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Galicia ( / ɡəˈlɪʃ ( i) ə / gə-LISH (-ee)-ə; [1] Polish: Galicja, IPA: [ɡaˈlit͡sja] ⓘ; Ukrainian: Галичина, romanized : Halychyna, IPA: [ɦɐlɪtʃɪˈnɑ]; Yiddish: גאַליציע, romanized : Galitsye) is a historical and geographic region spanning what is now southeastern Poland and western Ukraine, long part of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
4 days ago · Ukraine. Bukovina. 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.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Feb 5, 2018 · “A partly-colored administrative map of (East) Galicia and the short-lived Austrian province of West Galicia (including Lublin and Radom), made just after the merger of the Two Galicias and a few years before West Galicia was lost to the Duchy of Warsaw…the map shows political boundaries, ranks towns by three size symbols, identifies ...
In 1873, Galicia became de facto an autonomous province of Austria-Hungary with Polish and (to a much lesser degree) Ukrainian or Ruthenian as official languages. The Germanisation had been halted and the censorship lifted as well.
Mar 7, 2022 · Following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022, Kovalska fled to Poland, where she’s currently staying with relatives. Atlas Obscura spoke with Kovalska about Galicia’s ...
- Sarah Durn
Maps of Galician Kreise. Maps of Interwar Poland (1919 to 1939) Maps of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic (1939 to 1941) For more information about how to interpret and use these maps for family history and other research, see the References section in the Map Room.
Digital images of maps covering the historic region of Galicia in our inventory are acquired with permission from archives, libraries, and both public and private collections in modern Poland, Ukraine, Austria, Germany, Israel, and the United States. For more information, contact the Gesher Galicia Digital Maps Manager at: maps@geshergalicia.org.
