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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.

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.

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.

Henrik Bródy

Educated in the public schools of his native town and at the rabbinical colleges of Tolcsva and Pressburg, Hungary, Brody also studied at the Hildesheimer Theological Seminary and at the University of Berlin, being an enthusiastic scholar of the Hebrew language and literature.

Ľudovít Štúr

In 1846, Štúr got to know the yeoman Ostrolúcky family in Zemianske Podhradie (Nemesváralja), who later helped him to become a deputy in the Hungarian Diet in Pressburg.

Maierhöfen

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

Meir Eisenstaedter

Eisenstaedter studied at the Mattersdorf yeshiva in Nagymarton, Burgenland under Moses Schreiber, a renowned rabbi who later became the chief rabbi of Pressburg (Pozsony, now Bratislava in Slovakia).

Michael's Gate

During the coronation of 19 Hungarian kings (1563–1830) in Bratislava (Pressburg), (Pozsony), the ruler would enter with his coronation entourage by the way of the Vydrica Gate, get crowned at St. Martin's Cathedral and one of the stops following the coronation during the procession through the town was the stop at St. Michael's Gate, where the new king would pledge his king's oath to the hands of the archbishop.

Raeapteek

Between 1579 and 1581, a Hungarian immigrant named Johann Burchart Belavary de Sykava, moved to Tallinn from his home town of Pressburg (present day Bratislava) and obtained a lease from the city council to run the business of the pharmacy.

Summer Archbishop's Palace

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

Weiler-Simmerberg

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


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