Talk:Prague
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Synagogue
The city flourished during the 14th-century reign of Charles IV, who ordered the building of the New Town, the Charles Bridge, Saint Vitus Cathedral, the oldest gothic cathedral in central Europe and actually inside the Castle, the oldest synagogue in northern Europe, Maisel Synagogue....
The king ordered the building of a synagogue? --Charles A. L. 15:31, Feb 17, 2004 (UTC)
- It's probably a mistake. I've two sources stating it was built 1590-1592 at the expense of Mordechai Maisel, and granted great privileges by Rudolf II, not Charles IV. Possibly mistaken for Old-New synagogue. Wikimol 23:36, 29 May 2004 (UTC)
City template
We should fit Prague to Wikipedia:WikiProject Cities City template. Anyone willing to participate? Wikimol 23:23, 29 May 2004 (UTC)
New City
What is meant by "New City"? Is it Nové Město? Andres 17:11, 29 Jun 2004 (UTC)
- It is "Nové město pražské" or "New Town of Prague". New City is inferior translation.Wikimol
Cathedral
Under Charles IV, Saint Vitus Cathedral began to be reconstructed, not built. It wasn't originally Gothic. Andres 17:11, 29 Jun 2004 (UTC)
- No. The cathedral is the third church consecrated to the same saint on the identical site. (form Prague castle website) But it was Charles IV who started building og gothic Saint Vitus Cathedral. Wikimol 19:28, 29 Jun 2004 (UTC)
districts
We need a list of modern-day Prague districts, among other things to be able to link up Pankrác. --Joy [shallot] 12:27, 3 Sep 2004 (UTC)
- City districts have only numbers. Maybe list of places & geographical names of Prague? --Wikimol 12:45, 15 Sep 2004 (UTC)
- Regardless, I'd still want to see a list of them and a map, or at least a description of their locations. --Joy [shallot] 18:06, 15 Sep 2004 (UTC)
- Actually it's more complicated - before 1994 Prague was divided into 10 numbered districts, or saidly 'district groups' (Praha 1 - Praha 10), each one consisting of few (named) districts. That changed, some named districts were grouped and renamed to numbered (Praha 11 - Praha 22), numbered ones shrinked, etc. Now there are 22 numbered so called 'administrative districts' (state administration), most of them including few named municipal districts (self-goverment, elected bodies). It could be seen on [1] (http://www.praha-mesto.cz/main.aspx?ido=1443&sh=-684065637). However, everyone and their dog always used district names rather than numbers, so i think list would be appropriate. -- JohnyDog 18:22, 16 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- Well, but many municipal districts (self-goverment, elected bodies) have only numbers. Only marginal municipal districts, created from comunites which joint Prague relatively recently, have unambigous names. The only official name to describe place where I live is "Prague 8" and in common language I usualy use name of nearby Metro station.
- After some thought I created Prague city districts based on this talkpage and cadastral territory names.
- --Wikimol 14:49, 17 Oct 2004 (UTC)
If One Were From Prague
- What do you call a person from Prague?--130.184.150.171 04:01, 10 Dec 2004 (UTC)
- Pražák (singular),
- Pražáci (plural)
No, this is colloquial Czech. The correct one is Pražan and Pražané.
- It is colloquial Czech but the proper form is almost unseen. Pavel Vozenilek 17:41, 23 May 2005 (UTC)
