Free City of Cracow

Free, Independent, and Strictly Neutral City of Cracow with its Territory Wolne, Niepodległe i Ściśle Neutralne Miasto Kraków i jego Okręg  (Polish)
1815–1846
Flag Coat of arms
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)
Common languages	Polish (official) Yiddish German
Religion	Roman Catholic, Judaism
Government	Constitutional republic
President of the Senate
• 1815–1831	Stanisław Wodzicki
Legislature	Assembly of Representatives (Kraków)
History
• Established	3 May 1815
• November Uprising	29 November 1830
• Kraków Uprising	16 November 1846
Area
• Total	1,188.8 km2 (459.0 sq mi)
Currency	Polish zloty (to 1835) Kraków złoty (from 1835)
Preceded by Succeeded by Duchy of Warsaw Grand Duchy of Kraków Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria
Today part of	Poland

The Free City of Cracow was a city state created by the Congress of Vienna in 1815, which included the Polish city of Cracow and its surrounding land.

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. It was a leftover of the Duchy of Warsaw, which was partitioned among the three states after the Congress in 1815.

Sources

• 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

• Media related to Free City of Kraków at Wikimedia Commons
• EB staff, "Republic of Kraków", Encyclopædia Britannica online, retrieved 12 December 2012