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Kraków city (Poland)

Malopolskie vojvodship

Last modified: 2002-12-28 by jarig bakker
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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 Malinowski. The city flag is the same as at <pl-mp-kr.html>
New: the city-banner: Scottish flag with Kraków's arms.
According to Luc Baronian: horizontal white over blue, with coat of arms centered. Flag adopted: 1815. - I've tried to get a decent image using the CoA on Ralf Hartemink's website (the old CoA, as depicted too in Louda's European Civic Coats of Arms).
It's not quite clear to me when the new symbols were introduced...
Jarig Bakker, 13 Dec 2002


New Kraków city banner

[New Kraków city banner] by Jarig Bakker, 13 Dec 2002

The city-banner: Scottish flag with Kraków's arms, as can be found on this webpage.
Jarig Bakker, 13 Dec 2002


Kraków Coat of Arms

[Kraków CoA] from this site reported by Robert M J Czernkowski, 6 May 1999