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Kraków city (Poland)

Malopolskie vojvodship

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Kraków city flag

[Kraków flag] by Antonio Martins, 21 May 1999

Kraków: horizontal white over blue, with coat of arms centered. Flag adopted: 1815.
Luc Baronian, 18 May 1999

The flag is also known without a coat of arms.
Pascal Vagnat, 19 May 1999

According to my Polish history atlas, Kraków was a republic (or free city) from 1815 to 1846. Did it have a flag?
Ole Andersen, 25 Nov 1999

According to Jan Miller, "Choragwie i Flagi Polskie" Warsaw, 1962, p.12, ill.6, it had a white-blue bicolor.
Norman M. Martin, 25 Nov 1999

Which proportions did it have? And did the town have other flags?
Ole Andersen, 26 Nov 1999

Free City of Cracow (called also Republic of Cracow) had flag horizontally white-blue. Cracow was annexed by Austria in 1846. White-blue flag stayed as unofficial municipal flag.
Grzegorz Skrukwa, 6 April 2000

Kraków city flag with arms

[Kraków flag + CoA] by Jarig Bakker, 13 Dec 2002

At this webpage are images and despcriptions of the new symbols of Krakow, the birthplace of the great anthropologist Bronislaw