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    centre of agitation for an independent Poland. In 1846, in the aftermath of the unsuccessful Kraków Uprising, the Free City of Cracow was annexed by the Austrian...
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  • The Free City of Krakow is a 1985 post-apocalyptic military tabletop role-playing game adventure for Twilight: 2000 published by Game Designers' Workshop...
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    independence. The uprising was centered on the city of Kraków, the capital of a small state of Free City of Krakow. It was directed at the powers that partitioned...
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    it was transformed into Kraków Voivodeship, the city of Kraków itself was turned into the Free City of Kraków. The Duchy of Warsaw, 1807-1815: A Napoleonic...
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    The Grand Duchy of Kraków (German: Großherzogtum Krakau; Polish: Wielkie Księstwo Krakowskie) was created after the incorporation of the Free City of...
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    symbols of the city are also used. Flag of Kraków, also during its time as a city-state Banner of Kraków Coat of Arms of Kraków Seal of Kraków The current...
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    Kraków (Polish: [ˈkrakuf] ), also spelled as Cracow or Krakow, is the second-largest and one of the oldest cities in Poland. Situated on the Vistula River...
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    The Kraków Barbican (Polish: Barbakan Krakowski) is a barbican – a fortified outpost once connected to the city walls. It is a historic gateway leading...
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    Jan Matejko (category People from the Free City of Kraków)
    witnessed the Kraków revolution of 1846 and the 1848 siege of Kraków by the Austrians, two events which put an end to the Free City of Kraków. Two of his older...
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    abolition of the Duchy at the Congress of Vienna (1815) allowed Austria to regain control. The Congress created the Free City of Kraków protectorate of Austria...
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  • Hanseatic City of Hamburg (1806–11 and again 1814–71), the Free and Hanseatic City of Lübeck (1806–11 and again 1813–71), and the Free City of Kraków (1815–1846)...
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    defeat in 1813, the Congress of Vienna, created Congress Poland out of the Duchy of Warsaw and also established the Free City of Kraków. Congress Poland...
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    Helena Modjeska (category People from the Free City of Kraków)
    parentage is unclear. Her mother was Józefa (Misel) Benda, the widow of a prosperous Kraków merchant, Szymon Benda. In her autobiography, Modjeska claimed...
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    Ludwig Gumplowicz (category People from the Free City of Kraków)
    coming from Kraków, a city of the former Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, which was first partitioned and later as the Free City of Kraków annexed by Austria-Hungary...
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    Jaworzno (category City counties of Poland)
    to the Free City of Kraków, which was annexed by Austria and merged with Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria. In 1918 Jaworzno returned to Poland. The name...
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    West Galicia (category Historical geography of Poland)
    Emperor Alexander I of Russia, while Kraków nominally retained its independence as the Free City of Kraków. From 1797, the seat of the local government (Gubernium)...
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  • Kraków UNESCO City of Literature is a City of Literature located in Kraków, Poland, as a member of the UNESCO Creative Cities Network. Kraków joined the...
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    Kraków is one of the largest and oldest cities in Poland, with the urban population of 804,237 (June, 2023). Situated on the Vistula river (Polish: Wisła)...
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    Chełmek (category Cities and towns in Lesser Poland Voivodeship)
    Chrzanów District of the Free City of Kraków. In November 1846, the Free City was annexed by Austria, and in 1856, rail line from Kraków to Vienna, via Chełmek...
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    The Kraków złoty (Polish: złotówka krakowska) - was a currency issued in the independent Free City of Cracow in 1835. It was subdivided into 30 groszy...
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    The Main Square (Polish: Rynek Główny [ˈrɨnɛɡ ˈɡwuvnɨ]) of the Old Town of Kraków, Lesser Poland, is the principal urban space located at the center of...
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    The Free City of Danzig (German: Freie Stadt Danzig; Polish: Wolne Miasto Gdańsk) was a city-state under the protection and oversight of the League of...
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  • contributor to the intellectual heritage of Europe. The campus of the Jagiellonian University is centrally located within the city of Kraków. The university...
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    Piotr Michałowski (category People from the Free City of Kraków)
    outside Kraków, the son of landowner Józef Michałowski, senator in the Free City of Kraków. His artistic talent developed at an early age of 13 under the watchful...
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    passed the grand duchy to a younger son, but the main branch of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine continued to use the title. The Free City of Kraków was incorporated...
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  • loosely based on the classic module Free City of Krakow from the first edition of Twilight: 2000. Whereas Twilight: 2000 was set in the immediate post-World...
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    Poland (redirect from Republic of Poland)
    covering a combined area of 312,696 km2 (120,733 sq mi). The capital and largest city is Warsaw; other major cities include Kraków, Wrocław, Łódź, Poznań...
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  • Ludwika Róża Ossolińska (category People from the Free City of Kraków)
    Almost all of her manuscripts were burnt down during the fire in Kraków in 1850. In the same year, Ossolińska's novels were published in Kraków, including...
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    situated in southern and south-eastern Poland. Its capital and largest city is Kraków. Throughout centuries, Lesser Poland developed a separate culture featuring...
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    Jan Tyssowski (category People from the Free City of Kraków)
    April 5, 1857), born in Tarnów, Poland, was the self-proclaimed Dictator of the Republic of Kraków during the failed 1846 uprising. He was a Polish intellectual...
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