Claim: University of Veterinary Medicine and Pharmacy in Košice began its teaching activities with its first lecture on 5 October 1949 and it became the first school of veterinary medicine in Slovakia and the second one in Czechoslovakia (a sovereign state in Central Europe).
Evidence: The college began its teaching activities with its first lecture on 5 October 1949. It became the first school of veterinary medicine in Slovakia and the second one in Czechoslovakia since the establishment of the Veterinary College in Brno on 12 December 1918. Czechoslovakia, or Czecho-Slovakia (/ˌtʃɛkoʊsloʊˈvækiə, -kə-, -slə-, -ˈvɑː-/; Czech and Slovak: Československo, Česko-Slovensko), was a sovereign state in Central Europe that existed from October 1918, when it declared its independence from the Austro-Hungarian Empire, until its peaceful dissolution into the Czech Republic and Slovakia on 1 January 1993.