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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 ...
The Gesher Galicia Map Room. An excerpt from the complete lithographed cadastral map of Leżajsk from 1853; click the image to see the full interactive map. At the top of the page, an excerpt from Kornman's beautiful 1898 transport map of Galicia and Bukovina.
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.
- Borders and Districts of Galicia
- Map Resources
- Historic Maps of Galicia
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.
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
Galicia and Bucovina (1861–1864) - Second military survey of the Habsburg Empire.
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Historical layer. Galicia and Bucovina [B IX a 387] - Second military survey of the Habsburg Empire (1861–1864) Layers provided by Arcanum Adatbázis Kft. Data provided by Österreichisches Staatsarchiv.
