Charlie Fenton’s Reviews > Prague in Black and Gold: The History of a City > Status Update

‘The important point is that Duke Borivoj (appearing under the name of Goriwei in the Latin annals of the Fulda monastery in 872) decided to erect the burg of Prague not in the solitude of wild forests but in the elevated middle of a Czech settlement close to the river... The new fortifications sat nearly astride an old route from Germany to Russia, which long-distance commercial travellers increasingly used’