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.The original coat of arms featured only the red and silver stripes and three fleur-de-lis on a blue background.[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).
