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Cracow : an illustrated history / Zdzisław Żygulski, Jr.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Żygulski, Zdzisław
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Kraków (Poland)--History.
- Kraków (Poland).
- Physical Description:
- viii, 157 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Hippocrene Books, 2001.
- Contents:
- 1 Legends and Histories 1
- Primeval History of the Slavs and Mysterious Mounds 1
- Legends Instead of Historical Sources 2
- The Oldest Historical Tidings of Cracow 7
- King Boleslaw the Brave 10
- King Boleslaw the Bold and Bishop Stanislaw 13
- Capital of the State Divided into Principalities 14
- Tartar Invasion and the Location of a New City 18
- 2 The Time of Glory 25
- The Polish State United
- Wladyslaw the Short Crowned in Cracow 25
- King Kazimierz the Great 29
- Capital of Poland and Lithuania 34
- The Golden Age of Gothic Cracow 38
- The Renaissance in Cracow 41
- Tapestries of Wawel 47
- The First Elective Kings 49
- The Vasa Dynasty 53
- 3 The Time of Decline 61
- Cracow Captured by the Swedes 61
- Last Polish Kings and the Partitions of the Country 66
- 4 The Struggle for Liberty and the Rebirth 73
- Tadeusz Kosciuszko Declares the Insurrection of 24 March 1794 73
- The Napoleonic Wars and Cracow as a Free City 78
- Successive Uprisings 81
- Galician Autonomy 82
- Spiritual Capital of the Nation 86
- Young Poland 93
- Jozef Pilsudski and World War I 103
- The Inter-War Period 107
- World War II 118
- Communist Domination 133
- The Patriotic City 137
- Cracow in the Years 1989-2000 143.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 0781808375
- OCLC:
- 46792918
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