The Republic of Kraków

[@SirManateee]

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[@NeroPiroman]

shoutout to victoria II map

[@Oldass_Deadass_dumbass_channel]

Opposite of a shout-out to the other one's map. You know, the other one. the one we don't like to talk about, or acknowledge the existence of or -accurately represent the sales-

[@panzerofthelake506]

Krakow is usually the richest country per capita in Victoria III

[@schretlenaugustijn2391]

I literally only know of this country’s existence because of Vicky and the countless World conquest videos I’ve seen people do

[@NeroPiroman]

@@schretlenaugustijn2391 thats where I learned about it as well, it was allways a pain wasting infamy on a one province minor

[@bartoszufo655]

I learned that there was cracow as country from age of history II

[@karolkapczynski8700]

Finally, a non-polish historian that can pronounce Polish words, thank you I appreciate it

[@kubacubekubakck6896]

hes good tho

[@MaybeYou911]

Same opinion

[@Eokoi]

That's so pleasant to hear

[@Artur_M.]

Hurray! One of my favorite HistoryTubers is not only (excellently) covering Polish history yet again, but a topic that is rarely talked about even here in Poland!

[@SirManateee]

Hehe, thank you so much! It's always nice to read your comments :)

[@retroanimemike]

"From the top of this hill you have a wonderful view overall of Kraków" - me being blinded and shocked by an industrial chimney that dwarfs everything in sight.

[@SirManateee]

matter of taste i guess

[@antonisauren8998]

It's city heating plant. It must be close to residential districts.

[@stanisawzietek6944]

As a pole I just wanted to tell you that your pronounciations of polish words is perfect. It can be seen that you pu a lot of effort into practicing it. Thank you for that!

[@Ben01tM]

Living just a 20 minute walk from Wawel now it's truly shocking that my home wouldn't be a part of the republic since Podgórze remained Austrian.

[@easterneurope451]

Its even harder to imagine Krakow was not a part of Poland from the very begining (966), it was conquered by Poland a few decades later. Some say it was orthodox before the conquest.

[@sttthr]

@@easterneurope451 "Orthodox" before ca. 980? The Great Schism happened in 1054, when Kraków was already part of Poland. The settlement was likely christianized before the conquest, either by Great Moravia or Bohemia, so the Piast dynasty founded church structure might not have been the first one there, but calling it orthodox sounds anachronistic.

[@easterneurope451]

​@@sttthrright, technically the pre schism church was still the same church. Where did you get the 980s date? The very first historical maps i looked up online say it was the 990s, im curious.

[@sttthr]

@@easterneurope451 There are no documents from that period, other than "Dagome iudex" and no maps of the it that weren't made centuries later. It's known that Kraków wasn't part of the Gniezno State in 966, and it was certainly part of it in 1000, when the local diocese was established. Everything inbetween is a guess. If you assume the later the more likely it is, then sure, 990s. But it's not like the things you learn about that period are facts, they're guesses, so why does it matter?

[@easterneurope451]

@@sttthr i am simply wondering why these school maps pop up with 990s rather than 980s, you say that's a guess, i am fine with that. I am not challenging 980s anyhow.

[@Alaryk111]

15:24 fun fact: :emberg's Polizmaister Lepold Nepomuk von Sacher was a father to a writer leopold von Sacher-Masoch from whos name the term Masochism is derived.

[@mareksicinski3726]

yep hes got a statue there

[@goscodfilmow]

Greetings from a native Krakus!

[@kubin226]

Actually Krakow was technically the capital till the 3rd partition, Vasa only moved the royal residence there

[@SirManateee]

You're not wrong. But that still made Warsaw the seat of power.

[@okon7464]

​@@SirManateee But polish kings still were buried in Wawel in Kraków

[@okon7464]

​@@SirManateee And Zygmunt III Waza moves his Residence to Warsaw because it would be closer to his motherland - Sweden, which was unionized with Poland under the Zygmunt's control

[@cloacky4409]

@@okon7464 Polish presidents and well renowned people are still being buried in Wawel

[@imperatormaximus8952]

​@@SirManateeeIt should be noted that the Sejm was still seated in Kraków.

