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	Pressburg - LoveToKnow 1911
		Pressburg is picturesquely situated on the left bank of the Danube, at the base of the outlying spurs of the Little Carpathians, in a position of strategical importance near the Porta Hungarica.
		Pressburg was the capital of Hungary from 1541 until 1784, while the Hungarian parliament held its sittings here till 1848.
		After the battle of Mohacs in 1526 and the capture of Buda by the Turks, Pressburg became the capital of Hungary.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Pressburg (720 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Pressburg,
		As Pressburg, it developed as a trade centre and became a free royal town in 1291.
		Among its members were the newly created kingdoms of Bavaria and Württenberg (see Pressburg, Treaty of), the grand duchies of Baden, Hesse-Darmstadt, and Berg, and a number of other...
		His alliance with French Emperor Napoleon I earned him the royal title and vast territorial increases at the Treaty of Pressburg (1805) and made him one of the chief members of the Confederation of the Rhine.
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Pressburg,&StartAt=1 (740 words)

	Peace of Pressburg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The 1st Peace of Pressburg was signed in Bratislava on July 2 1271 between the Czech king Ottakar II and the Hungarian king Stephen V of Hungary.
		The 2nd Peace of Pressburg (more often called Treaty of Pressburg or Treaty of Bratislava) was signed in Bratislava on November 7 1491 between Maximilian of Habsburg, the archduke of Austria and German emperor, and Ladislaus II, the king of Hungary.
		The 3rd Peace of Pressburg was signed in Bratislava on December 30 1626 between Gabor Bethlen, the leader of the Bethlen Uprising (1619-1626) – one of the anti-Habsburg uprisings of the 17th century in Slovakia, and the emperor Ferdinand II of Habsburg.
	www.kernersville.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Peace_of_Pressburg (308 words)

	Treaty of Pressburg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Treaty of Pressburg was signed on December 26, 1805 between France and Austria as a consequence of the Austrian defeats by France at Ulm (September 25 - October 20) and Austerlitz (December 2).
		A truce was agreed on December 4 and negotiations for the treaty began.
		The treaty was signed at the Primate's Palace in Pressburg (since 1919 called Bratislava) by Napoleon and the Holy Roman Emperor Francis II.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Treaty_of_Pressburg (245 words)

	Peace of Pressburg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The First Peace of Pressburg was signed in Bratislava on July 2, 1271 between King Otakar II of Bohemia and King Stephen V of Hungary.
		The Second Peace of Pressburg (also known as the Treaty of Pressburg and the Treaty of Bratislava) was signed in Bratislava on November 7, 1491 between Emperor Maximilian I and King Ladislaus II of Hungary.
		The Third Peace of Pressburg was signed in Bratislava on December 30, 1626 between Gabriel Bethlen of Transylvania, the leader of an uprising against the Habsburg Monarchy from 1619-1626, and Emperor Ferdinand II.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Peace_of_Pressburg (296 words)

	Red Bluff Daily News Online - News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Pressburg said the board, production directors and actors have been troubled not only because it is virtually impossible to anticipate what might offend every single audience member, but because most of the people involved at the theater find it repugnant not to perform plays the way the author intended them to be seen."
		Likewise, Pressburg added, anyone who has attended performances of the locally-produced, written and acted Wild Oak comedy troupe knows its satirical skits are not hindered by fears of offending and that the mature nature of its comedy does not keep audiences from packing its performances.
		Interestingly, Pressburg said, the State Theatre, which is the most "mainstream" of local venues, now regularly hosts "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" a film augmented by performances of live actors and audience participants which many people find highly offensive for its graphic sexuality.
	www.redbluffdailynews.com /Stories/0,1413,134~26762~2869740,00.html (697 words)

	Bratislava for the Gourmet (Spectacular Slovakia travel guide)
		At Pressburg, the new sausage shop near the Old Town, some of the first fruits of the new Bratislava are on display.
		Pressburg is the brainchild of its owner-manager, Bohumír Horr, a Bratislava native who recently returned to the city after 13 years in New York.
		He is also considering renting the space next door and turning it into a small dining room, featuring his own charcuterie along with beer and wine by the glass.
	www.spectacularslovakia.sk /ss2003/02_for_the_goumet.html (1001 words)

