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10 unusual facts about Kosice


Anton Count Sztáray de Nagy-Mihaly

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

Dan Senor

His father, Jim, worked for Israel Bonds; his mother, Helen, was from Kosice, now in Slovakia, where she and her mother hid from the Nazis during the Holocaust.

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.

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.

Igor Kluvánek

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

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

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.

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.


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.

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)

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.

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.

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).

Jozef Majoroš

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

Kysak

Kysak railway station is an important railway junction, where the Košice–Plaveč–Čirč–Muszyna railway diverges towards Poland from the Košice–Žilina railway, which is part of Slovakia's main east-west rail corridor.

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.

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

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) .

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.

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

Zemplínska Teplica, village and municipality in the Trebišov District in the Košice Region of eastern Slovakia