Free, Independent, and Strictly Neutral City of Cracow with its Territory Wolne, Niepodległe i Ściśle Neutralne Miasto Kraków i jego Okręg  (Polish)
1815–1846
Flag Coat of arms
Location of the Free, Independent, and Strictly Neutral City of Cracow with its Territory within Europe
Status	Protectorate of Austria, Prussia, and Russia
Capital	Cracow (Kraków)
Common languages	Polish (official) Yiddish German
Religion	Roman Catholic, Judaism
Government	Constitutional republic
President of the Senate
• 1815–1831	Stanisław Wodzicki
Legislature	Assembly of Representatives (Kraków)
History
• Established	3 May 1815
• November Uprising	29 November 1830
• Kraków Uprising	16 November 1846
Area
• Total	1,188.8 km2 (459.0 sq mi)
Currency	Polish zloty (to 1835) Kraków złoty (from 1835)
Preceded by Succeeded by Duchy of Warsaw Grand Duchy of Kraków Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria
Today part of	Poland

The Free City of Cracow^[a] was a city state created by the Congress of Vienna in 1815, which included the Polish city of Cracow and its surrounding land.

It was controlled by each its three neighbors (Russia, Prussia, and Austria). In 1846, in the aftermath of the failed Kraków uprising [en], the Free City of Cracow was taken over by the Austrian Empire.^[1] It was a leftover of the Duchy of Warsaw, which was partitioned among the three states after the Congress in 1815.

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