Košice

The city of Košice, the second largest city of Slovakia, is located in the eastern part of the republic, near the border with Hungary (20 km), Ukraine (80 km) and Poland (90 km). Convenient location in the past makes the Košice an important point on trade routes. Nowadays it is a key economic agglomeration but also a crossroads of transport routes, to which the railway junction and international airport contribute. Kosice is the first European city, which received its own armorial list. The monarch Louis the Great gave it to the town of Košice in 1369.