I recently visited Bratislava and took a public transport. I was surprised to see a bus stop named after Georgias capital Tbilisi. Is there a reason why it’s named after it?
by 69Pumpkin_Eater
I recently visited Bratislava and took a public transport. I was surprised to see a bus stop named after Georgias capital Tbilisi. Is there a reason why it’s named after it?
by 69Pumpkin_Eater
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Lots of streets require lots of names.
In general, since Georgia was part of USSR, I would guess that their names (and capitals) was much more probable as a pick during the socialist era for a street. But that’s just a guess.
I see plenty of streets especially in Bratislava named after places in the former Soviet Union.
A lot of streets/areas were named after then soviet cities and things during the socialist era (You also have Moskovská, Tupolevova, Varšavská and Krakovská streets in Bratislava for example) to my knowledge this was a pretty common naming practice in most eastern bloc countries.
65 bus is an interresting cultural experience:)
Sídlisko Ťahanovce (not to be confused with the former village of Ťahanovce) in Košice has a similar logic to their street names. Originally they were named after communist capitals (Hanojská, Berlínska, Budapeštianska, Pekinská…), but after the revolution the remaining ones that started construction before the revolution had to be named after non-communist capitals (Viedeňská, Aténska, Helsinská a Bruselská). Not Madridská, it’s in Ťahanovce.
Bratislava’s streets can help you in r/iafisher if you’re into that sort of thing.
Socialist era street names
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