[@annafirnen4815]

Oh I didn't expect a video about my city. Great work!

[@dziusznik]

I am impressed with pronunciation. You do your research well. One thing thought - for most of the time Kazimierz and Kraków was separated by a river. They even found a remains of old bridge when the tram line on Krakowska street was renovated. The Dietla an Starowiślna street are remnants of that. The latter literally mean Old Vistula Street

[@theconqueringram5295]

I love it when KZbinrs make videos about obscure subjects. No one seems to talk about the Free City of Cracow and even though it's history as a 'Free, Independent and Strictly Neutral City' was brief, it does have some interesting events.

[@Filip-bh9rn]

Your pronoucation is really good, I honestly thought you were a Pole in the begining of the video, really well done, especially since Polish phonology is hard to learn for foreigners!

[@Swiatowykryptomin]

Cóż, nie mieszkam w Krakowie, ale tam byłem 🇵🇱❤🇵🇱

[@WaybackHistoryChannel]

Ayy very cool to see another KZbinr cover this fascinating city-state - although I must admit I cannot compete on the pronunciations, well done sir!

[@SamAronow]

Kraków may have culture, but did it get its own David Bowie song? Thank you for your work- and for helping me behind-the-scenes with the 1910 German Census. Re: the Jewish community: eliminating "traditional" dress (really just the lingering fashions of the Polish Golden Age) was only relevant to Hasidim and some more old-fashioned Mitnagdim, who would have been a rare sight in Kraków already. Due to Kraków's geographic location, its community would have been far more Maskilic (culturally westernized and politically liberal) than in the Pale of Settlement (now Ukraine, Moldova, Belarus, and Lithuania), though not as westernized as the lands of the German Confederation.

[@SirManateee]

Thanks for clarifying that :)

[@Wagner1934_PL]

The Jews in Krakow never assimilated with the Polish population. Until 1795, Jews were forbidden to leave the ghetto in Kazimierz, the Jagiellonian University introduced restrictions on non-Polish students, only Poles could sell in the main hall in Krakow, etc. And after the introduction of laws for Jews in Krakow, the popularity of Endecja (National Democracy) increased, its aim was to support only Catholic merchants and entrepreneurs

[@TheBard1999]

Common conception about treatment of Jews in Poland is very distorted compared to reality. A common myth is that Casimir city was founded for Jews, while in reality Krakow's Jewish population was expelled into a tiny part of Casimir after a pogrom in 15th century.

[@aleksanderkorecki7887]

​@@TheBard1999And what about Statute of Kalisz and Warsaw Confederation. Are they a misconception as well? It's also worth mentioning that it was king John Albert who ordered the Jews out of Kazimierz and allowed them to settle in Bawół district and years after that Jews built their own walls: "Jewish Qahal petitioned the Kazimierz town council for the right to build its own interior walls, cutting across the western end of the older defensive walls in 1553."

[@metanoian965]

@@Wagner1934_PL Why the concern for Polish economy ?

[@marcinraczkowski3267]

This event was hardly covered in history schools in Poland. Nice to see someone cover it on youtube. It's important to note that the reason why upraising fell was basically because >at that time< underclasses were treated better by occupying forces then they used to be treated by szlachta before. A serf was basically a slave to the owner of the village. So no wonder they didnt' want to fight to restore that.

[@Riftrender]

The Austrians did treat the Poles far better than the Prussians and Russians at least.

[@lookash3048]

Austria had even two Polish prime ministers.

[@senseipiotrki1784]

Greetings from a native Krakauer :) cool vid

[@dominikr8428]

I LOVE you for checking how to pronounce the Polish words

[@saladcat8305]

Great video as always

[@SirManateee]

Cheers!

[@bronkobjama3154]

My boy is finally getting sponsorships. Glad to hear it! It’s quality content and I hope that this leads to more content

[@feodorz562]

He is a male manatee, not just a boy!

