher Siela from Sofia (2011) and Slovak publisher Kaligram from Bratislava (2012).

Bratislava Jazz Days

Bratislava Jazz Days (BJD) is a festival of modern jazz, taking place in Bratislava (Slovakia), usually at Park kultúry a oddychu (Hall of the Culture and Leisure Park).

Caproni Ca.3

The accident occurred at the conclusion of a flight to Campo Formido near Udine to Bratislava (capital of Slovakia).

Carpathian Mountains

The most important cities in or near the Carpathians are: Bratislava and Košice in Slovakia; Kraków in Poland; Cluj-Napoca, Sibiu and Braşov in Romania; and Miskolc in Hungary.

Devínska Nová Ves

The wider presence of Croatian settlers is recalled by local place names such as Chorvátsky Grob, north-east of Bratislava (Chorvátsko is the Slovak name for Croatia).

Dissidenten

In 2000, with American composer Gordon Sherwood, video artist Stefanie Seidl and the Bratislava Orchestra under Petr Feranec they created The Memory of the Waters, a “documentary opera” about the River Danube, debut performed at the International Danube Music Festival in the city of Ulm.

Dlhé diely

It is one of the newest residential quarters of the city, it is situated at the foothills of the Little Carpathians overlooking the river Danube, offering extensive views over Bratislava and Austria.

FA Inter-League Cup

After a 1–2 defeat to the Bratislava team (Slovakia) a 3–2 win over the hosting Hradec Králové team left the side with a chance of qualifying for the finals.

Gyula Breyer

He was buried in Bratislava and after exhumation in 1987, was reburied in the Kerepesi Cemetery in Budapest.

Hrubá

Hrubá Borša, village and municipality in western Slovakia in Senec District in the Bratislava Region

Johann Kaspar Mertz

János Gáspár Mertz (Casparus Josephus Mertz) was born in Pozsony, Kingdom of Hungary, now Bratislava (Slovakia).

Karlova Ves

The original village lied on the western slopes of the Bratislava Foothills, the southernmost part of the Devín Carpathians mountain range, in the valley of the Karloveský stream, on both of its sides.

Michal Riszdorfer

He was born in Bratislava and lived in Komárno, home to a sizeable Hungarian community on the shores of the Danube, since his early childhood.

Milan Kolibiar

Milan Kolibiar (* February 14, 1922 Detvianska Huta, † July 9, 1994 Bratislava) was a Slovak mathematician.

Miro Gavran

There have been first nights of his plays throughout the world, in: Rotterdam, Washington, D.C., Moscow, Rio de Janeiro, Paris, Buenos Aires, Waterford, Mumbai, Bratislava, Prague, Ljubljana, Sarajevo, Krakow, Belgrade, Budapest, Athens, Augsburg, Vienna and Sofia.

Park kultúry a oddychu

For two months, there was a public discussion initiated by Mayor of Bratislava Milan Ftáčnik.

Petra Feriancova

Her work has been exhibited extensively, solo at ISCP (New York, 2011), House of Arts Brno (2012), Slovak National Gallery (Bratislava, 2011), Moravian Gallery (Brno, 2008), and within group institutional exhibitions at BWA (Wroclaw, 2011), Sztuki Museum Lodz (2011), Secession (Vienna, 2010), Museum of Modern Art of Saint-Etienne (2008) and many others.

Šakvice train disaster

A local train was standing at the Šakvice station near Brno, when the Prague-Bratislava express ran into it, resulting in 103 deaths and a further 83 injured.

SANET

International connectivity is provided through cross-border dark fibres at 10 Gbit/s to the ACOnet node in Vienna, the CESNET node in Brno and the PIONIER node in Bielsko-Biała, as well as local links in Bratislava to the points of presence of GÉANT (1 Gbit/s) and of GTS (2Gbit/s).

Silvia Sorina Munteanu

Aside from her native country, she has performed in Frankfurt, Essen, Sofia, Varna, Prague, Bratislava, and Budapest, as well as at festivals in other European countries, Thailand, and the United States.

Sin Mirar Atrás

Sin Mirar Atrás was recorded in studios from cities as Madrid, Miami, Los Angeles, Mexico, Bratislava, London, Stockholm and São Paulo.

Štefan Znám

Štefan Znám (9 February 1936, Veľký Blh – 17 July 1993, Bratislava) was a Slovak- Hungarian mathematician, believed to be the first to ponder Znám's problem in modern times.

Tiziano Fratus

Fratus directed the videopoems into the man (2004) presented in Genoa International Poetry Festival, in Rome Contemporary Art Museum (Macro), catalogued in the Scottish Poetry Library in Edinburgh and in Poets House in New York, and the slogger (2005) presented in Parco Poesia in Riccione and Ars Poetica in Bratislava.

Vienna Volksoper

In 1987, the opera house was used for a scene set in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia (now part of Slovakia), for the James Bond film The Living Daylights, where Timothy Dalton made his debut as Bond near the very beginning of the film, where he first spotted the key female character Kara Milovy (played by Maryam d'Abo).

Wien Südbahnhof

Two railway lines were planned, extending from Vienna to the south and east: one to Wiener Neustadt and Gloggnitz, and one via Bruck an der Leitha to Győr (German: Raab), with an extension to Uj-Szöny (now a suburb of Komárom) and a branch line to Pozsony (now Bratislava).