Search results
The Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, also known as Austrian Galicia or colloquially Austrian Poland, was a constituent possession of the Habsburg monarchy in the historical region of Galicia in Eastern Europe.
- Borders and Districts of Galicia
- Map Resources
- 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.
The Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, 1772 V. J. KAYE The year 1972 marks the 200th anniversary of a tragic historical event, the partition of the Polish Kingdom between the three great European powers, Russia, Prussia, and Austria. The part which Austria occupied is of particular interest to Canada,
The Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria ("Galicia") was created as a crownland of the Habsburg Monarchy in 1772 as part of the First Partition of Poland, an agreement with the Kingdom of Prussia and the Russian Empire to divide what had been the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
v. t. e. Theodemar (or Ariamir ), king of Galicia with the bishops Lucrecio, Andrew, and Martin. Codex Vigilanus (or Albeldensis), Escurial library. The origin of the kingdom lies in the 5th century, when the Suebi settled permanently in the former Roman province of Gallaecia.
Sep 25, 2023 · Halych and Volhynia (in Latin Galicia and Lodomeria) was a Rurik dynasty duchy that became a kingdom in Eastern Europe before it was annexed by the Austrian Empire. After World War One, it ceased to exist. Find out why and learn about its people in this article.
The Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, a crown land of Austria-Hungary, was subdivided into political districts ( German: Bezirkshauptmannschaften) for administrative purposes, which were referred to in Polish as powiaty (administrative counties).
