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	Galicia \| Austrian Empire
		The Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria was the north-easternmost province in the Habsburg Empire.
		Galicia enjoyed the briefest of liberations during the Napoleonic era, but after Waterloo and the Congress of Vienna, the prospect of independence was snuffed out again.
		Galicia became an autonomous kingdom, and Polish and Ruthenian schools and newspapers mushroomed across the region.
	www.lviv-life.com /lviv/galicia (663 words)

	hrabiowie
		Kingdom of Prussia: 8/19 Sept. 1786 for Franciszek Ksawery Działyński.
		Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria: 7/19 Oct. 1803 for Ignacy and Cyprian Komorowski.
		Kingdom of Poland: 1655 for Andrzej Samuel Stadnicki.
	www.wawrzak.org /hrabiowie.htm (6281 words)

	History of Galicia
		Galicia was formerly a crown land of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy (from 1772 until 1918) and before 1370 it was an independent and powerful medieval Ruthenian (Ukrainian) Kingdom with capital in Halych which was built by Prince Volodymyrko in 1140.
		Ancient Galicia was populated by the Slavic tribes of Dulibes(Duliby/Duleby) and White Croatians (White Croats / Bili Khorvaty), Ulyches (Ulychi), Tyverians (Tivertsi/Tivertsy), Buzhanians with Derevlians (Derevlyany) and Vohlynians (Volyniany) on the north.
		Galicia was devasted by Khmelnytsky's Cossack Troops and Tatars.
	www.torugg.org /History/history_of_galicia.html (2708 words)

	GALICIA GUIDE \| Beaches & Rias Index \| Spain
		The coast of Galicia is peppered with bays and inlets which are known locally as "rias".
		Galicia has more linear coastline than any other autonomous region in Spain and this is demonstrated by the number of ports and towns lining the coast and associated with the sea.
		Throughout Spain, Galicia is known as the region of a thousand rivers and most of those rivers vent into estuaries that feed into the sea through the many "rias" or bays.
	www.galiciaguide.com /Beaches-index.html (639 words)

	Nordic Culture > Vikings in Galicia - Scandinavica.com
		Galicia was reputedly the first kingdom of western Europe to be established after the fall of the Roman Empire in AD 409.
		The Kingdom of Galicia was historically a prosperous and strategic land for trading and navigation between the north Atlantic and the Mediterranean sea.
		The Kingdom of Galicia was a major centre of Christian pilgrimage during the Middle Ages as it was believed that the remains of the apostle St James were buried in the city of Sant-Iago de Compostela.
	www.scandinavica.com /culture/history/galicia.htm (1154 words)

	Kingdom of Galicia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Suebi kingdom of Gallaecia should not be mistaken for the later medieval kingdom of Galicia, which existed (off and on) from 910 to 1070.
		This kingdom continued to expand until the large "Desert of the Douro," a vast no-man's land created by Alfonso in the region between his kingdom and the Douro to keep out ivaders, was repopulated (see Repoblación).
		The kingdom was annexed by Alfonso VI of Castile.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kingdom_of_Galicia (1198 words)

	Galicia (Central Europe) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In 1772, Galicia was the largest part of the area annexed by Austria in the First Partition of Poland.
		Lviv (Lemberg) served as 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 mostly Ukrainian, or "Ruthenian", as they were known at the time.
		Conflicts in Galicia and Volhynia between Poles and Ukrainians also intensified during that time, with conflicts between the Polish Home Army and the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UIA) and Soviet partisans, and the massacres of Poles in Volhynia, and, to a lesser extent, in Galicia, and revenge attacks on Ukrainians.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Galicia_(Central_Europe) (4810 words)

	A Celebration of Celts
		Galicia is green, hilly and rainy, most reminiscent of the British Isles.
		Galicia is fresh and verdant, it has gushing rivers and a coastline more reminiscent of Scotland than Spain.
		When Heraldry became widespread through Western Europe, the ancient kingdom of Galicia was then already part of the Leonese monarchy, and its kings used to use quite simply the talking lion.
	www.celebrationofcelts.com /galicia.html (693 words)

