Košice

Košice

City (pop., 2003 est.: 235,281), eastern Slovakia. Settled in the 9th century and chartered in 1241, it served as a trading settlement during the late Middle Ages. It developed rapidly after becoming part of Czechoslovakia in 1920. Occupied in 1938 by Hungary, it was liberated in 1945 and became the first seat of the postwar Czechoslovakian government. A part of independent Slovakia since 1993, it is the political, economic, and cultural centre of southeastern Slovakia.

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Košice 

a city in Czechoslovakia, in the Slovak Socialist Republic; administrative center of the region of East Slovakia. Located in the Hornád (Hernád) River valley, in the foothills of the Slovak Ore Mountains. Population, 152,000 (1971); the second most populous city in Czechoslovakia. It is a transportation junction and a center of ferrous metallurgy. Industries include heavy machinery, magnesite, food, garments, and wood products. The city has a university.

Košice has an outstanding monument of Slovak Gothic architecture, the Cathedral of St. Elizabeth (1382-1499), with rich stone carvings, as well as the Gothic chapel of St. Michael (second half of the 14th century), a Dominican church and monastery (14th to 18th centuries), a baroque city hall (1756), and palaces and public buildings in the classical style. Large-scale construction apartment buildings began in the late 1940’s. The city also houses the Museum of East Slovakia.