Pentapolitana

Pentapolitana (or rarely Pentapolis) was a league of towns of the five most important Hungarian royal free towns (Latin: libera regiae civitas, Hungarian: szabad királyi város, German: Königliche Freistadt; Slovak: slobodné kráľovské mesto) of present-day eastern Slovakia (Košice, Bardejov, Levoča, Prešov and Sabinov) in the Middle Ages.

The first meeting of the representatives of the towns in question took place in 1412. The actual alliance arose between 1440 and 1445.

The main role of the Pentapolitana was to control and to develop trade as there were important old business cross-roads in the region of the noth-eastern part of the Kingdom of Hungary, present-day eastern Slovakia. The leading town of the Pentapolitana was Košice. Excellent customer service and fine foreign contacts of the alliance employed also sovereign, royal offices and magnates.

In 1549, i.e. during the reformation period, the Pentapolitana created its own Lutherian confession, the Confessio Pentapolitana.