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In the Gesher Galicia Map Room collection, the earliest cadastral maps of Galicia from the stabile cadastre are based on surveys between 1826-1828. Significant features of the new stabile cadastre included: detailed official manuals of instruction guided all aspects of the survey and mapping work; experts and inspectors reviewed each stage of ...
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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 of the Aus...
The Polish digital library Polonahas a wonderful collection of high-resolution zoomable maps of Galicia. The website Topographic Maps of Eastern Europe, which offers a collection of small and large scale historical maps of the lands of the former Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Pale of Jewish Settlement in late Tsarist Russia, has a page dev...
Below is a collection of different types of historic maps of Galicia spanning from 1775 (the oldest map of Galicia I found, made just a few years after the creation of the crownland) through 1918, the year Galicia ceased to exist as administrative unit.
A full-color map of Austria-Hungary ca. 1897 from an English-language atlas of the world produced by Rand McNally and Company of Chicago. Individual crownlands are separately colored and labeled; Galicia (in pink) is at the northeastern boundary of the Habsburg empire. Most city names are given in their Polish versions; Lemberg and Cracow are ...
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 ...
Sep 11, 2024 · Austria-Hungary. The Austro-Hungarian Empire, also known as Austria-Hungary, Dual Monarchy or k.u.k. Monarchy or Dual State, was a dual-monarchic union state in Central Europe from 1867 to 1918, dissolved at the end of World War I. Short name. Austria-Hungary.
Download the Hi Res Map and view the Gazetteer. Austria and Western Hungary South 1908 From Harmsworth Atlas and Gazetteer, London, 1909, Scale: 1:2,800,000 Download the Hi Res Map and view the Gazetteer. Austria Hungary 1887 From the Reference Atlas of the World, by John Bartholomew (London: J. Walker & Co., 1887) Download a High Resolution Map
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Oct 8, 2024 · Accessed 24 October 2024. 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. During the Middle Ages, eastern Galicia, situated between Hungary, Poland, and the western.
