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
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
"It was in the vicinity of Pressburg, which is now a part of Czechoslovakia," said Lilienthal.
From Time Magazine Archive
Traces of it exist in a work published at Pressburg by Johann Matthias Korabinsky in 1784, its insertion being due to the assumption that the Bachs were a Hungarian family.
From Johann Sebastian Bach by Johann Nikolaus Forkel
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