The East Slovak Gallery in Košice

Košice

Košice is a city in eastern Slovakia. It is situated on the river Hornád at the eastern reaches of the Slovak Ore Mountains, near the border with Hungary...

 was founded in 1951 as the first regional gallery

Art gallery

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 in Slovakia

Slovakia

The Slovak Republic is a landlocked state in Central Europe. It has a population of over five million and an area of about . Slovakia is bordered by the Czech Republic and Austria to the west, Poland to the north, Ukraine to the east and Hungary to the south...

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The Baroque

Baroque

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-Classical

Classical architecture

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 palace

Palace

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-type building was erected in 1779 for the needs of the Abov

Abov

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 comitatus

Comitatus (Kingdom of Hungary)

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 council. The building continued to serve as a comitatus hall until 1928. For several weeks starting in April 1945, it was used by the government

Government

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 of Czechoslovakia

Czechoslovakia

Czechoslovakia or Czecho-Slovakia was a sovereign state in Central Europe which existed from October 1918, when it declared its independence from the Austro-Hungarian Empire, until 1992...

, temporarily resident in Košice at that time. On April 5, 1945 the first post-war political programme was announced in the ceremonial session chamber, known as the Košice Government Programme. In the years 1973–1975 the building was reconstructed and converted into a museum.