Pressburg
Americannoun
noun
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In 1805, the Peace of Pressburg handed Büsingen to the southern German kingdom of Württemberg.
From New York Times ● May 15, 2012
At her palace in Pressburg, where he had been invited to fall in love with her daughter, the obstinate young man conceived a blind passion for Sophie Countess Chotek, a mere lady-in-waiting to Isabella.
From Time Magazine Archive
David Eli Lilienthal was born in the little town of Morton, Ill., the son of Jewish immigrants from a village near the old Austro-Hungarian city of Pressburg.
From Time Magazine Archive
Exception: Czechoslovakia will not consider giving up the vital Danube port of Bratislava, once Hungary's Pressburg.
From Time Magazine Archive
To Pressburg the country is hilly; then it is flat country, with trees, and often forests, on the banks.
From An Aviator's Field Book Being the field reports of Oswald Bölcke, from August 1, 1914 to October 28, 1916 by Boelcke, Oswald
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