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Pressburg

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Pressburg [ˈprɛsbʊrk]
n
(Placename) the German name for Bratislava
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Noun1.Pressburg - capital and largest city of Slovakia
Bratislava, capital of Slovakia, Pozsony
Slovak Republic, Slovakia - a landlocked republic in central Europe; separated from the Czech Republic in 1993
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See also Amos Funkenstein's description of Western European Jews who unlike their Eastern European counterparts "lost the consciousness of being in the Diaspora, of being as Rabbi Moses of Pressburg put it, prisoners of war in alien lands.
Whither scholarship? The rabbinate vs. the academy by Seltzer, Sanford / Judaism: A Quarterly Journal of Jewish Life and Thought
Vitez collected a rich library, acquiring many volumes from the Florentine bookseller Vespasiano da Bisticci, and even founded a new university at Pressburg.
Jozef Matula, ed. Florentine Platonism and Central Europe: ... by Nauert, Charles G. / Renaissance Quarterly
Seine Arbeit hat er in Szeged einige Male unterbrochen: 1982 bis 1989 war er als Gastprofessor an der Comenius-Universitat in Pressburg und 1991 bis 1995 an der Karls-Universitat in Prag tatig.
Zum 70-Jahrigen Jubilaum Von Sandor Mokany by Toth, Szilard / Linguistica Uralica
 
 
 
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