	Kingdoms of Iberia - Galicia
		Formerly the Barbarian Suevi kingdom before it was conquered by the Visigoths, Galicia eventually became part of the Kingdom of Leon.
		In 910 it became a sub-kingdom of Leon, to be ruled by Leon's heir to the throne.
		Ferdinand I's Kingdom of Castille is divided between his three sons: Sancho II receives Castille, Alfonso VI, León, and Galicia is once again divided from León for García.
	www.kessler-web.co.uk /History/KingListsEurope/IberiaGalicia.htm (138 words)

	Galizien
		The flag of the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria showed initially two stripes in blue and red, the colours of the coat of arms of the country.
		The official name of the crown land was "Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria with the Grand Duchy of Krakau and the Duchies of Auschwitz and Zator".
		1220 · conquest of Galicia by the Rus of Novgorod
	www.flaggenlexikon.de /foestgal.htm (1502 words)

	The Germans from Galicia
		Galicia was a crown land of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy until 1918.
		After the Third Partition, Galicia was greatly expanded between 1795 and 1809 as a consequence of the Napoleonic Wars, and in 1846 Cracow was added.
		In 1914 Galicia was occupied, briefly re-taken by Austria, until it finally became a part of the new Polish state in 1918.
	www.ualberta.ca /~german/PAA/Galicians.htm (803 words)

	Stetl: A.Lichtblau & M.John - Lemberg and Czernowitz (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Galicia and Bukovina were strategically important border provinces of the Hapsburg Empire, constituting its extreme eastern frontier abutting the realm of the Russian czar, Prussia (subsequently the Deutsche Reich) and later as an internal border dividing the Cisleithanian (Austrian) and Transleithanian (Hungarian) halves of the empire.
		Galicia became part of the Habsburg-Monarchy in 1772 as a result of the partition of Poland, and in 1775 Vienna could add the former Turkish-ruled region of Bukovina to the new province — the "Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria" as it was officially called.
		Galicia came under Soviet rule in 1939 and was taken by the Germans in 1941 (Generalgouvernement, District of Galicia).
	www.ibiblio.org /yiddish/Tshernovits/Lichtblau/CAPETOWN-0.html (411 words)

	Historical references
		The Romans began their invasion of Galicia in 138 B.C. and in 60 B.C. Julius Caesar disembarked in Coruña (Brigantium), but it wasn't until the time of Octavius Augustus in 22 B.C. that the domination of the country was completed, marking the beginning of Roman control that lasted four centuries.
		During the Roman domination of the Iberian peninsula, Gallaecia was one of the provinces of Hispania, that comprised the territories of Galicia -from which its name stems- part of Leon and Asturias and North of Portugal.
		Although the kingdom of Galicia persisted as a historical entity for over 10 centuries, it was an independent kingdom only during some periods.
	www.cdtradition.net /historical-references-050402.php (1013 words)

	Galicia_(Spain) - The real meaning from Timesharetalk wikipedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Galicia (sometimes called Galiza in Galician) is a nation that becomes an Spanish [autonomous community] in 1978, placed in the northwest of Iberian Peninsula.It limits with Portugal to the South and the communities of Castile-Leon and Asturias to the East.
		Galicia was allotted to Garcia II of Galicia.
		Geographically, an important feature of Galicia is the presence of many fjord-like indentations on the coast, estuaries that were drowned with rising sea levels after the ice age.
	www.timesharetalk.co.uk /wiki.asp?k=Galicia_(Spain) (2492 words)

	Pazo de Marinan
		Like most "Pazos" found in the countryside with its beautiful construction is highlighted by its precious botanical gardens that permits one to have the same wonderful feeling that the royalty of the past were priviliged to have because of the ornamental garden, the horticultural garden the fruit trees and the forest that are present.
		The "Parterre de boj" (geometric design of the central garden) of the "Pazo de Marinan" is a masterpiece and only one other garden in Galicia parallels it, at least in its complexity for maintenance which is the unique garden for the cloistered monastery of San Lorenzo located in the town of Santiago de Compostela.
		Rmember that all eucalypyus trees of thet era were seeds brought to Galicia by the monk Rosendo Salvado the archbishop of the New Nursery in Australia, brought from that faraway continent ans distributed to his friends that were the proprietors of the galician pazos to be planted and decorative exotic trees.
	camelias.net /pazos/marinan/pmarineng_1.html (979 words)

