Cracow

[ krak-ou, krah-kou, krey-koh ]

noun

1. a city in S Poland, on the Vistula: the capital of Poland 1320–1609.

Cracow

/ ˈkrækaʊ; -əʊ; -ɒf /

noun

1. an industrial city in S Poland, on the River Vistula: former capital of the country (1320–1609); university (1364). Pop: 822 000 (2005 est) Polish nameKraków German nameKrakau

Example Sentences

Odessa was never renowned, like a Cracow or Vilnius, as a center of Jewish scholarship or culture.

From The Daily Beast

The musical taste and culture prevailing in Poland about 1819 is pretty accurately described by a German resident at Cracow.

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He bought a Cracow double-woven woollen night-cap, which he cut in two pieces and wrapped round his feet.

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And as in danzig thought he stoodThe petrograd, with eyes of flame, Came ypring through the cracow wood,And longwied as it came.

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Quarrels often occurred between the two adepts during the Cracow period.

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His principal works are in the churches of Cracow and Nuremberg.

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