Kraków Department (Polish: ''Departament krakowski'') was a unit of administrative division and local government in
Polish
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Duchy of Warsaw
The Duchy of Warsaw ( pl, Księstwo Warszawskie, french: Duché de Varsovie, german: Herzogtum Warschau), also known as the Grand Duchy of Warsaw and Napoleonic Poland, was a French client state established by Napoleon Bonaparte in 1807, during ...
in years 1809–1815.
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Its capital city was
Kraków and the area was further subdivided onto 10
powiat
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Kraków Department was formed following the annexation of Austrian
New Galicia
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by the Duchy of Warsaw in 1809 including areas of
Zamość
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and Kraków. The expansion resulted in the duchy's area increasing significantly, to around , with its population also increasing substantially, to roughly 4,300,000.
In 1815 it was transformed into
Kraków Voivodeship Kraków Voivodeship may also refer to:
*Kraków Voivodeship (14th century – 1795)
* Kraków Voivodeship (1816–1837)
*Kraków Voivodeship (1919–1939)
*Kraków Voivodeship (1945–1975)
*Kraków Voivodeship (1975–1998)
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, the city of Kraków itself was turned into the
Free City of Kraków
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References
History of Kraków
Departments of the Duchy of Warsaw
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