[@atcgames663]

Great Video

[@konduktorpklpriv3133]

Good and informed video as always, also nailing the pronunciations again, keep going sir.

[@Abraxium]

You keep hitting niche subjects I enjoy

[@holymusic3108]

Thanks for the video Chief. History really hits different when you actually live in the said city

[@mattimations7388]

Amazing video

[@SirManateee]

Cheers!

[@mateuszdudek5697]

It's so fucking funny and sad for me that as a polish collage student I learned more about Krakow from a random YT recommendation than I did in all my 12 years at school. Great video (we rly need a school reform here 😢)

[@Macion-sm2ui]

Maybe because it's not as important as other things. You can't learn everything in school. If your education went correctly you should at least heared about November Upraising, Galician uprising (Rabacja), Nowosilcow, peoples buried in Wawel Cathedral, Kazimierz discrict and Jews living there and maybe other things that I missed in this video. Political decisions and economy of Kraków Republic definitelly aren't the most important parts of history to learn in school.

[@Ralphieboy]

Gettin Jagiellonian with it!!! But seriously, I visited Kraków for a week in 2016 and would love to get back there again, I feel like we barely scratched the surface.

[@pz9mo1221]

NOICE Pronunciation DUDE

[@kidmohair8151]

and what I learned? that there was a Free Republic of Krakow. I had no idea. once again, thank you for your exposition of the history of MittelEuropa.

[@victinity]

Babe wake up, new Manatee video just dropped

[@ScarletEdge]

Thank you for the respectful pronunciation of Polish words. +1 sub.

[@mateuszkubas4433]

An Interesting Story about Nikolay Novosiltsev: While few people might know him as the Russian curator of the Jagiellonian University, he's actually much more known in Polish history for his different, at first glance less significant role as the curator for the Vilnus University Why? While working at this position, he was responsible for dismantling secret organisations of Polish patriots on the University, the Society of Philomaths & Philarets, and arresting many of their members, among them the most important poet of the Polish Romanticism, the young Adam Mickiewicz. This event influenced Mickiewicz's life by causing a deportation to the south of Russia, to Crimea, where he wrote the Crimean Sonets & other important works of Polish literature, and came into contact with famous Russian conspirators (Decemberists) & poets (like Pushkin) of that era, many of whom he became friends with, later on aiding him in leaving Russia to join the Polish emigrants abroad.

[@guyg1980]

Awesome video! Could you do one about Strasbourg? (though you did talk on alsace lorraine in general)

[@SirManateee]

I definitely should do that. Would you prefer its history under the German Empire or under the France during the Interwar era? ;)

[@quuaaarrrk8056]

​@@SirManateeeWhy not both ;) In all honesty, I think its history of the interwar years is rarely talked about (U have to admit, I too know virtually nothing about it), and definitely deserves some explaining.

[@guyg1980]

​@@SirManateeeBoth? You could tell about how it was administrated and rebuilt by both imperial Germany and France. It's a really beautiful city with different architectural styles.

[@commandersaturn7168]

Your channel defo deserves more subs ,you have a knack for covering niche topics that most people want to know about ,that get glossed under wider narratives.

[@ShadowSkryba]

And just like that you have thaught me more about the Republic of Kraków than my advanced history lessons

[@SereglothIV]

It's kinda bizzare that they demolished so many important buildings during that time. Also, perfect pronounciation of Polish names, as always!

[@kul_jmeno3819]

Ayoo! didn't expect my hometown in Czechia to get mentioned in this vid!

[@chiefkeef6085]

As a Pole I must admit that I am shocked to see a person who does not speak Polish can pronounce Polish words, the first time in my life I meet with such a thing and I can not get out of admiration, I expected a rather Americanized version of the word Kraków which has nothing to do with reality and here such a surprise

[@genorata]

ah yes the Free, Independent, and Strictly Neutral City of Cracow with its Territory

[@LuchieFurbixr]

Amazing video, you should cover Wrocław/Breslau history next!

