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Kraków: History, Former Names & Timeline

Old royal capital of Poland; Wawel Castle saw the coronations and burials of its kings.

Map showing Kraków in 1500Kraków
Border map for 1500. See Europe in 1500.

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Former names of Kraków

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AD 965Kraków

Timeline of Kraków

YearEvent
1364Casimir III founds the Kraków Academy
1596Sigismund III moves the court to Warsaw
1815The Congress of Vienna creates the Free City of Kraków

Who ruled Kraków

Derived from the border maps; each row runs until the next recorded border change.

PeriodState
500 BC–199Bell-shaped burials culture
200–699Unclaimed / no data
700–799Proto-Slavs
800–899Slavonic tribes
900–999Great Moravia
1000–1399Poland
1400–1649Poland-Lithuania
1650–1782Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
1783–1814Austrian Empire
1815–1879Republic of Kraków
1880–1913Austria Hungary
1914–1919Austro-Hungarian Empire
1920–todayPoland

Landmarks in and around Kraków

Nearby cities