	Celtia.info > Country > Galicia
		Executive branch: Xunta de Galicia, the Galician government, is composed by a President (Presidente) and a Cabinet of Ministers (Conselleiros) appointed by the President.
		Believing it was the flag of Galicia, it was used first by Galician emigrants and adopted later in the motherland.
		Galicia enters under the influence of Castile after the succession wars of 1366-1387 and 1472.
	www.celtia.info /country/galicia (1274 words)

	Galicia (Ukraine and Poland)
		From 1815, the former Polish possessions of Austria were known as the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria.
		Polish word for Galicia is Galicja, not Halicz, which refers to a small town, a capital of a Ruthenian Duchy in early Middle Ages.
		Galicia in its original meaning was an Austrian Crownland, which ultimately is divided between Poland and Ukraine.
	www.crwflags.com /fotw/flags/ua-gal.html (866 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)

	Spain - The Galicians
		Unlike the Basque and the Catalan regions, which were rich, urbanized, and industrialized, Galicia remained relatively poor, agricultural and dominated by rural and village society, as industry had yet to make its appearance there on a large scale.
		There had indeed been a king of Galicia who was crowned in 1111; the kingdom was partitioned some years later, however, leaving the northern half hemmed in and isolated while the southern portion expanded southward in the wake of the Moors' withdrawal.
		Despite Galicia's contemporary nationalist movement, which dates from 1931, and the activities of the region's autonomous government, in power since 1981, Galician nationalism continued to be almost silent in comparison with the louder demands of Basques and Catalans in the late 1980s.
	countrystudies.us /spain/38.htm (680 words)

	Flag of the Swabian Kings of Gallaecia
		In February 15th 1669 the General Council of the Kingdom of Galicia declared that "(...) from then onwards it was decided to erase the green dragon and the red lion (arms of the Swabian kings who ruled this country at the time) and bring onto the golden field of the arms the consecrated wafer (...)".
		This document describing the flag of the Swabian kings of Galicia was was brought back to the public eye in 1927 by historian Pérez Constanti in his book "Notas Viejas Galicianas" (Ancient texts from Galicia).
		That kingdom was known in Europe with the names of Galliciense Regnum (Kingdom of Gallaecia) or Regnum Suevorum (Kingdom of the Swabians).
	www.galicianflag.com /gallaecia.htm (891 words)

	Brief History of the City of Lviv
		Lviv was founded as a fort in the mid-13th century by Prince Danylo Halitski of Galicia, a former principality of Kyivan Rus.
		Galicia, with Lviv as its chief city, has kept its identity despite many boundary changes and centuries of rule by outside powers.
		Galicia was taken over by Poland in the 14th century.
	www.history.ucsb.edu /projects/holocaust/Resources/history_of_lviv.htm (1753 words)

	Viceroyalty of New Spain (1521-1821) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		New Galicia was not a Viceroyaly, it was named "Kingdom of New Galicia", though it was not governed by a King but by a "governor" who was at the same time president of the Royal Audence of Guadalajara.
		Kingdom of New Galicia, founded about 1532, was a constituent territory of the Viceroyalty of New Spain gaining broad domestic autonomy in 1574, excepting a short period from 1588 to 1591; the Viceroy's authority just might intervene in military and fiscal matters.
		Kingdom of New Galicia desappeared in 1786 to become the Intendencia of Guadalajara; this allowed the central government to intervener broadly in internal matters.
	www.netlinkit.dk /fotw/flags/mx_nes.html (445 words)

