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This section of the Gesher Galicia Map Room presents a wide variety of historical maps which depict Galicia at several levels of scale and context, and across more than a century and a half of evolution. Together, the maps illustrate the changing administrative divisions at and within Galicia's borders; they also chronicle the development of ...
This section of the Gesher Galicia Map Room brings together data from several separate Gesher Galicia research projects into interactive historical maps which combine archival records – both graphical and textual – to help family historians locate their ancestors' houses and businesses during the Austro-Hungarian era in the former Kingdom ...
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Feb 5, 2018 · The Gesher Galicia Map Room, a long-term research project to acquire and publish land and building records in the former Austro-Hungarian province of Galicia, in addition to an extensive collection of cadastral and street maps, has a number of regional Galicia maps.
Among significant collections of Galicia-focused records, the Gesher Galicia Map Room presents historical cadastral maps plus street maps, regional maps, and "special" maps with unusual content. Map-related references and sources are also featured.
This section of the Gesher Galicia Map Room gathers and presents an array of unusual historical maps of Galicia, each of which studies and documents a perspective other than the more typical political, administrative, transport, and communication maps found in the Regional Maps and Street Maps sections. Included here are maps with a scientific ...
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.
This article contains general information about mapping in the Galician region of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and a brief description of how historic maps were assembled and formatted for viewing in the Gesher Galicia Map Room. At the end of this article, a number of useful references for more information are listed.
