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Bielski Marcin
Marcin Bielski, Polish writer and historian, was born in 1495 and died in 1575 in the village Biała, almost 200km from Krakow. As a young man he was a courtier of Piotr Kmita, the Grand Crown Marshal and Krakow mayor. In 1531 he took part in a battle at Obertyn.
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Bielany
Bielany is the name of the south-western part of Las Wolski, forest located only around 7km from Krakow city centre. The central part of Bielany is Srebrna Góra(Silver Mountain), high hill with a Camaldolese monastery on the top of it. The name of the convent comes from the name of
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The Sceptre of Mastership in Art
This unique award is given by Krakow city council for the outstanding contribution in Polish art and culture. Till this moment only few artists were honoured by this award: Jan Matejko in 1877, who gave it back to the city as a protest against the demolishing of the buildings of
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The Mayor’s Sceptre
The Historical Museum of Krakow has a unique and valuable exhibit, one of the insignias of city authorities, the mayor’s sceptre. Its length is 22,8cm and it weights 429g. It is made out of silver and partly covered with gold and rich decorations. It was made at the beginning of
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Bednarski Wojciech
Wojciech Bednarski, a teacher and a social activist, was born in 1841 in Kunice and died in 1914 in Krakow. In 1869-1894 he was a headmaster of the first primary school in Podgórze, he was also a mayor of Podgórze, which is now one of the Krakow’s central districts, but
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Bażanka Kasper
Kasper Bażanka was born in 1680 and died in 1726. He was an outstanding architect, Krakow’s mayor, author of several late baroque buildings in Krakow. Some of his works are: Missionaries church at Stradom St Loreto house at the Capuchin church Piarist church at Pijarska St The gate in front
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Bauminger Hersz
Hersz Bauminger was an activist of Jewish resistance movement during the Nazi occupation of Poland. He was born in 1919 in Krakow in a Jewish family, his farther Szymon was one of the leaders of syonistic-orthodox party Mizrach. During his teenage years Hersz was a member of Haszomer Hadati, youth
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Academic Battalion
It was organized by students of Jagiellonian University at the beginning of November 1918. It was a volunteer military unit which purpose was to protect life, health and property of citizens of Krakow. As Dr Stanisław Mayer was writing in his column in “Gazeta Krakowska”(Krakow Newspaper) “the city was vulnerable
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Barczewski Probus
Probus Barczewski was a landlord from Ukraine, who in 1884 as the last one in his dynasty donated 50 000 Austro-Hungarian guldens  to the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow. Part of this quote was used as a prize for outstanding historical and artistic works. The fund named after Probus Barczewski
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Baraniecki Adrian
Adrian Baraniecki was a doctor of medicine, social activist and popularizer of education. He was born in Jarmolińce in 1828 and died in Krakow in 1891. He studied medicine in Kyiv, Moscow and Paris. In 1858 he founded the Polish Doctors’ Society in Paris which main task was to support
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