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Feb 5, 2018 · 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 ...
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 ...
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.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Maps of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. 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 of the empire.
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 ...
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.
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Mar 15, 2017 · Ethnic groups of the Austro-Hungarian Empire (1910) Below the map are the ethnic groups of Austria-Hungary in 1910, according to Distribution of Races in Austria-Hungary by William R. Shepherd, 1911. It was one of the most ethically diverse nations in human history. The Austro-Hungarian Empire had a population of almost 53 million people who ...