	Rabbi Moshe Sofer - The Chasam Sofer
		For five years, the community of Pressburg searched for someone capable of succeeding this great man. Ultimately, Rabbi Moshe Sofer was invited to take this prestigious position and, in 1806, Rabbi Sofer became the Chief Rabbi of Pressburg.
		Then, in 1809, Pressburg was bombarded and invaded by the army of Napoleon.
		Rabbi Sofer passed away in 1839 and was succeeded in Pressburg by his son, Rabbi Avraham Sofer.
	members.aol.com /lazera/ChasamSofer.htm (504 words)

	MyJewishLearning.com - History & Community: Moses Sofer
		It is a curious fact that each of the three Sofers served as the Rabbi of Pressburg for thirty-three years and both the last two were appointed at the age of 29.
		The original Pressburg Yeshivah was founded by the Hatam Sofer, who, like his successors, was Dean of the Yeshivah as well as Rabbi of the town.
		This is the main reason why in the Pressburg Yeshivah and its many offshoots in Hungary the emphasis was on practical law, while in the Lithuanian Yeshivot it was on pure theory and keen analysis of legal concepts.
	www.myjewishlearning.com /history_community/Modern/ModernReligionCulture/MoreEmergence/Orthodox_Judaism/Jacobs_Sofer.htm (803 words)

	Bratislava, Slovakia, Pictures
		Bratislava (German Pressburg; Hungarian Pozsony), capital and largest city in Slovakia, on the Danube River, near Vienna, Austria.
		Strong fortifications erected during the 12th century gave it strategic importance; from 1541 to 1784 it was the capital of Hungary.
		In 1805, during the Napoleonic Wars, French Emperor Napoleon I met the Holy Roman Emperor Francis II in the city and imposed the peace terms known as the Treaty of Pressburg.
	www.greatestcities.com /Europe/Slovakia/Bratislava_Pressburg_Pozsony_city_state_capital.html (256 words)

	Shofar FTP Archives: imt/nca/nca-06//nca-06-3618-ps
		Father Tiso sent a telegram to Berlin requesting aid from Germany, while Durcansky, who had escaped to Vienna, the headquarters of the separatist movement in Germany, in a radio address refused to recognize the legality of Prague's action in dismissing [Page 391] the Cabinet, proclaiming that he was the legal representative of the Slovak government.
		It was reported from Pressburg that heavy fighting had occurred between Slovaks and Hungarian irregulars in the Lower and Upper Metzenseifen.
		Another press dispatch from Pressburg announced that it was reported from Chust that the Ukrainian people have opposed with all their might the Hungarian occupation.
	www.nizkor.org /ftp.py?imt/nca/nca-06//nca-06-3618-ps (2840 words)

	Slovakia - Travel Photos by Galen R Frysinger, Sheboygan, Wisconsin
		Founded before the 10th century, the city was known originally as Pressburg.
		Strong fortifications erected during the 12th century gave it strategic importance; from 1541 to 1784 it was the capital of Hungary.
		In 1805, during the Napoleonic Wars, French Emperor Napoleon I met the Holy Roman Emperor Francis II in the city and imposed the peace terms known as the Treaty of Pressburg.
	www.galenfrysinger.com /slovakia.htm (222 words)

	Shofar FTP Archives: imt/nca/nca-06/nca-06-3618-ps
		Father Tiso sent a telegram to Berlin requesting aid from Germany, while Durcansky, who had escaped to Vienna, the headquarters of the separatist movement in Germany, in a radio address refused to recognize the legality of Prague's action in dismissing [Page 391] the Cabinet, proclaiming that he was the legal representative of the Slovak government.
		It was reported from Pressburg that heavy fighting had occurred between Slovaks and Hungarian irregulars in the Lower and Upper Metzenseifen.
		Another press dispatch from Pressburg announced that it was reported from Chust that the Ukrainian people have opposed with all their might the Hungarian occupation.
	www.vex.net /~nizkor/ftp.cgi/imt/nca/ftp.py?imt/nca/nca-06/nca-06-3618-ps (2840 words)

