Free City of Cracow
former city-state
The Free City of Cracow[a] was a city state created by the Congress of Vienna in 1815, which included the Polish city of Cracow and its surrounding land.
Free, Independent, and Strictly Neutral City of Cracow with its Territory Wolne, Niepodległe i Ściśle Neutralne Miasto Kraków i jego Okręg (Polish) | |||||||||||
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 Location of the Free, Independent, and Strictly Neutral City of Cracow with its Territory within Europe | |||||||||||
| Status | Protectorate of Austria, Prussia, and Russia | ||||||||||
| Capital | Cracow (Kraków) | ||||||||||
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| Religion | Roman Catholic, Judaism | ||||||||||
| Government | Constitutional republic | ||||||||||
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• 1815–1831 | Stanisław Wodzicki | ||||||||||
| Legislature | Assembly of Representatives (Kraków) | ||||||||||
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| 3 May 1815 | |||||||||||
| 29 November 1830 | |||||||||||
| 16 November 1846 | |||||||||||
| Area | |||||||||||
• Total | 1,188.8 km2 (459.0 sq mi) | ||||||||||
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| Today part of | Poland | ||||||||||
It was controlled by each its three neighbors (Russia, Prussia, and Austria). In 1846, in the aftermath of the failed Kraków uprising, the Free City of Cracow was taken over by the Austrian Empire.[1] It was a leftover of the Duchy of Warsaw, which was partitioned among the three states after the Congress in 1815.
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change- Degan, Vladimir Đuro (1997), Developments in International Law: Sources of Internat'l, Developments in International Law Series, vol. 27 (illustrated ed.), Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, p. 378, ISBN 9789041104212
- Feuchtwanger, E. J. (1970), Prussia: Myth and Reality, Chicago: Henry Regnery Company, p. 262, ISBN 0-85496-108-9
- Hertslet, Edward (1875), "No.15", The map of Europe by treaty; showing the various political and territorial changes which have taken place since the general peace of 1814, London: Butterworths. (No. 12), p. 127
Further information
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Media related to Free City of Kraków at Wikimedia Commons- EB staff, "Republic of Kraków", Encyclopædia Britannica online, retrieved 12 December 2012
