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Wawel Castle: Then and Now

Royal castle of Kraków, rebuilt in Renaissance style in the early 16th century; Polish kings were crowned and buried on Wawel Hill.

Historical view
Wawel Castle, historical view
Wawel seen from the Vistula (c. 1930). Unknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Today
Wawel Castle, today
Monika Towiańska, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Key facts

Country todayPoland
StatusStanding
Date1500
Nearest city on the mapWarsaw (about 253 km)
Location50.054° N, 19.936° E
Map showing Wawel Castle in 1500Wawel Castle
Border map for 1500. See Europe in 1500.

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Who ruled this place

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

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