	Encyclopedia: Treaty of Pressburg (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		December 26 is the 360th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, 361st in leap years.
		Bratislava (Pozsony in Hungarian; until 1919 PreÅ¡porok in Slovak and Pressburg in German (previously also the usual name in English)) is the capital of Slovakia and the countrys largest city, with a population of some 430,000.
		Francis II Francis I Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor, who may also be referred to as Francis von Habsburg or Emperor Franz I of Austria (February 12, 1768 - March 2, 1835) was the last Holy Roman Emperor, ruling from 1792 until August 6, 1806, when the Empire was disbanded.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Treaty-of-Pressburg (698 words)

	BareStage News: April 2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Even if the play reading committee had to select the plays right now, Pressburg said, the theatre would have two weekends of very different, very interesting plays to produce.
		But, as happy as the theatre is to have plays submitted from across the country, Pressburg added, the judges are also looking forward to considering plays from more northern California playwrights.
		BareStage Artistic Director, Bryon Burruss, also a playwright, said that the festival is the perfect opportunity for those who may never have written a play before to try their hand at it.
	barestage.blogspot.com /2005_04_01_barestage_archive.html (665 words)

	Croatian composer Joseph Haydn, by William H. Hadow (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Samuel Bockshorn (Capricornus), conductor, born in 1629 at Pressburg.
		Anton Zimmermann, composer, born in 1750 at Pressburg.
		Friedrich Fischer, singer, born in 1809 at Pressburg.
	www.hr /darko/etf/hadow4 (1394 words)

	Shofar FTP Archives: people/e/eichmann.adolf/transcripts/Sessions/Session-084-05
		This is a communication from the Foreign Ministry - Luther - to the German legation in Pressburg, dated 16 February 1942.
		This is a communication from Wisliceny to the German legation in Pressburg, Ministerialrat Dr. Grueninger, dated 28 April 1942, saying that an ordinance from the Central Office for the Economy has secured Jewish movable property.
		This is a communication from the Foreign Ministry, signed Luther, to the legation in Pressburg.
	www.vex.net /~nizkor/ftp.cgi/people/e/eichmann.adolf/transcripts/ftp.py?people/e/eichmann.adolf/transcripts/Sessions/Session-084-05 (1513 words)

	The European revolution of 1848
		The nationalistic leader Kossuth was prominent at Diets of Pressburg (Bratislava) of 1840 and 1844 in securing the position of the Magyar tongue as the official language, and as the language of public education.
		The Magyar kingdom had been established after the Magyars, as a powerful and somewhat martial people, had migrated into the Carpathian basin where they established their sway over some of the neighbouring Slavic peoples with the result that the kingdom in 1848 was dominated by the Magyars but was also peopled by various Slav minorities.
		The Latin tongue had been somewhat accessible to the other ethnicities represented at Pressburg as it was often represented in classical traditions of education besides being a prominent language of religion and scholarship.
	www.age-of-the-sage.org /history/1848/revolution_of_1848.html (2061 words)

	Pressburg, Treaty of -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		(Dec. 26, 1805), agreement signed by Austria and France at Pressburg (now Bratislava, Slovakia) after Napoleon's victories at Ulm and Austerlitz; it imposed severe terms on Austria.
		More results on "Pressburg, Treaty of" when you join.
		His 68,000 troops defeated almost 90,000 Russians and Austrians nominally under General M.I. Kutuzov, forcing Austria to make peace with France (Treaty of Pressburg) and keeping Prussia temporarily out of the anti-French alliance.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article?tocId=9061299 (786 words)

	Great Rabbis' Books
		Rabbi Sofer, as he called himself, became Chief Rabbi of Pressburg in 1806 and remained there until his death in 1839.
		Pressburg is today known as Bratislava and is located in today’s Slovakia.
		Those who have read the life of Napoleon Bonaparte know that he invaded Pressburg in 1809 after he had won the Battles of Jena and Austerlitz in 1805 (Read one of the innumerable biographies of Napoleon - do it now).
	www.jbuff.com /c082902.htm (920 words)

