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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
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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.
6 days ago · From 1786 to 1849 Austria administered the territory of Bukovina as part of Galicia. After the adjustments of 1815 (Congress of Vienna), Austria’s Polish possessions were called the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria; and the 1815 Republic of Cracow was added to them in 1846.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
In 1526, after the death of Louis II of Hungary, the Habsburgs inherited the Hungarian claims to the titles of the Kingship of Galicia and Lodomeria, together with the Hungarian crown. In 1772 the Habsburg Empress Maria Theresa , Archduchess of Austria and Queen of Hungary, used those historical claims to justify her participation in ...
in fine arts. The part of the Kingdom of Poland which Austria annexed in originally was the ancient Kingdom of Halych (Galicia) and (Lodomeria), populated by Ruthenians (later called Ukrainians), Poland occupied in the fourteenth century and renamed Czerwona. (Red Ruthenia). Austria reverted to its original (Latinized)
Galicia as a geopolitical entity was created in 1772 with the establishment of the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, the Habsburg Monarchy’s most eastern crownland. The capital of the province was Lemberg / Lwów / Lviv. A century and a half later, Galicia was wiped from the world’s maps, with the fall of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
Maps of the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, with Bukovina and other Habsburg Territories. Although the boundaries of the Kingdom of Galicia at its beginning in 1772 looked much like the boundaries at its end in 1918, in between there were many changes, both small and large; the historical maps linked here capture most of those changes.
