Košice

Košice (traditionally Cassovie ; German Kaschau in and Kassa in Hungarian of the time of the Austria-Hungary) is the larger second Ville of the Slovakia. Located in the valley Hornád and encircled by the mountains of the Čierna Hora in north and the hills of the Volovské vrchy in the west, it is located only at 20 km of Hungary, 80 km of the Ukraine, and 90 km of the Poland, country with which it has important economic exchanges.

Košice is regional capital (Kraj: Autonomous region of Košice). The city the seat of several universities, the Constitutional court of Slovakia and the évêché S roman catholic, Lutheran and catholic Greek.

History

Cassovie was strengthened at the end of the 12th century by the king Émeric of Hungary. In 1270, Etienne V, and later André III increased it. In 1441 it supported a seat against the forces of Bohème.

Population

To see

Monuments

the street Hlavná
the Holy Cathedral Elisabeth
the Vault Saint Michel
the Tower Urban
the archaeological Basement
the Dominican Church
the statue of Immaculate the
the church of the Holy Trinity
the National theater
the House of Levoča
the Palate of the Count Forgács
the Palate Jakabov

Museums

the Museum of the Slovakia of the East. Nám. Maratóna mieru 2.
the Gallery of the Slovakia of the East. Hlavná 27.
the Slovak Museum of the techniques. Hlavná 88.
the Museum of justice of the Middle Ages Miklušova väznica. Pri Miklušovej väznici 10.

Famous people born or having remained in Košice

Johannes Bocatius (* 1569 † 1621)
Samuel Tiller (* 1675 † 1736), Jesuit and author of a history of the city
François II Rákóczi (* 1676 † 1735), chief of an insurrection against the Habsbourg
Gabriel Mikuláš Svajczer (* 1784 † 1845), engineer of the mines and contractor
Imre Henszlman (* 1813 † 1888), archeologist
Leopold Horowitz (* 1838 † 1917), painter
Gyula Benczúr (* 1846 † 1861), painter
Eugen Deil (* 1846 † 1908), Poet
Béla Gerster (* 1850 † 1923), Architect of the channel of Corinth
Eugen Krón (* 1882 † 1974), painter
Szilárd Kővári - Kačmarik (* 1882 † 1916), painter
Sándor Márai (* 1900 † 1989), Novelist
Vojtech Löffler (* 1906)
Rudolf Schuster (* 1934), mayor of Košice then president of the Slovakia of 1999 with 2004
Štefan Roskoványi (* 1946 † 2002), painter
Andrej Haščák (* 1950), Photographer
Martina Hingis (* 1980), Sporting
Meister Alexander von Kaschau
Stephanus Lapicidus, architect of the Elisabeth cathedral between 1464 and 1490
Herta Ondušová-Victorin, painter
Erasmus Schrött, painter
Wolfgang Schustel, reforming
Joachim Rheticus, colleague of Copernic

Administrative divisions

The city is divided into 4 districts for the national administrative needs and 22 districts for the local government.

The districts, with the districts which compose them, are:

Košice I: Džungľa, Kavečany, Sever, Sídlisko Ťahanovce, Staré mesto, Ťahanovce
Košice II: Lorinčík, Luník I-XII, Myslava, Pereš, Poľov, Sídlisko KVP, Šaca, Západ
Košice III: Dargovských Hrdinov, Košická Nová Ves
Košice IV: Barca, Juh, Krásna, Nad jazerom, Šebastovce, Vyšné Opátske

See too

Sources

part of the article is translated English article

External bonds

Sites of the city

Official site of the City
Site relating to Košice, plus general practitioner, with current events

Photographs

Košice - photograph blog interesting Photographs of Košice

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