Kraków Department (Polish: ''Departament krakowski'') was a unit of administrative division and local government in Polish

Duchy of Warsaw The Duchy of Warsaw (; ; ), also known as the Grand Duchy of Warsaw and Napoleonic Poland, was a First French Empire, French client state established by Napoleon Bonaparte in 1807, during the Napoleonic Wars. It initially comprised the ethnical ...

in years 1809–1815.The Duchy of Warsaw, 1807-1815: A Napoleonic Outpost in Central Europe 1472524144 Jaroslaw Czubaty - 2016 According to Baczkowski, civil servants of the Kraków Department sometimes blocked initiatives from the municipal ... Its capital city was Kraków and the area was further subdivided onto 10

powiat A ''powiat'' (; ) is the second-level unit of local government and administration in Poland, equivalent to a county, district or prefecture (Local administrative unit, LAU-1 ormerly Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics, NUTS-4 ...

s. Kraków Department was formed following the annexation of Austrian New Galicia by the Duchy of Warsaw in 1809 including areas of

Zamość Zamość (; ; ) is a historical city in southeastern Poland. It is situated in the southern part of Lublin Voivodeship, about from Lublin, from Warsaw. In 2021, the population of Zamość was 62,021. Zamość was founded in 1580 by Jan Zamoyski ...

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, the city of Kraków itself was turned into the Free City of Kraków.

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