Coat of arms of Košice
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Košice, today in Slovakia (then part of the Kingdom of Hungary) was the first town in Europe to be granted its own coat of arms. It was granted by King Louis I the Great at the Castle of Diósgyőr in Diósgyőr, present Miskolc-Diósgyőr, Hungary in 1369.
The original coat of arms featured only the red and silver stripes and three fleur-de-lis in a blue background ([1], first picture). The coat of arms used today features symbols of historical counties (Abov, Gemer, Spiš, Turňa, Uh, Zemplín) and hasn't changed since 1502.
Košice is unique in that it was the first city in Europe to gain a royal warrant for a coat of arms. The city is further unique in that by the year 1502, in the period of active heraldry, it had obtained altogether four armorial warrants from four monarchs.
The statue of the first municipal coat of arms in Europe (its author is famous Slovak sculptor Arpád Račko) was inaugurated in December 2002 at Hlavná ulica (Main Street).
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