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	Galicia (Central Europe) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria with the Duchies of Auschwitz and Zator.
		L'viv—Lemberg—served as the capital of Austrian Galicia, which was dominated by the Polish aristocracy, despite the fact that the population of the eastern half of the province was in the majority Ruthenian or Ukrainian with large minorities of Jews and Poles.
		In 1918, Western Galicia became a part of the restored Republic of Poland, while the local Ukrainian population briefly declared the independence of Eastern Galicia as the "Western Ukrainian Republic".
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Galicia_(Central_Europe) (2370 words)

	Talk:Galicia (Spain) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Research shows that only 4_5% of today's young town-dwellers claim Galician as their mother tongue, although virtually all of them understand it and over 90% can speak it." from Euromosaic The book I have for learning Galego, Galego para vos, also gives statistics on use and they don't show Galego to be the dominant language.
		Galicia now links to this article, and is presumed to refer to the Spanish region; Galicia (Eastern Europe) links to the article on the Eastern European region.
		I didn't do a full disambiguation because MOST references are to the Spanish Galicia: if anyone wants to do a full disambiguation it would require moving this article to Galicia (Spain), creating a disambiguation page here and changing the current Galicia links to Galicia (Spain) links.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Talk:Galicia_(Spain) (1018 words)

	Galicia (Central Europe) -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Today, Galicia is an historical region split between (A republic in central Europe; the invasion of Poland by Germany in 1939 started World War II) Poland and (A republic in southeastern Europe; formerly a European soviet; the center of the original Russian state which came into existence in the ninth century) Ukraine.
		From 1868 Galicia was an autonomous province of (A geographical area in central and eastern Europe; broken into separate countries at the end of World War I) Austria-Hungary with Polish as an official language.
		It was subject to the (A mountainous republic in central Europe; under the Habsburgs (1278-1918) Austria maintained control of the Holy Roman Empire and was a leader in European politics until the 19th century) Austrian part of the Dual Monarchy.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/g/ga/galicia_(central_europe)1.htm (1832 words)

	Galicia (Central Europe) - InfoSearchPoint.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Galicia comprised an autonomous principality from 1087 to 1253, and a vassal kingdom of the Mongol Golden Horde from 1253 to 1340, when King Casimir III of Poland annexed it to his realm.
		Lemberg served as the capital of Austrian Galicia, which was wholly dominated by the Polish aristocracy, despite the fact that the population of the eastern half of the province consisted of East Slavs (Ruthenes or Ukrainians [distinguished in their religion from Ukrainians from Ukraine]), Jews and Poles.
		From 1868, Galicia was an autonomus province of Austria-Hungary with Polish as an offical language.
	www.infosearchpoint.com /display/Galicia_(Eastern_Europe) (469 words)

	Encyclopedia: Galicia (Eastern Europe) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The ancient but long-disused name "Galicia" was revived by the Austro-Hungarian monarchy to recall its former inhabitants, the eastern Gauls, who also have left their names imprinted on the landscape in Anatolian Galatia and in the Romanian county Galaţi.
		According to historians, the local name was extended to the Romanian/Moldavian city of Galaţi in the 13th or 14th century, when the state of Halych-Volynia extended from the region of Halychyna proper, over Moldavia, up to the Black Sea.
		In 1888 Galicia had 785 500 km² of area and was populated by ca.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Galicia-(Eastern-Europe) (1317 words)

	Galicia -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		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.
		It is roughly coextensive with the former kingdom of Galicia and borders the Atlantic Ocean on the west and north and the country of...
		In 1199 it was annexed to its eastern neighbor, the principality of...
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9035863?tocId=9035863 (700 words)

	ipedia.com: Galicia (Central Europe) Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Galicia (Polish: Galicja, Ukrainian: Галичина (Halychyna), Romanian: Galiţia) is the name of a region of Central Europe.
		3.2 Population of the Eastern Galicia in 1931
		From 1868, Galicia was an autonomus province of Austria-Hungary with Polish as an official language.
	www.ipedia.com /galicia__central_europe_.html (816 words)