[@SirManateee]

You are right, I should

[@insomniac489]

Welcome back!

[@SirManateee]

Yeah sorry for my long absence. Uni was quite brutal in the past two months

[@maciekszymanski8340]

There is a saying: To become a resident of Warsaw, just get off at the Central Station. To become a Krakowian, you must have lived in Krakow for at least 300 years. What distinguishes Kraków from the rest of Poland is its unique sense of humor: very Polish but not typical Polish.

[@presstmoded]

Such a nice, quick run through one of many time periods of the city I was born in, live in whole my live and most likely will die in. Thank you!

[@GoodOlPain9]

Ah, my hometown. I always take a train to Kraków after school just to walk around and admire the history.

[@SirManateee]

Kraków's beauty is really indescribable

[@aleksanderkorecki7887]

Well, Kraków revolutionaries planned abolition of serfdom to convince the peasants to join them, but Austrians caught the wind of this plan and issued their own predated proclamation. Edward Dembowski who was shown on one of the paintings was quite progressive, leftist even. Marx later criticized Metternich for handling Kraków revolution in such manner, as he considered Polish revolutionaries sympathetic to the peasant cause (despite most of them being nobles). He thought that the peasants were manipulated by Austrians into commiting brutal massacre and turning on people who were a much better alternative for them than the Austrians.

[@44lucas]

What a great video about my city! I am ashamed to admit that I learned a lot even though my history teachers should have given me this knowledge before you did....

[@Rapture-nv5vj]

Great video😁

[@Frd2004]

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[@nhelv808]

Wow, great pronunciation!

[@Luxnutz1]

Fantastic!!!! I find it interesting how Napolionic Code said that every man is equal under the Law except for the Jews. Everybody looks to the USA with dedication due to the slave issue. Hypocrisy. It seems that there are issues that are mentioned in this episode concerning assimilation and the give and take of Identity that seem to haunt countries in Western Europe right now. Sir Manatee, I will be rewatching this episode like the others. Awesome stories!!!! Thank You

[@SirManateee]

Thanks, my friend :)

[@Luxnutz1]

You got it!!!! Your videos make my day. Talent mixed with knowledge is soo important@@SirManateee

[@metanoian965]

There were NO issues with Ashkenazi assimilation. This tribe of foreigners could leave anytime and go West. For 500 years this tribe chose voluntarily to stay separated from Goy Christian Culture and keep their own traditions and German Yiddisher lingo. The tribe chose its ghettos and shtetls. Rabbinic choosing.

[@Schwizinberg]

Jak tylko usłyszałem twoją wymowę nazwy miasta Kraków, od razu wiedziałem, że mam do czynienia z rodakiem! Jest to pierwszy filmik jaki spotkałem od ciebie i subik leci

[@dominikr8428]

nie chcę cię rozczarować, ale...

[@SereglothIV]

... on jest Niemcem :P

[@Schwizinberg]

nie spodziewałem się że obcokrajowiec jest w stanie wypowiedzieć poprawnie ,,Kraków", dzięki za uświadomienie 😂 tak czy siak dobra robota u niego

[@lookash3048]

Niemcy mają często zaskakująco dobry akcent, kiedy mówią w języku polskim.

[@jjreddick377]

Long live the Republic of Krakow

[@awagga]

mate not only you have a really good pronunciation of polish names and words, which is lets be honest, not expected for non polish people to get cuz this language is basically simlish to foreigners so big ups for that. But also by watching your video i learned way more about the topic than i ever did in school cuz it basically occupied like half a page at most in the book, so thank you for being pretty much better at teaching about that part of history than the polish school system lolmao💀

[@SirManateee]

Yeah, surprisingly enough, the topic has not really been researched in a large scale yet and finding sources has been rather difficult. I had to draw my information from multiple books and articles who only focus on very certain aspects

[@kaanyasin3733]

OH MY GOD I ALWAYS WONDERED ABOUT IT

[@MatthieuDeW]

6:43, that's the Pranger and Rathaus at Der Ring in Breslau (now Pregierz and Ratusz at Rynek in Wroclaw), not Krakow ;)

[@SirManateee]

Well spotted ;)

[@betelgezaa]

Very interesting and substantiated. At the end he said - danke schon-)))

[@ProGremlinPlayer]

This tickled that niche topic itch I had.

