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According
to the legend, Krakow has been found by the legendary
prince Krak for whom has been built an impressive mound.
In the X century there was a trade center, in the 1000
year there was found a bishopric and since 1038 Krakow
fulfilled a role of the kingdom's capital. During the
reign of Kazimierz the Great, in the city there was
found in 1364 the Krakow Academy, later changed into
Jagiellonski University. The Jewish settlement in the
city particularly expanded with the rise of the separate
district of Kazimierz which became a home for all Jewish
people who ran away because of persecutions in Europe.
In 1596 the king Zygmunt III Waza (Sigismund III Vase)
moved the capital to Warsaw. In the time of partitions,
Krakow was attached to Austria and became the main city
of Poland in which the Polish culture and thought of
Romanticism and Enlightenment developed. In 2000 Krakow
was one of the nine European cultural cities.
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