	Central Europe - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Central Europe is the region of Europe between Eastern Europe and Western Europe.
		Following World War II, large parts of Europe that were western in culture and history became part of the Eastern bloc, which effectively neutralized the concept of Central Europe.
		Following the fall of the Iron Curtain and the end of the Cold War, this distinction has again come into use, often to cover those countries that had been Soviet satellites but are now members of NATO and the European Union, reflecting remaining differences between countries that were East and West of the Iron Curtain.
	www.hackettstown.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Central_Europe (863 words)

	Talk:Galicia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Galicia (disambiguation) is not needed because Galicia is already the disambiguation page.
		I'd be tempted to switch the two (with the actual disambig at Galicia (disambiguation), for the reasons given here.
		In Galicia (Spain) the name comes from the roman province of Gallaecia, from the same root as "Gaul" or "Gauloises": it is a name given by the roman historians in several places where "gaelic" tribes were found.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Talk:Galicia (288 words)

	Galicia Map
		Galicia (Polish Galicja) is a historic region of eastern Europe (in present-day Poland and Ukraine).
		When Poland was first partitioned in 1772, eastern Galicia, together with the territory to the west, between the San and the Vistula, was attached to Austria; and in 1795 further lands, both west and east of the Vistula, passed also to Austria.
		Bukovina (in present-day Romania and Ukraine) is an eastern European territory consisting of a segment of the northeastern Carpathian Mountains and the adjoining plain.
	www.rollintl.com /roll/galicia.htm (852 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Republic of Poland, a country in Central Europe, lies between Germany to the west, the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south, Ukraine and Belarus to the east, and Lithuania and Russia (in the form of the Kaliningrad Oblast exclave) to its north, as well as the Baltic Sea.
		Later in the 19th century, Austrian-ruled Galicia (Eastern Europe)] became the Polish oasis of freedom.
		The non-Catholic 5% of the population consists of Eastern Orthodox and Protestant religious minorities.
	www.online-encyclopedia.info /encyclopedia/p/po/poland.html (1540 words)

	Central and Eastern Europe History - 19th and 20th centuries
		New hopes arose among the subdued nations of Eastern Europe, who hoped that the defeat of the great empires would provide the means for their freedom and independence.
		Unfortunately, while Europe has been freed from German Nazi tyranny with the loss of more than 25 million civilian lives, including 6 million Jews and 3 million Poles, the Yalta Treaty (Feb 1945) between Stalin, Churchill and Roosevelt gave the Soviets hegemony over eastern Europe and the division of Germany into East and West.
		Meanwhile, all the countries of Eastern Europe remained firmly in the hands of communist governments strictly controlled by the Soviet Union.
	www.biega.com /history20.html (1581 words)

	Aquaculture Development Trends in Europe
		Europe is a substantial importer of live exotic fish species, both freshwater and marine, many of which are of tropical origin.
		In Europe, recreational fisheries and tourism have increasing importance within the uses of water bodies such as lakes, reservoirs and rivers, and aquaculture has the potential to be an important service-provider to these purposes.
		Within Europe, the Federation of European Aquaculture Producers (FEAP) unites the national aquaculture associations and is one of the interlocutors nominated to the EC Commission’s Advisory Committee on Fisheries and Aquaculture.
	www.fao.org /DOCREP/003/AB412E/ab412e24.htm (10840 words)

	Heinrich Schenker - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Schenker was born in Wisniowczyki in Galicia in Poland.
		He moved to Vienna where he studied music under Anton Bruckner and became known as a pianist, accompanying lieder singers and playing chamber music.
		While his theories have been increasingly challenged since mid-century for their rigidity and organicist ideology, the wider analytical tradition that they inspired has remained central to the study of tonal music.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Heinrich_Schenker (347 words)

	Galicia (Central Europe) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Today, Galicia is an historical region split between Poland and Ukraine.
		Some historians believe it is of Celtic origin, and related to many similar place names found across Europe, such as Galaţi in Romania, Gaul (France), Galicia in Spain, and Wales in Britain.
		Their efforts were rewarded by papal acclamation of the prince of Halich-Volynia as the "King of Rus'", an era which came to an end around 1340-1349, when King Casimir III of Poland conquered the region.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/G/Galicia-(Central-Europe).htm (2142 words)

