Krakow

//ˈkɹækaʊ// name

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  1. 1
    A city on the Vistula River, the capital of the Lesser Poland Voivodeship in southern Poland and the former capital (until 1596) of Poland as a whole.

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cracow

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"The train from Krakow to Warsaw had to stop because of a young Muslim who had started to say a Mohammedan prayer."

Etymology

From Middle English crakou, crawcow.

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