Krakow becomes the capital of Casimir the Great's Poland
1357
Casimir III completed his renovation of Krakow with a new university charter, stone fortifications, and a legal code that earned him his epithet. He found Poland built of wood and left it built of stone, the saying went. Under his rule Poland became the refuge of Europe's persecuted Jews and a center of Gothic learning.
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Late Middle Ages (1301–1500), one of 874 events from that era on Saeculum.