Bratislava (English spelling)

Japanese: ブラティスラバ（英語表記）Bratislava

The capital of the Slovak Republic. Population 452,000 (1996). German: Pressburg, Hungarian: Pozsony. Located in the northwest of the Danube lowlands of Slovakia, at the southern foot of the Little Carpathian Mountains (northwest of the Carpathian Mountains), facing the Danube River. Located about 55 km from Vienna and about 20 km from the Hungarian border, it has developed as an international city with a mixture of Slavic, German, and Hungarian peoples, as a center of railway and river traffic between the east and west of Central and Eastern Europe and between the north and south of the country.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

スロバキア共和国の首都。人口45万2000(1996)。ドイツ語でプレスブルクPressburg，ハンガリー語でポジョニュPozsony。スロバキア･ドナウ低地の北西部，小カルパチ山脈(カルパチ山脈の北西部)の南麓にあり，ドナウ川に臨む。ウィーンまで約55km，ハンガリー国境まで約20kmの所に位置し，中欧，東欧の東西･南北の鉄道交通，河川交通の中心として，歴史的にはスラブ人，ドイツ人，ハンガリー人が混在した国際都市として発達してきた。

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