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Reportage - Bratislava: a City of Layers
Images and notes are from the paper presented to the Urban Affairs Association, 32nd Annual Meeting, March 20-23, 2002, Boston:
"The Transformationof Post-IndependenceBratislava, Slovakia"
by Clyde Mitchell-Weaver and Bethann Ritter, Graduate School of Public & International Affairs, University of Pittsburgh, USA
by Clyde Mitchell-Weaver | Bethann Ritter
A brief history of Bratislava
• First permanent settlement, 300-200 BC
• Northern-most Roman Limes in Danubian region
• Capital of 9th Century Great Moravian Empire
• 11th Century Hungarian capital during Islamic occupation
• Coronation seat of Hapsburg monarchs
• Largest Slovak city in both interwar and com-munist Czechoslovakia
• Since 1993, it is the metropolis and capital of the Slovak Republic




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ISSN 1723-0993 | Registered at Court of Rome 4/12/2001, num. 514/2001
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