Post by Bonobo on Feb 10, 2013 19:58:16 GMT 1
Krakow was a Free City once. Fascinating story, I just read a book about it.
The Free, Independent, and Strictly Neutral City of Kraków[1] (Cracow) with its Territory (Polish: Wolne, Niepodleg³e i ¦ci¶le Neutralne Miasto Kraków z Okrêgiem), more commonly known as either the Free City of Kraków or Republic of Kraków (Polish: Rzeczpospolita Krakowska, German: Republik Krakau), was a city-state created by the Congress of Vienna in 1815, and controlled by its three neighbours (Russia, Prussia, and Austria) until 1846, when in the aftermath of the unsuccessful Kraków Uprising it was annexed by the Austrian Empire.[2] It was a remnant of the Duchy of Warsaw partitioned between the three states in 1815.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_City_of_Krak%C3%B3w
Map
Constitution
upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2c/J%C3%B3zef_Brodowski_002.JPG/800px-J%C3%B3zef_Brodowski_002.JPG
Currency
wcn.pl/foto/sklep/high/58317.jpg
Krakow Uprising 1846:
img6.iap.pl/_r/1184-1797/s/295/206197/Wiadomosci/15313/81322_dembowski.jpg
upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c4/Edward_Dembowski_during_Krak%C3%B3w_Uprising_1846.PNG
Memory:
The Free, Independent, and Strictly Neutral City of Kraków[1] (Cracow) with its Territory (Polish: Wolne, Niepodleg³e i ¦ci¶le Neutralne Miasto Kraków z Okrêgiem), more commonly known as either the Free City of Kraków or Republic of Kraków (Polish: Rzeczpospolita Krakowska, German: Republik Krakau), was a city-state created by the Congress of Vienna in 1815, and controlled by its three neighbours (Russia, Prussia, and Austria) until 1846, when in the aftermath of the unsuccessful Kraków Uprising it was annexed by the Austrian Empire.[2] It was a remnant of the Duchy of Warsaw partitioned between the three states in 1815.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_City_of_Krak%C3%B3w
Map
Constitution
upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2c/J%C3%B3zef_Brodowski_002.JPG/800px-J%C3%B3zef_Brodowski_002.JPG
Currency
wcn.pl/foto/sklep/high/58317.jpg
Krakow Uprising 1846:
img6.iap.pl/_r/1184-1797/s/295/206197/Wiadomosci/15313/81322_dembowski.jpg
upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c4/Edward_Dembowski_during_Krak%C3%B3w_Uprising_1846.PNG
Memory: