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    The Kraków City Council is the governing body of Kraków. The council has forty-three elected members elected every five years in an election by city voters...
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    Kraków (Polish: [ˈkrakuf] ), also seen spelled Cracow or absent Polish diacritics as Krakow, is the second-largest and one of the oldest cities in Poland...
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    [ˈrɨnɛk ˈɡwuvnɨ]) of the Old Town of Kraków, Lesser Poland, is the principal urban space located at the center of the city. It dates back to the 13th century...
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    Map of districts of the City of Kraków IV VI VII V I II IX III XVII X VIII XI XII XIII XIV XVIII XV XVI Vistula (Wisła) Interactive map. For more information...
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    symbols of the city are also used. Flag of Kraków, also during its time as a city-state Banner of Kraków Coat of Arms of Kraków Seal of Kraków The current...
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    by Kraków City council on 23 January 2008, the stadium is named after Wisła's legendary player Henryk Tomasz Reyman. Municipal Stadium in Kraków meets...
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    in Kraków, Poznań, Wrocław, Rzeszów, Toruń, Zielona Góra and Legnica. Bold – elected candidates Warsaw Mayor Warsaw City Council Kraków Mayor Kraków City...
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    at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków. Thanks to his brother Feliks, he was in touch with socialists in Kraków. In 1889, he met Ludwik Kulczycki,...
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    Weelsby Woods, Grimsby. In 2013, the Kraków city council gave permission for the erection of a statue of Wojtek in the city's Jordan Park. It was unveiled on...
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    Municipal District of Kraków was announced. This order declared that no more Jews were allowed into the city of Kraków, Jews residing in Kraków required a special...
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  • held in Kraków on 25 May 2014. In 2012 the authorities of Kraków decided to launch a bid for the 2022 Winter Olympics. Although Kraków City Council had initially...
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    The Kraków Jewish Council (In German: Judenrat) was a 24-person Jewish managerial board formally established in the city of Kraków, Poland by German authorities...
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    Wielopolski Palace (category City councils in Poland)
    The Wielopolski Palace in Kraków, Poland, is the location of the Kraków City Council and the office of the President of Kraków. The palace and the courtyard...
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  • councillor (both entered office in 2024) Aleksandra Owca (born 1992) Member of the Kraków City Council 2024–present Bisexual First bisexual councillor...
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  • president of the city of Kraków (known as the Mayor) fulfills his duties with the help of the City Council, city managers and the city inspectors. Their...
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    defenders of Kraków felt abandoned, without hope of any support. Nevertheless, they continued to fight. On October 6, Charles Gustav returned to Kraków, and while...
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    Andrzej Duda (category People from Kraków)
    Mayor of Kraków as a PiS candidate, but was more successful in the 2011 parliamentary election, where he received 79,981 votes for the Kraków area, and...
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    city of Kraków and neighbouring powiats. In 2020 Kraków's gross metropolitan product was €25.5 billion. This puts Kraków in 95th place among cities in...
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    Astronomer Copernicus, or Conversations with God (category Paintings in Kraków)
    own exhibition in Kraków. He was able to exhibit the picture in February 1873, in the Wielopolski Palace, then the Kraków City Council building. Profits...
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  • The City of Kraków Award is an award bestowed annually by the President of Kraków, Poland, for contributions relating to the city, and the popularization...
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    pronunciation: [ˈpwaʂuf]) or Kraków-Płaszów was a Nazi concentration camp operated by the SS in Płaszów, a southern suburb of Kraków, in the General Governorate...
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    Mayor of Kraków and, simultaneously, for a seat in city council. She did not succeed in either, but in 2019 was elected to Sejm from the Kraków constituency...
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  • also declared persona non grata in the city after a proposal from Łukasz Wantuch, a member of the Kraków City Council. Waters posted an open letter in social...
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    independence. The uprising was centered on the city of Kraków, the capital of a small state of Free City of Krakow. It was directed at the powers that partitioned...
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    Jan Matejko (category People from the Free City of Kraków)
    witnessed the Kraków revolution of 1846 and the 1848 siege of Kraków by the Austrians, two events which put an end to the Free City of Kraków. Two of his...
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    The Kraków tram system is a tram system in Kraków, Poland. The tramway has been in operation since 1882, and is currently operated by Miejskie Przedsiębiorstwo...
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    1 city larger than 1,000,000: Warsaw* 1 city from 750,000 to 1,000,000: Kraków* 3 cities from 500,000 to 750,000: Wrocław*, Łódź*, Poznań* 6 cities from...
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    Society officially transferred ownership over the museum to the Kraków City Council, which decided to grant Jan Matejko House under the administration...
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    example of the Polish Gothic architecture in the city. The building was situated next to the Kraków Cloth Hall in the south-western part of the Main Square...
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  • Napoleonic Wars, Kraków became a free city under the protection of the Austrian Empire; this, however, was not to last long. In 1846, after the Kraków Uprising...
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