- eper (strawberry).
Other alternative names of the city
include German:
Preschau or Eperies,
Hungarian Eperjes,
Polish Preszów,
Romany Peryeshis, Russian...
- Prešov
Eperies (German alternate),
Eperjes (Hungarian),
Peryeshis (Romani),
Preschau (German), Presovia, Fragopolis,
Eperiessinum (Latin), Prešov (Czech, Slovak)...
- Prague Czech
Republic Prag
Pravdinsk Russia
Friedland Prešov Slovakia
Preschau,
Eperies Primorsk Russia
Fischhausen Prudnik Poland
Neustadt in Oberschlesien...
- Považská
Bystrica Waagbistritz Prešov
Eperies Compare Hungarian name
Eperjes Preschau Prievidza Priwitz Púchov
Puchau Pucho in
Empire of
Austria Rajec Rajetz...
-
Pozsony Preßburg/Pressburg Košice K****a
Kaschau Prešov
Eperjes Eperies /
Preschau Žilina
Zsolna Sillein Banská
Bystrica Besztercebánya
Neusohl Nitra Nyitra...
- (Großwardein) P****au, 1255 Pécs (Fünfkirchen) Pest, 1244
Piatra Neamț Prešov (
Preschau), 1374 Regensburg, 1207/1230 Rimavská
Sobota (Großsteffelsdorf) Salzburg...
- Historically, the city has been
known as
Eperjes in Hungarian,
Eperies or
Preschau in German,
Fragopolis in Greco-Latin, Preszów in Polish,
Peryeshis in Romany...
-
essayist of
Hungarian birth, Emil
Reich (1854–1910). A
Catholic born at
Preschau in Slovakia,
Reich studied at Prague, Budapest, and Vienna..." W. B. Owen...