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Definition of Krakau
1. Noun. An industrial city in southern Poland on the Vistula.
Generic synonyms: City, Metropolis, Urban Center
Group relationships: Poland, Polska, Republic Of Poland
Lexicographical Neighbors of Krakau
Literary usage of Krakau
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The California earthquake of April 18, 1906: Report of the state earthquake by Andrew Cowper Lawson, Harry Fielding Reid (1910)
"... time of beginning of the principal part. The lines just below the seismograms
are the records of a different hour. Krakau, AUSTRIA. KK Sternwarte, Prof. ..."
2. Meyers Grosses Konversations-Lexikon by Hermann Julius Meyer (1902)
"Dichter, geb. 11. Sept. 1838 in Kalisch. aest. 2. Aug. 1897 in Krakau ... 1869)
und »Der Kampf der Parteien» (Krakau 1869), ferner das Drama »Cola Rienzi» ..."
3. The World in the Middle Ages: An Historical Geography, with Accounts of the by Adolph Ludvig Køppen (1854)
"Among the numerous mausoleums is that of Saint Stanislaus, Bishop of Krakau, whom
King Boleslaus the Bold killed before the altar. Near Krakau lie -the ..."
4. Popular Science Monthly (1904)
"He had four children: Barbara, who died abbess of the Cistercians at Culm;
Katherina, who married a merchant of Krakau; and two sons, Andreas and Nicolaus. ..."