Editing Casimir III the Great (section)

=== Reforms ===
Casimir ensured stability and great prospects for the future of the country. He established the Corona Regni Poloniae – the Crown of the Polish Kingdom,<ref name="Dobrawski 2016 37"/> which certified the existence of the Polish lands independently from the monarch. Prior to that, the lands were only the property of the [[Piast dynasty]].

At the [[Sejm]] in [[Wiślica]], on 11 March 1347, Casimir introduced reforms to the Polish judicial system and sanctioned [[Civil law (private law)|civil]] and [[criminal law|criminal]] codes for Great and Lesser Poland, earning the title "the Polish Justinian".<ref name="Saxton" /> In 1364, having received permission from Pope Urban V, Casimir established the [[University of Kraków]], now the oldest university in Poland.<ref>{{Cite book|last1=Ness|first1=Daniel|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=F_FnBwAAQBAJ&pg=PA569|title=International Education: An Encyclopedia of Contemporary Issues and Systems|last2=Lin|first2=Chia-Ling|date=2015|publisher=Routledge|isbn=9781317467519|pages=569|language=en}}</ref> It was regarded as a rare distinction, since it was only the second university founded in Central Europe, after the Charles University in Prague.<ref name="Dobrawski 2016 37"/>