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Known informally as Galicia, it became the largest, most populous, and northernmost province of the Austrian Empire. After 1867 it was part of the Austrian half of Austria-Hungary, until the dissolution of the monarchy at the end of World War I in 1918. Siege of Przemyśl in 1915
Galicia, historic region of eastern Europe that was a part of Poland before Austria annexed it in 1772; in the 20th century it was restored to Poland but was later divided between Poland and the Soviet Union. During the Middle Ages, eastern Galicia, situated between Hungary, Poland, and the western.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
This is a list of major cities and towns which belonged to the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria from the Congress of Vienna in 1815 until the dissolution of Austria-Hungary in 1918. Between those dates, the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria consisted mostly of the territories gained by the Habsburg Empire in the First Partition of Poland in 1772.
- Borders and Districts of Galicia
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- Historic Maps of Galicia
Galicia as a geopolitical entity was created in 1772 with the establishment of the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, the Habsburg Monarchy’s (later the Austrian Empire’s) easternmost crownland. The capital of the province was Lemberg (today Lviv). A century and a half later, in 1918, Galicia was wiped from the world’s maps, with the fall of the Aus...
The Polish digital library Polonahas a wonderful collection of high-resolution zoomable maps of Galicia. The website Topographic Maps of Eastern Europe, which offers a collection of small and large scale historical maps of the lands of the former Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Pale of Jewish Settlement in late Tsarist Russia, has a page dev...
Below is a collection of different types of historic maps of Galicia spanning from 1775 (the oldest map of Galicia I found, made just a few years after the creation of the crownland) through 1918, the year Galicia ceased to exist as administrative unit.
1850 – Administrative Reform, Bukovina became separate from Galicia. Galicia divided into 3 administrative districts (Regierungsbezirke) including Lemberg, Stanislau, and Krakau with 63 districts (Bezirkshauptmannschaften).
Buczacz is located in what used to be called Eastern Galicia, the eastern part of the southern Polish territory annexed by the Austro-Hungarian Empire in 1772 and made into the crownland of Galicia. Following World War I, Eastern Galicia was reattached to the new Polish state.
Apr 12, 2024 · Guide to Austrian Poland (Galicia) ancestry, family history, and genealogy: birth records, marriage records, death records, census records, and military records.
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