	Galicia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		In the 5th century AD invasions, Galicia fell to the Suevi contrary to other large parts of the Iberian Peninsula, held by the Visigoths, in 411, who formed there the Kingdom of Galicia.
		In 1072 it was forcibly reannexed by Garcia's brother Alphonso VI of Castile and from that time Galicia remained part of the kingdom of Castile and Leon, although under several degrees of self-government.
		Galician nationalist and federalist movements arose in the nineteenth century, and after the Spanish Republic was declared in 1931, Galicia approved in referendum an Autonomy Statute for becoming as an autonomous region.
	home.comcast.net /~desilva22/galicia.htm (381 words)

	Ukraine after 1240
		King Danylo was the king of the Kingdom of Galicia and the first king in the Ukrainian history.
		Lviv was founded as a fort in the mid-13th century by Prince Danylo Halytsky of Galicia, a former principality of Kyivan Rus.
		Austria changed the name of Lviv to Lemberg, and made it the capital of the Kingdom of Galicia and contributed parks, cobble stone streets, and an opera house.
	www.personal.psu.edu /rua114/step2.htm (687 words)

	When oil became black gold
		It was the Kingdom of Galicia back then, a part of the sprawling Austro-Hungarian Empire.
		She was drawn to the subject not out of a fascination with oil or economics, but through an interest in Austria-Hungary - the multinational state with its capital in Vienna, whose writers, artists, and scientists played a vital role in giving birth to the modern era.
		Her book, "Oil Empire: Visions of Prosperity in Austrian Galicia" (Harvard University Press, 2005), tells a sad tale, one to which those who extol the free market economy as a cure-all for society's ills would do well to pay attention, although Frank emphasizes that the book is not policy-oriented.
	www.researchmatters.harvard.edu /story.php?article_id=986 (430 words)

	Jewries in Galicia and Bukovina, in Lemberg and Czernowitz.
		Galicia and Bukovina were strategically important border provinces of the Hapsburg Empire, constituting its extreme eastern frontier abutting the realm of the Russian czar as well as Prussia (subsequently the Deutsche Reich), and later as an internal border dividing the Cisleithanian (Austrian) and Transleithanian (Hungarian) halves of the empire.
		As to their motives, it may be assumed that the cultural element played a role alongside many other motives and there is, in fact, good reason to suspect that other migrational movements, such as the one to the USA and to New York in particular, were more strongly determined by purely economic motives.
		Bukovina (along with Galicia and Dalmatia) was among the most backward regions of the Austrian half of the Empire; that is to say, they were only in the initial stage of the modernization process.
	www.sbg.ac.at /ges/people/lichtblau/cape.html (9641 words)

	Asturias, Galicia and León
		When the Visigothic kingdom collapsed as a result of the Moors invasion 711 was the province of Asturias on Spain's northern coast the only part that was not conquered.
		The Galician kingdom were also later ruled by their own kings for short periods until it was permanently united with León 1126.
		At first was León the most important kingdom in Spain but centre of power shifted with time to Castile.
	www.tacitus.nu /historical-atlas/regents/iberian/leon.htm (194 words)

	Steinhaus biography
		The town of his birth, Jaslo, was in Galicia, about half way between Kraków and Lvov (although a bit nearer Kraków than Lvov).
		Galicia was attached to Austria in the 1772 partition of Poland.
		However, by the time Steinhaus was born in Jaslo, Austria had named the region the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria and given it a large degree of administrative autonomy.
	www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk /Biographies/Steinhaus.html (1748 words)

	RIBADAVIA.com - Council of Ribadavia
		It was in Christian times, mainly from the 11th century onwards, when Ribadavia´s prestige and importance began to increase, and, according to tradition, between 1065 and 1071 it was appointed the capital of the Kingdom of Galicia by King García, and in 1164 the town was awarded the Royal Charter by King Fernando II.
		The Ribeiro label was revered throughout Europe as one of the best and this has been recognised by Cervantes in his book “El Licenciado Vidriera”, and in Molina´s “Description of the Kingdom of Galicia”, when he describes Ribadavia as the “Mother of wine”.
		It was the golden age for the Ribeiro, and today in almost all the towns of the region and in many cities in Galicia, impressive historic houses and buildings still stand as a testimony to the prosperity and wealth that the sale of the wine brought to the region.
	www.ribadavia.com /historia_e.htm (895 words)

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