	Eastern Europe FAQ (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		There are now 30 microfilm cameras operating in Eastern Europe, but it will be many years before a substantial number of Jewish records are microfilmed and available.
		Poland (I: Lodz region, 1976; II: Eastern Galicia, 1980; III: Western Galicia and Silesia, 1984; IV: Warsaw region, 1989; V: Volhynia and Polesie, 1990; VI: Poznan, Pomerania and Danzig, 1999; VII: Kielce and Lublin, 1999).
		The eastern 2/3rds became part of the Belorussian SSR in 1939, Białystok area remained in Poland.
	www.jewishgen.org /infofiles/eefaq.html (5241 words)

	FORWARD : Arts & Letters (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		One might rephrase the second question by asking whether gallegos, the Spanish word for the inhabitants of Galicia in Spain, are related to galitzianers, the Yiddish word for the inhabitants of Galicia in Eastern Europe.
		The region of Spain called Galicia, which occupies the northwestern corner of the Iberian Peninsula between Portugal and the Bay of Biscay, gets its name from Callecia, given it by the ancient Romans because it was inhabited by the Celts.
		Eastern European Galicia, on the other hand, the name of an area that today corresponds to much of southern Poland and western Ukraine, is a different story, one rich in Jewish history and associations.
	www.forward.com /issues/2001/01.07.06/arts4.html (806 words)

	Avotaynu Maps for Jewish Genealogy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Drawn by the cartographer G. Peltier, this unusual map was first published as a supplement to the French newsmagazine L'Illustration in 1914 to illustrate the eastern theatre of war.
		This 1860 map by Keith Johnston shows Russia from the Gulf of Riga east to the Oka and Don Rivers region and south to the Galicia, Bessarabia and the Black Sea areas.
		We have located some excellent, indexed maps of the countries of Central and Eastern Europe published by Ravenstein Verlag.
	www.avotaynu.com /maps.htm (1049 words)

	World War 2 - Timelines - War in Europe - Eastern Europe - 1944
		Hitler lectures all his eastern front army commanders on National Socialism as the Russians cut off 60,000 men in Korsun Pocket, 100 miles to the southeast of Kiev.
		The Russians announce the capture of Vilna and continue their advance into eastern Galicia.
		They receive no support from Soviet forces who are already on the eastern bank of the Vistula opposite the city.
	www.worldwar-2.net /timelines/war-in-europe/eastern-europe/eastern-europe-index-1944.htm (2739 words)

	Religion in Eastern Europe
		It seeks to open parishes in eastern oblasts, especially in the areas densely populated by emigrants from Galicia.
		In actively pursuing its ‘Eastern policy,’ the Church’s leadership couches this work in certain cautious terms to disarm the Orthodox.
		The activity of Polish Catholic priest‑missionaries and monks that spread the Latin rite on Ukrainian soil elicits particular alarm in Greek‑Catholic lay organizations (whose alarm is silently shared by the official church institutions).
	www.georgefox.edu /academics/undergrad/departments/soc-swk/ree/kolodniy_tfi_02.html (2731 words)

	Harvard University Press/Cultures and Nations of Central and Eastern Europe
		Written in honor of one of the foremost observers of nationalism and culture in Central and Eastern Europe, this volume brings together 35 eminent scholars from the United States, Canada, Ukraine, and Poland.
		Topics range from the rise of Ukrainian national consciousness in Galicia, to nationalism in contemporary Serbia; from the rise of private property in the Russia of Catherine II, to contemporary Russian attitudes toward Ukrainian nation building.
		Other essays explore the impact of theories of nationalism on the discipline of history and critique Ernest Gellner's "constructivist" theory of the nation.
	www.hup.harvard.edu /catalog/GITCUL.html (224 words)

