Košice ˈkɒʃɪtsə (Latin: Cassovia or Caschovia, Kaschau, Kassa, Koszyce, Hebrew: קושיצה, קאשוי (kashow), Rusyn: Кошице, Romany: Kasha) is Slovakia's second largest city and the center of eastern Slovakia.
It lies in the valley of the river Hornád in the Košice Basin, encircled by the spurs of the Čierna Hora mountains to the north and the Volovské vrchy hills to the west.
Košice is the seat of a Region (kraj) or the Košice Self-governing Region (KSK), of universities, of the Slovak Constitutional Court, of a Roman Catholic archbishopric (since 1995), Evangelical Lutheran bishopric and a Greek Catholic bishopric. The town has a relatively large historic center. (...)
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