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  2. This digital "Map Room" has been a key project of Gesher Galicia for more than a decade; the online collection now includes more than 250 interactive historical maps which can be panned and zoomed in internet browsers to examine their beauty and useful features. The maps are of several types spanning tremendous scale: from images of the entire ...

    • Maps of The Partitions of Poland
    • Maps of The Austro-Hungarian Empire
    • Maps of Galician Kreise
    • Maps of Interwar Poland
    • Maps of The Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic

    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. The Third Partition of Poland in 1795 added more land to Galicia, but for f...

    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 o...

    Within the Kingdom of Galicia, the territory was divided into administrative units called "kreise" ("circles", in German). The kreise were roughly comparable in size and population to small provinces or states, or large districts in other countries and at other times. Galician kreis boundaries shifted over the decades, as the collections of kreis m...

    At the end of World War I, the Kingdom of Galicia was absorbed mostly intact into the newly-formed Second Polish Republic, and it would remain under Polish rule until the invasion of Poland by Germany and the Soviet Union which triggered World War II.

    At the start of World War II, a large part of southeastern Poland was invaded and occupied by the Soviet Union in September 1939; formal annexation of the land of former eastern Galicia and adjacent territories was decreed at Soviet, Ukrainian SSR, and regional levels in December 1939. New district (raion) boundaries were formally defined within si...

  3. The historical maps are part of Gesher Galicia's long-term Map Room project to digitize and assemble high-scale Austrian imperial cadastral maps of Galician places relevant to Jewish and other family historians. For more information about Galician cadastral maps, see the Reference section in the Map Room and browse the hundreds of assembled ...

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  4. Special Maps – The Gesher Galicia Map Room. An 1873 map of the geological foundation of Galicia by Karol Langie for a regional Encyclopedia of Agriculture. At the top of the page, an excerpt from a map of World War I battle lines in Galicia and Volhynia in the summer of 1915. This section of the Gesher Galicia Map Room gathers and presents an ...

  5. Gesher Galicia is a non-profit organization dedicated to helping people research their Jewish family roots in the former Austro-Hungarian Empire province of Galicia, which is today southeastern Poland and southwestern Ukraine. Our organization's primary focus is researching Jewish roots in Galicia, but the diverse community records in our databases contain names that span all the ethnic and ...

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  6. The street maps and general plans in the Gesher Galicia Map Room are listed and linked below alphabetically by city, and then for each city the maps are listed chronologically. Some additional city street maps with unusual content are included in the Special Maps section of the Map Room. Bielsko-Biała.

  7. Maps Room. This digital Map Room is a spin-off of the Gesher Galicia Cadastral Map and Land Owner Records Project, a long-term research project to acquire and publish land and building records in the former Austro-Hungarian province of Galicia, now Poland and Ukraine. Find out more

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