The Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, also known as Austrian Galicia, was a kingdom within the Austrian Empire, later Cisleithanian part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, established in 1772 as a crownland of the Habsburg monarchy.It encompassed regions that were acquired by the First Partition of Poland.In 1804 it became a crownland of the newly proclaimed Austrian Empire.

This is a collection of records about immigrants coming to New York from Austria, Poland, and Galicia between 1890-1891. Records include the immigrant’s name, date of arrival in New York, ship name and number, roll number of the NARA microfilm, and notes about the immigrant.

Gesher Galicia is a non-profit organization carrying out Jewish genealogical and historical research on Galicia, formerly a province of Austria-Hungary and today divided between southeastern Poland and western Ukraine. The research work includes the indexing of archival vital records and census books, Holocaust-period records, Josephine and ...

Galicia was annexed to Poland in 1918. In 1939, it was divided between the Provisional Government of Warsaw and Ukraine, a division drawn with the modern geographical boundaries of Poland and Ukraine. Galicia reaches north from the Carpathian Mountains across the Sarmatian Plain.

Galicia (Eastern Europe), a historical region in southeastern Poland and western Ukraine The Kingdom of Galicia–Volhynia or Kingdom of Rus, a medieval kingdom; The Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, a crown land of the Austrian Empire and later the Austrian half (Cisleithania) of Austria-Hungary; West Galicia or New Galicia, a short-lived ...

When the Polish Commonwealth was carved up by the three greedy powers, Prussia, Russia, and Austria, the new Austrian rulers reverted to the ancient name and created the two provinces, Galicia and the eastern section, Bukowina, formerly Volhynia. After the First World War when Galicia once more became part of Poland, it was known as Małopolska.

Galicia, Polish Galicja, German Galizien, Russian Galytsiya, 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 principalities of Kiev and …

Galicia, in eastern Central Europe, has traded hands between Poland, Ukraine, the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and other states over the course of the area’s history. After World War II, the historic lands of Galicia were divided between Poland and Ukraine. The records in this database come from what is now L’viv in western Ukraine.

Feb 05, 2018 · In 1795, in the Third Partition of Poland, West Galicia (also called New Galicia), which included the districts of Kraków, Lublin, Chełm, was created and merged with Galicia in 1803. ... but in 1809 they were ceded to the Russian Empire. During the Congress of Vienna (1814–1815), Austria gained back these regions. In 1815, Kraków gained ...

In 1914 Galicia was occupied, briefly re-taken by Austria, until it finally became a part of the new Polish state in 1918. After Poland's annexation by Germany and the Soviet Union in 1939, eastern Galicia became part of Ukraine, and western Galicia was made a part of the Generalgouvernement Warsaw. This division has been maintained to the ...