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Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria. The Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, also known as Austrian Galicia, was a kingdom within the Austrian Empire, later Cisleithanian part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, established in 1772 as a crownland of the Habsburg monarchy. It encompassed regions that were acquired by the First Partition of Poland.
Rechiar or Flavius Rechiarius [1] (after 415 [2] – December 456) was the third Suevic king of Gallaecia, from 448 until his death, and also the first one to be born in Gallaecia. He was one of the most innovative and belligerent of the Suevi monarchs. Hydatius, the contemporary bishop and chronicler from Galicia who is the sole contemporary ...
At its greatest extension the territory of Galicia-Volhynia included later Wallachia/Bessarabia, thus reaching the shores of the Black Sea. During this period (around 1200–1400), each principality was independent of the other for a period.
Fernando Ojea dedicated the map to the then most important aristocrat in the Kingdom of Galicia, Count of Lemos - Pedro Fernandez de Castro e Andrade. The map features the following Descripcion del Reyno de Galizia (A Description of the Kingdom of Galicia) for the Count of Lemos:
The Ruthenian lion ( Ukrainian: Руський лев, romanized : Ruskyi lev, Polish: Lew ruski ), Ukrainian lion, or Galician lion [1] is a golden lion on an azure background. The lion was featured on the historic coat of arms of the Kingdom of Galicia-Volhynia (Ruthenia), the Ruthenian Voivodeship and the Western Ukrainian People's Republic.
Coat of arms of the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria.svg. Size of this PNG preview of this SVG file: 512 × 592 pixels. Other resolutions: 207 × 240 pixels | 415 × 480 pixels | 664 × 768 pixels | 886 × 1,024 pixels | 1,771 × 2,048 pixels. Original file (SVG file, nominally 512 × 592 pixels, file size: 104 KB)
Dec 26, 2022 · Poles made up the Galician nobility, the urban population and, in the west, also the peasantry. In terms of religion, 46% of Galicians were Catholics, 42.5% Greek Catholics, 11% Jews and 0.5% Protestants. The Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria had an area of 78,497 km² in 1914. The capital was Lviv (today Ukrainian Lviv).
