Europe · High and late Middle Ages
Grand Duchy of Kraków
drawn on the map 1279–1293
Kraków and its province were the indivisible seat of the senior/High Duke under the 1138 testament — whoever held Kraków held nominal primacy over Poland. Possession of Kraków was therefore the great prize of the fragmentation wars, and its holder eventually restored the kingdom; Kraków remained the royal capital and coronation city into the 16th century.
- Shown on the map
- 1279–1293
- Peak area
- 27k km²
- Region
- Europe
Overview
Kraków and its province were the indivisible seat of the senior/High Duke under the 1138 testament — whoever held Kraków held nominal primacy over Poland. Possession of Kraków was therefore the great prize of the fragmentation wars, and its holder eventually restored the kingdom; Kraków remained the royal capital and coronation city into the 16th century.
Common questions
- What was the Grand Duchy of Kraków?
- Kraków and its province were the indivisible seat of the senior/High Duke under the 1138 testament — whoever held Kraków held nominal primacy over Poland. Possession of Kraków was therefore the great prize of the fragmentation wars, and its holder eventually restored the kingdom; Kraków remained the royal capital and coronation city into the 16th century.
- When is the Grand Duchy of Kraków shown on the map?
- The border data draws the Grand Duchy of Kraków 1279–1293. The source samples borders at fixed dates, so a span can begin late or run on past the end.
- How large was the Grand Duchy of Kraków?
- At its greatest extent drawn on this map, the Grand Duchy of Kraków covered about 27,000 km². That is the largest area the border data gives it across the years it is drawn, not necessarily its greatest extent in history.
Sources
This compendium cites its sources once for the whole document rather than per territory. Its bibliography names the English Wikipedia articles for each territory as the primary basis, with Encyclopædia Britannica, the World History Encyclopedia, academic works (John Fine on the Balkans, Halperin and Martin on Muscovy, Rady and Veszprémy on Hungary) and, for a few entries, the medieval Livonian Chronicle of Henry itself. The article this entry is anchored on:
- Wikipedia — Grand Duchy of Kraków en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Duchy_of_Krak%C3%B3w
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Border geometry for the map itself comes from Cliopatria v0.12 (Seshat Global History Databank, CC-BY-4.0).
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