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Line 46: The '''Free, Independent, and Strictly Neutral City of Kraków with its Territory''',{{efn\|[[Polish language\|Polish]]: ''Wolne, Niepodległe i Ściśle Neutralne Miasto Kraków z Okręgiem''}}{{Efn\|The [[Polish language\|Polish]] variant of name Kraków is occasionally retroactively applied in English to the historical Free City.\|name=\|group=}} more commonly known as the '''Free City of Cracow''',{{efn\|[[Polish language\|Polish]]: ''Wolne Miasto Kraków''; [[German language\|German]]: ''Freie Stadt Krakau''}} and the '''Republic of Kraków''',{{efn\|[[Polish language\|Polish]]: ''Rzeczpospolita Krakowska''; {{lang-de\|Republik Krakau}}}} was a [[city-state\|city republic]] created by the [[Congress of Vienna]] in 1815, which included the Polish city of [[Kraków]] and its surrounding areas. It was [[Condominium (international law)\|jointly controlled]] by its three neighbours ([[Russian Empire\|Russia]], [[Kingdom of Prussia\|Prussia]], and [[Austrian Empire\|Austria]]), and was a centre of agitation for an independent Poland. In 1846, in the aftermath of the unsuccessful [[Kraków Uprising]], the Free City of ~~Kraków~~Cracow was annexed by the Austrian Empire.{{sfn\|Degan\|1997\|p=378}} It was a remnant of the [[Duchy of Warsaw]], which was [[Partitions of Poland\|partitioned]] between the three states after the Congress in 1815. The Free City of ~~Kraków~~Cracow was an overwhelmingly Polish-speaking city-state; of its population 85% were Catholics, 14% were Jews, while other religions comprised less than 1%. The city of ~~Kraków~~Cracow itself had a Jewish population reaching nearly 40%, while the rest were almost exclusively Polish-speaking Catholics.<ref name="censuses">''Censuses of the Austro-Hungarian Statistical Central Commission'', cited in Anson Rabinbach, ''The Migration of Galician Jews to Vienna.'' Austrian History Yearbook, Volume XI, Berghahn Books/Rice University Press, Houston 1975, p. 46/47 (table III)</ref> ==History==

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