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2 unusual facts about Košice-Barca


Košice International Airport

Construction of today's airport began in 1950 near the suburb of Barca.

Košice-Barca

One of the principal features within Barca's catastral territory is Košice International Airport, which is the second largest in Slovakia.


1923 Uruguayan Primera División of AUF

For Lito, Lito were dubbed "round" to the AUF and Lito "square" to the FUF, differing by the shield they carried in a Barca shirt.

Abraham González Casanova

He made his debut for the first team during the Copa del Rey tie against Benidorm CF (1–0 win) on 10 October 2008; in the last round of La Liga (30 May 2009), as Barça were already champions, he came on as a substitute for Xavi during the 1–1 draw at Deportivo de La Coruña.

Alexandra Proklova

In her first JGP event in Košice, Slovakia, she won the silver medal with a total score 3.97 points less than gold medalist Karen Chen.

Ángel Pedraza

In the 1986 European Cup Final he was one of four Barça players – the others were José Ramón Alexanko, Pichi Alonso and Marcos – to have their penalty shootout attempts saved by FC Steaua Bucureşti goalkeeper Helmuth Duckadam, as the Catalans lost the decisive match in Seville (0–0 after 120 minutes).

Anton Count Sztáray de Nagy-Mihaly

Anton, Count Sztáray de Nagy-Mihály, (born 1740, Košice, Slovakia, and died on

Barca, Rimavská Sobota District

From the 16th century it belonged to the Chapter of Eger, later on to the Jesuits of Košice.

Bardejov

At that time only Bratislava, Košice and Levoča had larger number of craftsmen and guilds than Bardejov.

Benjamin Godard

Benjamin Godard: Violin Concerto No. 2 in G minor (Concerto Romantique) and Scènes poétiques performed by Chloë Hanslip (violin) with the Kosice Slovak State Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Kirk Trevor (Naxos 8.570554)

Ç

A well-known word with this character is Barça, a common Catalan diminutive for FC Barcelona, also used across the world, including by the Spanish-language media.

Carpathian Mountains

The most important cities in or near the Carpathians are: Bratislava and Košice in Slovakia; Kraków in Poland; Cluj-Napoca, Sibiu and Braşov in Romania; and Miskolc in Hungary.

Celovce

Čeľovce - a village in Trebisov District in eastern Kosice Region

Endre Hadik-Barkóczy

He studied in Kassa (today: Kosice, Slovakia) and his economic study at University of Hohenheim.

Franciscus Illenfeld

Franciscus Illenfeld is the author of the St. Urban Bell (cast it in 1557) which was installed in the St. Urban Tower in Košice, today Slovakia.

François Fiedler

François Fiedler (Košice, 1921 - Saint-Germain-Laval, Seine-et-Marne, 2001) was a Hungarian-born naturalized French painter.

František Knapík

He worked then in forestry companies from 1980 to 1996, when he became a mayor of Košice's borough of Košická Nová Ves, staying at that position until 2003, when he was appointed as a deputy of the mayor of Košice and since 2006, confirmed by municipal election, he is the incumbent mayor of Košice at least until 2010.

George Martinuzzi

It included, besides Transylvania proper, many Hungarian counties on both sides of the Theiss, and the important city of Kassa (Košice).

Gergena Branzova

Also played for Reims, France, Asteras Exarhion, Greece, Fenerbahçe İstanbul, Migrosspor, Mersin Metropolitan Municipality B.K., Kosice, Slovakia and Beşiktaş Cola Turka in Turkey where she ended her active career in 2010.

German occupation of Czechoslovakia

Guerrilla activity intensified with rising number of parachuted units in 1944, leading to establishment of partisan groups, such as 1st Czechoslovak Partisan Brigade of Jan Žižka, Jan Kozina Brigade or Mistr Jan Hus Brigade, and especially after the formation of a provisional Czechoslovak government in Košice on 4 April 1945.

Greek–Punic Wars

Carthage had also sponsored the journey of Mago Barca (not to be confused with Mago Barca, Hannibal Barca's brother) across the Sahara Desert to Cyrenaica, and Hanno the Navigator's journey down the African coast.

Hasdrubal Gisco

Hasdrubal Gisco was sent to Iberia with an army following the defeat of Hasdrubal Barca at the Battle of Dertosa in the spring of 215 BC.

Hungarian art

Wealthy mining towns have built them on their main square like as at such as Kassa (Košice, Slovakia), Bártfa (Bardejov, Slovakia), Brassó and Nagyszeben built their main squares in this style,which can also be seen in several rebuilt monasteries, for example (Garamszentbenedek in Slovakia).

Igor Kluvánek

In the early 60's he joined the Department of Mathematical Analysis of the University of Pavol Jozef Šafárik in Košice.

