ABSTRACT
The name Bratislava is hardly found in the historical annals. Nevertheless, the city of Bratislava is one of the oldest settlements on Central Europe’s main river, the Danube. For centuries, Prešporok was the Slovak name for Bratislava, in German it was known as Pressburg, in Hungarian Pozsony, and Posonium in Latin. Only after the city had become part of the newly established Czechoslovak Republic in 1918 did the new state representatives decide to rename the city for the historic local castle, Wratislaburgium, or Wratislav’s castle (Horváth, 1990).1 Nevertheless, its various historical names remained in use during the twentieth century.