[@VonTurtle8282]

great vid!

[@mikemorrissey5467]

Thank you I tuned in so I can sit here and watch a lengthy commercial on your World of Warships video game. OUT

[@bluelola4480]

What an amazing channel! ❤❤❤

[@Bluelampguy]

Very cool. Keep it up

[@rakaspdn7722]

It strange to me, as a Polish, to hear someone speaking English (not Pole) who says "Kraków" instead of incorrect Krakow xD

[@Northerner-NotADoctor]

I noticed several minor mistakes: 6:00 In that context of Kraków was not trading the said goods with "the rest of Poland" but with the southern parts of Polish Kingdom (which was in personal union with the Russian Empire). 7:33 It was not majority of Cracovians who lived in Kazimierz, but it was the majorty of Cracovian Jews who did so. 7:52 Jews did not develope their unique identity because some of them lived in Cracow in 1840's. They brought their unique national identity to Kraków some 500 years prior (in 1340's-1360's), because they had it developed some 3000 years before they arrived to Cracow in any significant numbers. Polish law simply allowed them to built their own towns and keep their law&customs inside their walls. 9:07 They were not sent to Christian schools, but the municipal schools where all Abrahamic religions of Cracow were treated equally (Catholics, Jews, Orthodox and Protestants). Cracow was very liberal for that time. 12:50 The old Town Hall was demolished some 100 years AFTER dissolving the Free City of Cracow. Germans did it during the II WW.

[@jacekszkutnik6294]

no, he is right and you are wrong about the Town Hall.

[@Northerner-NotADoctor]

@@jacekszkutnik6294 Ok, on the first glance it really looks that on the Town Hall issue my memory failed me. The part of the town hall destroyed in 1946 was destroyed not by Germans, but by Poles because it was built by Germans (Austrians) since it was not presumebly an original part of the townhall.

[@okon7464]

The more accurate name of 'Galician Uprising' is 'Galician Slaughter' and this is the name that we use in Poland (Rzeź galicyjska, otherway rabacja galicyjska) because there was no 'uprising' but more like killing every szlachta people because austrian said so. That's very sad example how strange country can divide people so they wont reach their goal - freedom

[@vojtechsulc5899]

Feeling Victoria 2 vibes

[@mateuszkubas4433]

Absolutely marvelous pronunciation of Polish words! I would be seriously wondering if you were actually Polish if not for the (slight) accent!

[@Gameinger16]

wait i thought the strictly neutral bit was a joke, but no, that was its official name.

[@Bergdampf]

Fantastisch! Nur eine Frage; wird es bald ein weiteres Video zum Ständestaat geben? Tolle Arbeit noch mal.

[@SirManateee]

Der Ständestaat hätte in einer drei- bis vierteiligen Serie aufgearbeitet werden sollen. Allerdings wurde ich ein bisschen durch andere Themen abgelenkt. Wenn alles gut läuft, werden bald weitere Folgen erscheinen. Generall will ich mich in Zukunft häufiger mit dem Österreich der Zwischenkriegszeit beschäftigen.

[@Bergdampf]

Verstanden, dankeschön für die Antwort. Ich freue mich auf das nächste Video.

[@rod9829]

Nice

[@KonnigerPL]

Yoooo, vid about my home 😍

[@SirManateee]

It's nice to see this many Krakovians here :)

[@KonnigerPL]

@@SirManateee Best city in poland after all, even have my own white and blue flag at home 😅​

[@nabilabidaoud5226]

Great video I loved the music might I ask which songs you chose?

