Preßburg is the historical name (in German and in English) for the city of Bratislava. Alternative forms of this name are Posonium (in Latin) and Pozsony (in Hungarian).
Pressburg is picturesquely situated on the left bank of the Danube, at the base of the outlying spurs of the Little Carpathians, in a position of strategical importance near the Porta Hungarica.
Pressburg was the capital of Hungary from 1541 until 1784, while the Hungarian parliament held its sittings here till 1848.
After the battle of Mohacs in 1526 and the capture of Buda by the Turks, Pressburg became the capital of Hungary.
As Pressburg, it developed as a trade centre and became a free royal town in 1291.
Among its members were the newly created kingdoms of Bavaria and Württenberg (see Pressburg, Treaty of), the grand duchies of Baden, Hesse-Darmstadt, and Berg, and a number of other...
His alliance with French Emperor Napoleon I earned him the royal title and vast territorial increases at the Treaty of Pressburg (1805) and made him one of the chief members of the Confederation of the Rhine.
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