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Feb 5, 2018 · General Post and Road Map of Galicia and Lodomeria with Auschwitz, Zator and Krakow as well as the Crownland Bukovina. This map contains a table of population statistics from the 1890 census. Railways are clearly marked.
This page of the Gesher Galicia Map Room provides a historical and statistical overview of the cadastral survey and mapping initiative of the Habsburg Monarchy, with special focus on the former Kingdom of Galicia, a territory which now straddles the border between southeastern Poland and western Ukraine. The phenomenal imperial project is ...
Oct 8, 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
This page of the Gesher Galicia Map Room organizes and presents written references regarding historical maps and the sciences of surveying and cartography applicable to Galicia in the past and the present, as well as the use of old maps of Galicia (its borders, landscapes, and settlements) as tools for historical research on social, family ...
This cultural database pulls from the largest Hungarian national archives and libraries including a maps and plans section presenting more than 100,000 items; featured are historical maps of Austria-Hungary including Galicia, and WWI battle maps.
Jul 16, 2018 · The initiator of the first German colonization campaign in Galicia was Maria Theresa Habsburg, who issued a decree in 1774 that encouraged well-to-do Protestant craftsmen, merchants, and experts of an advanced level to settle in eastern Galicia.
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Jun 3, 2020 · We describe and share reconstructed data of the historical railway network of Galicia and Austrian Silesia – two regions of the Habsburg Empire that covered more than 80 000 km 2 that are currently divided among Czechia, Poland and Ukraine.