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Encyclopedia > Kraków Uprising

The Kraków Uprising of February 1846 was an attempt to incite an all-Polish fight for home-rule but was in fact limited only to the Free City of Kraków. The uprising, led by Edward Dembowski, was quickly suppressed by the Austrian army, and followed by Kraków's incorporation into the Austrian Empire as Grand Duchy of Kraków. Motto: none Voivodship Lesser Poland Municipal government Rada miasta Kraków Mayor Jacek Majchrowski Area 326,8 km² Population  - city  - urban  - density 757,500 (2004 est. ... February is the second month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1846 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... The Republic of Poland, a democratic country with a population of 38,626,349 and area of 312,685 km², is located in Central Europe, between Germany to the west, the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south, Ukraine and Belarus to the east, and the Baltic Sea, Lithuania and... The Free City of Kraków ( Polish: Wolne Miasto Kraków), also known as Republic of Kraków ( Rzeczpospolita Krakowska), was a city-state created by the Congress of Vienna in 1815 and controlled by its three neighbors, Russia, Prussia and Austria until 1846. ... The Republic of Austria (German: Republik Österreich) is a landlocked country in Central Europe. ...


 

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