Jenő Kalmár

Kocsis scored twice for Barça while the Granada CF goal was scored by Arsenio Iglesias.

José Ramón Alexanko

Six years earlier he had his penalty shootout attempt saved by FC Steaua Bucureşti's Helmuth Duckadam, as Barça lost the 1986 edition in Seville.

Jozef Majoroš

Jozef Majoroš (pronounced Mayorosh) (born 19 March 1970 in Geča near Košice) is a former Slovak footballer.

Jur Hronec

This activity has been successful - in June 1937 the National Assembly adopted the Law on the establishment of technical university in Kosice.

Kascha

Košice, city in Eastern Slovakia also known as Kascha

Lučenec District

The district lies on the E571 route (Route 50 in Slovak numbering) from Bratislava to Košice, and on one of the train lines connecting the two cities.

Luis García Sanz

It was further underlined by the song frequently sung in his honor, to the tune of "You Are My Sunshine": "Luis García, he drinks Sangria/he came from Barça to bring us joy!/He's five-foot seven, he's football heaven/So please don't take our Luis away!"

Lunik 9

Luník IX, a borough in the city of Košice, Slovakia, with a mostly Roma population.

Lunik IX

Luník IX, a borough in the city of Košice, Slovakia, in the Košice II district

Mariański Choir

Prizes were won at festivals in Międzyzdroje, Caecilianum (2000) and in Warsaw (2004), Loretto and Gorizia in Italy, Košice, Ilava, Mogilev, and in Frankfurt am Main and Berlin.

Pedro María Artola

He won the Ricardo Zamora Trophy as the best goalkeeper in 1977–78, adding the season's Copa del Rey with the Catalans, one of seven team honours with the team; he was also in goal in one of the two UEFA Cup Winners' Cup finals won by Barça, the 1982 2–1 win against Standard Liège, played on home soil.

Pentapolis

The most important was Cyrene and its port Apollonia, Ptolemais (the next capital after Cyrene's destruction by an earthquake), Barca (the later Arab provincial capital Barka), Balagrae (by Bayda) and Berenice (modern Benghazi); also known as the Pentapolis inferior ('lower P.').

Pentapolitana

Pentapolitana (or rarely Pentapolis) was a league of townsin the Middle Ages of the five most important Hungarian royal free cities (Latin: libera regiae civitas, Hungarian: szabad királyi város, German: Königliche Freistadt; Slovak: slobodné kráľovské mesto) of the Kingdom of Hungary; Kassa (today Košice), Bártfa (Bardejov), Lőcse (Levoča), Eperjes (Prešov), and Kisszeben (Sabinov) .

Ramón Torralba

Popularly known as 'la Vella' (the Old One), because of his long career with Barça, Ramon Torralba (Ardisa, Zaragoza, 1887 – Barcelona, ?) is a legendary figure in the history of FC Barcelona.

Roman conquest of Hispania

In the winter of 209 and 208 BC Publius Scipio advanced south and collided with the army of Hasdrubal Barca (who at the time was advancing north) near Santo Tomé in the hamlet of Baecula where the Battle of Baecula took place.

Salvador Sadurní

In the 1973–74 season, he won the second of his third Ricardo Zamora Trophy awards, as Barça won the national championship and finished with the best defensive record in the competition (just 24 goals conceded in 34 games); he retired at the age of 35, after a testimonial match against Stade de Reims.

Sarcastic Front

The record included twelve songs such as "Social product", "Stop", "Livestock suicide", "I want more", "What if", "Because it is modern" and "Businessman", and one live bonus song "Never" from a concert in Košice.

Sergi López Segú

He made his first-team debut on 31 January 1988, in a match against UD Las Palmas in the Camp Nou; including Copa del Rey and European matches, he eventually totalled 54 appearances scoring once, and helped Barça win one La Liga championship, two Spanish Cups and the 1988–89 edition of the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup.

Spišské

Spišské Tomášovce, village and municipality in the Spišská Nová Ves District in the Košice Region of central-eastern Slovakia

Steel Aréna

Its capacity is 8,343 seats and was named in honour of the general sponsor of the club – the U. S. Steel Košice (a member of the United States Steel Corporation) and also in honour of Ladislav Troják, a Košice-born hockey player who was the first Slovak to win the World Championship with the Czechoslovakian national team.

Tomášovce

Spišské Tomášovce, a village and municipality in the Spišská Nová Ves District, Košice Region, Slovakia

Všešportový areál

All sports complex (Všešportový areál in Slovak) is a multi-purpose stadium in Košice, Slovakia that was opened by match against ZVL Žilina on 29 February 1976.

Zemplínska

Zemplínska Nová Ves, village and municipality in the Trebišov District in the Košice Region of south-eastern Slovakia

Zemplínska Široká, village and municipality in Michalovce District in the Kosice Region of eastern Slovakia


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