Kraków, situated on the Vistula River about…
1320 CE
Kraków, situated on the Vistula River about one hundred and sixty miles (two hundred and sixty kilometers) south of Warsaw becomes, in 1320, the capital of Poland on the crowning here of fifty-nine-year-old Piast monarch Wladyslaw I, under whom Poland, following the long period of feudal disintegration, is reunited and the government centralized.