wahat does....

[KARL]

...Bystrica (with spelling variations) mean in the various Slavonic languages ? I note that it occurs in place names in different countries and assume/imagine it may mean any of Upper, Lower, Outer, etc. or even some compass direction. Trying google translation gets me nowhere.

[jno]

a swift stream

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bansk%C3%A1_Bystr ica#Etymology