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Pressburg

American  
[pres-boork] / ˈprɛsˌbʊərk /

noun

  1. German name of Bratislava.


Pressburg British  
/ ˈprɛsbʊrk /

noun

  1. the German name for Bratislava

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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

Exception: Czechoslovakia will not consider giving up the vital Danube port of Bratislava, once Hungary's Pressburg.

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

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

A Hungarian court chancery was now established at Vienna, while the government of Hungary proper was committed to a royal stadholdership at Pressburg.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 8 "Hudson River" to "Hurstmonceaux" by Various