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Wawel Cathedral

1364 CE – still standing

Coronation cathedral of Polish kings on Wawel Hill in Kraków

Wikipedia

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Wawel Cathedral on Wikipedia.

Who held this ground

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Reconstruction

  1. Before it was built (3000 BCE–1300 CE)
  2. Poland-Lithuania (1400 CE–1600 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  3. Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (1650 CE–1715 CE) Border precision: Defined
  4. Habsburg Monarchy (1783 CE–1800 CE) Border precision: Defined
  5. Republic of Kraków (1815 CE) Border precision: Defined
  6. Austria Hungary (1880 CE–1900 CE) Border precision: Defined
  7. Austro-Hungarian Empire (1914 CE) Border precision: Defined
  8. Poland (1920 CE–2026 CE) Border precision: Defined
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Elsewhere in Europe at the time

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