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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Prague - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Bridges over the Vltava River, as seen from Letná. Prague panorama. Upstream Vltava River from Charles Bridge. Prague, New Town. A weir on the Vltava River, under the castle in background. The name Prague comes from an old Slavic root, praga, which means Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Prague - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Bridges over the Vltava River, as seen from Letná. Prague panorama. Upstream Vltava River from Charles Bridge. Prague, New Town. A weir on the Vltava River, under the castle in background. The name Prague comes from an old Slavic root, praga, which means ford, referring to the city's origin at a crossing of the Vltava River. The native name of the city, Praha, is also related to the modern Czech word práh (threshold). A legendary etymology connects the name of the city with duchess Libue, prophetess and a wife of mythical founder of the Pemyslid dynasty. She is said to have ordered "the city to be built where a man hews a threshold of his house". Czech práh shall be understood here as to be in the river, rapids or cataract: its edge as a passage to the other riverside. Contrarily, although there are a few weirs nowadays, there was not discovered any such geological threshold in the river under the Prague Castle. Thus some derive the name Praha from the stone of the hill, where the original castle was built: na praz, the original term for shale rock. (In those days, there were forests around the castle, on the nine hills of the future city: the Old Town on the other riverbank as well as the Lesser Town underneath the castle appeared later.) Prague seen from Spot Satellite. Prague Castle at night. St. Vitus Cathedral. The history of Prague spans thousands of years, during which time the city grew from a castle known as Vyehrad to the multicultural capital of a modern European state, the Czech Republic. The area on which Prague was founded was settled as early as the Paleolithic age. Around 200 BC the Celts established a settlement in the south, called Závist, but later they were replaced by the Books, , Landmarks-in-the-Czech-Republic~~Books-LLC, , , , , , , , , , General Books LLC<