	Willow Bend Books - Genealogy Reference Material (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Drawn by cartographer G. Peltier, this map was first published as a supplement to the French newsmagazine LIllustration in 1916 to map areas affected by World War I. It shows southeastern Europe from Galacia south to northern Greece and the area from Tarnow and Belgrade east to the Black Sea.
		Drawn by the cartographer G. Peltier, this map was first published as a supplement to the French newsmagazine LIllustration in 1915 to map the eastern theatre during World War I. It shows East Prussia, western Russia, Poland, and much of the Astro-Hungarian Empire, including Galicia, Bukovina and Tr...
		Entitled Bowless European Navigators Vade-Mecum or New Pocket Chart of the Sea Coast of Europe, and the Straits..." and with an inset map of the eastern Mediterranean and the Holy Land, this 1779 map, reminiscent of earlier Renaissance navigators charts, identifies coastal ports and settlements in v...
	www.willowbend.net /search.asp?SearchState=Europe (710 words)

	portland imc - 2004.06.05 - Eastern Europe Remembers....
		Leaders, former dissidents and ordinary citizens across eastern Europe expressed gratitude to Ronald Reagan for helping to end decades of "evil empire" communism and Cold War-era oppression.
		As the world paused to remember the sacrifices of Allied troops 60 years ago on D-Day, leaders such as former Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orban reflected on Reagan's influence in bringing democracy to those starved for it behind the Iron Curtain.
		Reagan, along with Pope John Paul II, was one of the architects who dismantled communism in eastern Europe and stopped the expansion of the Soviet Union," said Ivo Samson, an analyst with the Slovak Foreign Policy Association.
	portland.indymedia.org /en/2004/06/290101.shtml (673 words)

	THE STRUGGLE FOR PERSONAL AND COLLECTIVE IDENTITY
		The Rusyns are Eastern Slavs who have lived historically in Galicia (north of the Carpathian mountains), often a part of Poland, and Subcarpathia (south of the Carpathian mountains), often a part of Hungary.
		Finally, the Rusyns themselves, who were almost universally peasants in Europe and laborers in America, began to seek self and collective identity as they slowly moved u p into better paying jobs, private enterprise, the professions, and politics, and began to develop their own intelligentsia.
		The Armenians produced a number of kingdoms and one empire but, due to their exposed position on the crossroads of Europe and Asia, they experienced a long series of major invasions and occupations which caused many Armenians to fee to other countries for security, thus establishing a diaspora that stretches around the world.
	www.umd.umich.edu /dept/armenian/papazian/rusyn.html (1718 words)

	The Ultimate National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy - American History Information Guide and Reference
		NaUKMA in its current form was established in 1992 shortly after Ukraine gained its independence upon the 1991 dissolution of the Soviet Union.
		However, the historic predecessor of the NaUKMA, the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy (Kiev-Mogila Academy), was one of the oldest and the most distinguished academic and theological schools in Eastern Europe.
		It was established in 1632 by Peter Mogila (Petro Mohyla), a Metropolitan of Kiev and Galicia.
	www.historymania.com /american_history/Kyiv_Mohyla_Academy (122 words)

	Religion in Eastern Europe
		In Western Europe, models often far removed from the American one have proved successful, i.e., the principle of freedom of conscience is protected concurrently with the functioning of state churches or various degrees of state Îinterferenceâ in church affairs.
		The religious conflict that independent Ukraine inherited from the former Soviet Union was inflamed by the active participation of the state apparatus at the oblast and republic levels.
		Echoes of his campaign rhetoric were also apparent in the text of his inaugural address, in which Kuchma promised to fight for the granting of official status to the Russian language and employed Russian, especially Eurasian, political terminology to identify the strategic position and foreign‑policy interests of Ukraine.
	www.georgefox.edu /academics/undergrad/departments/soc-swk/ree/plokhy.html (4412 words)

	Henry Bogdan - From Warsaw To Sofia
		The peoples in eastern Europe were trying to reorganize as national states with varying degrees of success.
		It was obvious that the division of eastern Prussia and the rest of Germany by the corridor presented ample invitation for incidents and conflicts.
		Its territory included Posnania, the "Polish corridor" and Upper Silesia taken from Germany, Galicia which had been under Austrian rule since the end of the 18th century, the former Congress Kingdom governed by Russia since 1815 along with a few more districts taken from the USSR in 1921.
	www.hungarian-history.hu /lib/bogdan/bogdan16.htm (3425 words)

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