bratislavl

Updated: July 3, 2026

Czechoslovakia holds Pressburg, the ancient capital and coronation-city of the Hungarian kings, and calls it Bratislavl. "They might as well have called it New York," says a Magyar contemptuously. There is nothing soft or relenting about the Magyars. They are quite implacable, and they are a fighting people. There is no good will.

Stephen Graham - Europe—Whither Bound?: Being Letters of Travel from the Capitals of Europe in the Year 1921