Košice (today in Slovakia; previously part of the Kingdom of Hungary, Kassa in Hungarian, Cassovia in Latin) was the first town in Europe to be granted its own coat of arms.[1][2] It was granted by King Louis I the Great at the Castle of Diósgyőr near present-day Miskolc in 1369. By the year 1502 it had obtained altogether four heraldic warrants from four monarchs. The coat of arms used today is virtually unchanged since 1502.
| Coat of arms of Košice | |
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| Armiger | City of Košice |
| Adopted | 1369 |
The original coat of arms featured only the red and silver stripes and three fleur-de-lis on a blue background.[3]
The four red stripes in the coat of arms of Košice come from the medieval coat of arms of the Hungarian Árpád dynasty.[4] The three golden fleurs-de-lis on an azure field refer to the Capetian House of Anjou dynasty,[4] and the silver eagle to the Jagiellon dynasty.[4]
A statue of the municipal coat of arms (the work of Slovak sculptor Arpád Račko) was inaugurated in December 2002 at Hlavná ulica (Main Street).
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edit- ^ "The Arms of Kosice City". Oficiálne stránky mesta Košice. Retrieved 2021-02-20.
- ^ "Erbová listina mesta Košice z roku 1369 je európskym unikátom". TERAZ.sk (in Slovak). 2014-08-01. Retrieved 2021-02-20.
- ^ "r21. Coat of Arms of Košice from 1423". Samples of the book painting created in Slovakia IIIrd gallery. manuscript.szm.sk. Retrieved 21 June 2012.
- ^ a b c 'Klíc k našim mestum' by Karel Liška and Ludvík Mucha, ed. Práce in Prague, 1979.