Ostrowski, Jan K.: Cracow (Cracow [u.a.], 1992)

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5. Market Square with the town hall tower. Cloth Hall and St Adalbert; St Mary
to the right

Cracow, notably the. Genoeses, who traded with their native
country, but also reached far to the east for business.

The ethnic composition of the town was rapidly diversifying.
Beginning in the fourteenth century, another numerous and
distinct ethnic element, alongside the Poles, Germans and Italians,
were the Jews. They had lived here earlier, but their community
reached significant proportions only in the fourteenth century,
due to persecution in other countries and the protection and

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