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Hungarian: Galícia/Gácsország/Halics; Romanian: Galiția/Halicia; Yiddish: גאַליציע, romanized :Galitsye. Map of the Principality of Halych in the 13th century, which formed the nucleus of what later became Galicia. Annexation of the Kingdom of Ruthenia by the Kingdom of Poland as part of the Galicia–Volhynia Wars.
Galicia. Region in southeastern Poland and northwestern Ukraine. Galicia existed as a crown land of the Habsburg Empire from the time of the first partition of Poland in 1772 until the end of World War I in 1918. (The name Galicia, or Galizien, was derived from Halicz, a city with nearby salt mines.) It included the districts of Zamość ...
Feb 5, 2018 · 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 ...
Maps of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. This group of maps depicts the larger empire of which Galicia was a part. Like Galicia but on a much greater scale, that empire evolved from the 1770s until its dissolution after World War I; the changes complicate any study of central Europe, not only for the shifting borders and political alliances but also through the official and common names of the empire.
About this map. Name: Galicia topographic map, elevation, terrain. Location: Galicia, Spain ( 41.80736 -9.30154 43.79042 -6.73395) Average elevation: 456 m. Minimum elevation: -2 m. Maximum elevation: 2,088 m. The interior of Galicia is characterized by a hilly landscape; mountain ranges rise to 2,000 m (6,600 ft) in the east and south. The ...
Part of the Center's Urban Media Archive, the digital collection of nearly 200 historical street maps and plans of almost 20 Galician cities (with more than 60 maps of Lviv/Lwów/Lemberg alone) is one the best resources for studying urban development in Galicia from before Habsburg times to the late 20th century.
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In 1772, when Galicia was annexed to the Habsburg Empire, there were between 150,000 and 200,000 Jews living there (5–6.5% of the total population). By 1857, the number had risen to 449,000 (9.6%). In 1900, Galician Jews numbered 811,000 (11.1%) and in 1910 about 872,000 (10.9%). See full article at the YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern ...
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