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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 ...
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.
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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.
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.
Listed and linked on this page of the Gesher Galicia Map Room are a wide variety of resources which can be used to locate historical maps related to the former Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, the Duchies of Bukovina, Oświęcim, and Zator, the Grand Duchy of Kraków, and several other neighboring territories which at one time were part of Galicia in the erstwhile empire. Many of the sources ...
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 ...
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The Soviet occupation of Eastern Galicia (along with Volhynia and Western Belorussia to its north) between September 1939 and July 1941 greatly exacerbated the local tensions and dramatically destabilized the already fragile economic, social, and political conditions there. The Soviets tried rapidly to impose their own political and economic ...