	Judaism 101 - Rabbi Moshe Sofer (The Chasam Sofer) - A Glossary of Basic Jewish Terms and Concepts - OU.ORG
		On the eve of WWII Rabbi Meir Shapiro visited Prague and Pressburg and found that Prague’s Judaism lay in its famous cemetery, while Pressburg’s Judaism was very much alive.
		Rabbi Shapiro attributed the contrast to the firm approach of the Chasam Sofer in Pressburg as compared with the conciliatory, compromising approach of the leaders of Prague.
		He even wrote a remarkable description (Sefer HaZikaron) of Napoleon’s siege of Pressburg in 1809, describing the miraculous fate of the Jewish population of Pressburg.
	www.ou.org /about/judaism/rabbis/sofer.htm (578 words)

	Carpathian German History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		In Pressburg, in 1850, of 42,238 inhabitants, 31,509 or 74.6%, were German, 7.4% Magyars, mostly officials, and Slovaks, mostly workers and servants, 17.9%.
		During the 1940 Census, the Slovaks, eager to show that they were now a majority in their capital, pressured the local Germans in Pressburg, still a fifth of the population, to register as Slovaks, and were angered when the latter resisted.The government opened schools in German areas and forced children from mixed marriages to attend.
		And after the 1944 uprising, DP leaders such as Leo Kowal, Kreisleiter of Pressburg, Chrobok, Kreisleiter of Goellnitz, and Dr. Scholz, the Kreisleiter for Unterzips, were thrown into KZ's for strongly protesting against the wanton executions and deportations by Gestapo and SS of Jewish civilians who were innocent of any crimes during the uprising.
	www.geocities.com /ycrtmr/history.htm (14727 words)

	Pressburg (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		In 1741 Empress Maria Theresa of Austria fled to Bratislava when Vienna was threatened by French and Bavarian troops.
		The so-called Peace of Pressburg (1805) was signed by Napoleon and the Austrian emperor Francis II, after the Battle of Austerlitz, in the city's Baroque Archbishop's Palace.
		Following World War I, Bratislava was made the capital of Slovakia in the first Czechoslovakian Republic, and it remained the capital when Slovakia emerged as an independent nation in 1993.
	www.hfac.uh.edu /gbrown/philosophers/leibniz/britannicapages/Pressburg/Pressburg.html (349 words)

	Carpathian German History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		In Pressburg, in 1850, of 42,238 inhabitants, 31,509 or 74.6%, were German, 7.4% Magyars, mostly officials, and Slovaks, mostly workers and servants, 17.9%.
		During the 1940 Census, the Slovaks, eager to show that they were now a majority in their capital, pressured the local Germans in Pressburg, still a fifth of the population, to register as Slovaks, and were angered when the latter resisted.The government opened schools in German areas and forced children from mixed marriages to attend.
		And after the 1944 uprising, DP leaders such as Leo Kowal, Kreisleiter of Pressburg, Chrobok, Kreisleiter of Goellnitz, and Dr. Scholz, the Kreisleiter for Unterzips, were thrown into KZ's for strongly protesting against the wanton executions and deportations by Gestapo and SS of Jewish civilians who were innocent of any crimes during the uprising.
	home.comcast.net /~cmickelsen/CarpathianGermanHistory.htm (14454 words)

	Untitled Document
		Bratislava and Pressburg are two names of the same city used in different historical periods.
		The older name of Pressburg was used for more than a thousand years.
		Johann Nepomuk HUMMEL was born in a family of an active musician and teacher of music.
	www.ssc2002.savba.sk /venue.htm (636 words)

	Bratislava - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Pressburg, the German name (today still the official alternative German name)
		1919-1939: part of Czechoslovakia; official new name becomes "Bratislava"- instead of "Prešporok" (Slovak) /"Pressburg" (German)/ "Pozsony" (Hungarian) in 1919
		there is a Pressburg street in the south west of Greater London
	www.secaucus.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Bratislava (1555 words)

	Carpathian German Homepage: Cities
		As a saint, she ought to appeal especially to teenagers who are feeling forlorn, for she suffered from loneliness and adversity for much of her short life, yet sublimated her pain into active service for the poor.
		This Pressburg child remained popular over the centuries as a patron of the downtrodden, especially sick children too poor to get medical care, who always were her favorites.
		In Pressburg, there was the Elisabeth Cloister in the Spitalgasse (Hospice Alley), founded in the 18th century, and the Saint Elisabeth Memorial Church, nicknamed the "Blue Church," in the Raneysgasse, built in1907.
	ourworld-top.cs.com /ycrtmr/cities.htm (1732 words)

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