[@taka2721]

I often find myself wondering how would Kraków look like were Republic of Kraków to last until Polish independance. Would economic problems leave it in even worse situation than it was in the interwar period, or would it dig itself out of the gutter, to become prosperous and populus polish city

[@IDC-why-not]

A, E, I, O, U du gehörst auch mit dazu

[@badboje6040]

If youre going to cover lesser known historical states it would be interesting to see you cover the free state of fiume :)

[@SirManateee]

I have indeed thought about that

[@LukasNse]

Heartbreaking that the republican authorities demolished so many historical and culturally significant structures.

[@perseo7954]

Great video, as always. Could you share with me the song's name at minute one. i've listened it before, but I can't remember the name and i've been trying to find it, thanks!

[@hagymascsiposgyros5780]

omg the thing from vic 3

[@specialted1]

I had no idea this was even a thing….

[@michawiktor9592]

greets from cracow

[@Ryuko-T72]

@12:37 torn down the medieval walls. Sad!

[@battlnerd2128]

it's nice hearing someone pronounce "Kraków" properly after years of hearing "Crack ow" in english-speaking communities

[@lookash3048]

I prefer "Krakow" pronunciation because in any other grammar case, beside Nominative and Accusative, you use o instead of ó in Polish pronunciation. Krakowa, Krakowowi, Krakowa, Krakowem, Krakowie!.

[@guutsk8725]

I would want to see how was life there

[@williamszy2827]

Jaxa when

[@IQuittednow]

My city

[@wf5224]

First half of Krakow’s history Seems awfully similar to Hong Kong’s,and the end of krakow is not good(thought about it as the video mentioned Hong Kong’s size in compere )

[@zmorgzmum1009]

Za honor i chwałe!

[@tablecjuszomega]

@18:41 what Russian folk song Kalinka has to do with Kraków? Is this a trope 'all Slavs are Russians'?

[@SirManateee]

no i use it in all my outros, no matter the topic

[@tavishnundoo6002]

Hallo

[@SirManateee]

Moin

[@calvincoolidge5943]

IT is a myth that Sigismund III moved capital city to Warsaw

[@dominikr8428]

You mean that it became the king's residence but the *capital city* was still Kraków?

[@calvincoolidge5943]

@@dominikr8428 yes

[@calvincoolidge5943]

@@dominikr8428 Kraków was continuously the capital until the partitions of 1795

[@Artur_M.]

@dominikr8428 Even before Sigismund III Vasa made Warsaw the main royal residence, Warsaw was the city where the Sejm (parliament) was most often gathering, and all royal elections were held in Warsaw (or rather next to it). So, I would say that Warsaw became the de facto capital. All that really remained from Kraków's role as a capital was being the place of coronations. And even then, the last king, Stanisław August Poniatowski, was crowned in Warsaw. The first coronation of Stanisław Leszczyński in 1705 also took place in Warsaw, but it is kinda debatable if it was legit. BTW, the sessions of Sejm were also sometimes held in other places: Hrodna (Grodno), Lublin, and Piotrków. The last two were also the cities where the sessions of the Crown Tribunal were held. That's why Piotrków became known as Piotrków Trybunalski.

[@hoiblobvis]

i love the trade goods of blue meth steel bars and black shoes

[@leventealbert6973]

talk about hungary

[@SirManateee]

I will

[@cheeseburgurcheese]

Also, in eastern Galicia lower class was mostly from ukrainians (for example, in that time Lviv with mostly polish population was like an enclave, surrounded by villages and small cities with mostly ukrainian and jewish population). Regarding the Ukrainian pro-austrian side in the Spring of nations in 1848, it could be an explanation as well

[@josephfioretti6851]

Crazy

[@MrAdamo]

Thank you for not calling it crack-ow :)

[@SirManateee]

Calling it that would be rather mean

[@TheLocalLt]

That’s how it’s pronounced in English, based on the German “Krakau”, although I understand why it can be a sensitive issue

[@theunholyburger9338]

9:21 its Kahal not Qahal

[@MarbelCube]

Shotout to paradox players who overdosed Kraków

[@jldldr3933]

*Gasps* :D