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  GALICIA - LoveToKnow Article on GALICIA   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Galicia (or Halicz) took its rise, along with the neighboring principality of Lodomeria (or Vladimir), in the course of the iath centurythe seat of the ruling dynasty being Halicz or Halitch.
GALICIA (the ancient Gallaecia or Callaecia, Ka?~Xaud,a or KaXaudct), a captaincy-general, and formerly a kingdom, countship and province, in the north-western angle of Spain; bounded on the N. by the Bay of Biscay, E. by Leon and Asturias, S. by Portugal, and W. by the Atlantic Ocean.
Galicia is traversed by mountain ranges, sometimes regarded as a continuation of the Cantabrian chain; and its surface is further broken in the ~east by the westernmost ridges of that system, which, running in a south-westerly direction, rise, above the basin of the Mio.
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 Galicia (Central Europe)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria with the Duchies of Auschwitz and Zator.
Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, and the Grand Duchy of Krakau 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.
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 Galicia (Central Europe) - Open Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
As the successor state to Kievan-Rus', Galicia comprised an autonomous principality from 1087 to 1253 (united to Volynia in the state of Halych-Volynia from around 1200), which became a vassal kingdom of the Mongol Golden Horde from 1253 to 1340.
As such, the Austrian region of Poland and Ukraine was known as the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria to underline the Hungarian claims to the country.
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.
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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Poland   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
The Greek Uniat Bishopric of Chelm (Kholm), situated within the boundaries of the Kingdom of Poland, was compelled by force to accept the schism in 1875; however, since 1905, a large majority of the former Uniats have returned to the Catholic Church.
Napoleon did not reestablish the Kingdom of Poland, but, after the defeat of Prussia, he created the independent "Grand duchy of Warsaw" which continued in existence from 1807 to 1815 out of the Polish territories that were affected by the second and third partitions.
The head of the Catholic Church in Poland was the Archbishop of Gnesen, primate of the kingdom and legatus nalus.
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 Galicia (Ukraine and Poland)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
From 1815, the former Polish possessions of Austria were known as the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria.
Lodomeria was a term invented by the Habsburgs of Austria when they founded the 'Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria' in 1772 after another partition of Poland.
Galicia in its original meaning was an Austrian Crownland, which ultimately is divided between Poland and Ukraine.
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 hrabiowie
Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria: 22 Oct. 1776 for Tadeusz Gerwazy Dzieduszycki.
Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria: 7/19 Oct. 1803 for Ignacy and Cyprian Komorowski.
Kingdom of Poland: 1655 for Andrzej Samuel Stadnicki.
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 Wikipedia: L'viv
In 1657 Lviv was invaded by the foreign armies of the transylvanian duke George I Rákóczy and in 1672 by the Turkish army of Mehmed IV.
In 1867 Polish dominated Galicia was granted vast autonomy and the university was Polonized.
Because Galicia had been expanded to include ethnically Polish territory as well, therefore, the province of Galicia became the only part of the former Polish state with some cultural and political freedom, and L'viv then served as a major Polish political and cultural centre.
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 Lemberg
Upon the opening of the Estates (or Diet) of Galicia, 13 February, 1817, Archbishop Skarbel Ankvicz obtained the title of Primate of the Kingdoms of Galicia and Lodomeria, which title has been accorded since 1849 to the Ruthenian Catholic metropolitan.
In 1808 his jurisdiction was restricted to the territory of Galicia and Bukovina.
Even the Armenian Catholics of Transylvania, numbering 10,000, have been unable to obtain a bishop of their own rite or to become subject to the Armenian Archbishop of Lemberg, and they are obliged to submit to the authority of the Latin bishops.
www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/l/lemberg.html   (2042 words)

  
 Middle East Open Encyclopedia: Galicia (Central Europe)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
The Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, or simply Galicia, was the largest, most populous, and northernmost province of Austria from 1772 until 1918, with Lemberg (Lwów, L'viv) as its capital city.
As such, the Austrian region of Poland and what was later to become Ukraine was known as the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria to underline the Hungarian claims to the country.
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.
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 Stetl: A.Lichtblau & M.John - Lemberg and Czernowitz   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
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).
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 NTU Info Centre: Galicia (Central Europe)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
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.
The border was later recognized by Allies in 1945, and the region was ethnically cleansed by Soviets and a communist Polish government (Wisla Action).
In 1888 Galicia had 785 500 km² of area and was populated by ca.
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 Galicia --  Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - The online encyclopedia you can trust!
During the Middle Ages, eastern Galicia, situated between Hungary, Poland, and the western principalities of Kiev and Volhynia, was coveted by its neighbours for its fertile soil and its important commercial connections.
Galicia, however, did not become an integral part of the Mongol empire as did other lands of Rus, and in 1323, when Roman's dynasty died out, a Polish prince, Boleslaw Jerzy of Mazovia, was elected by the boyars to rule Galicia.
It is roughly coextensive with the former kingdom of Galicia and borders the Atlantic Ocean on the west and north and the country of...
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 Galicia (Central Europe)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Today, Galicia is an historical region split between Poland and Ukraine.
It was a vassal kingdom of the Mongol Golden Horde from 1253 to 1340.
In 1888 Galicia had 785,500 km² of area and was populated by ca.
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Galicia is a historic region of Eastern Europe, located north of the Carpathian Mountains and extending from the area around Krakow in Poland as far east as Ternopl in Ukraine.
The official Austrian name for the region--Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria--derived from the medieval principality of Galich (Polish, Halicz), which was united with Volhynia in 1199.
From the 6th to the 11th century AD the area was under the control of the Lombards, and in the 12th and 13th centuries it was part of the Norman kingdom of Sicily.
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 Online Encyclopedia and Dictionary - Austria-Hungary
monarchy), was a dualistic state (1867 –1918) in which the Kingdom of Hungary enjoyed self-government and representation in joint affairs (principally foreign relations and defence) with the western and northern lands of the Austrian Empire under the Austrian Emperors (who also reigned as Kings of Hungary) of the Habsburg dynasty.
At the same time, Magyar dominance faced challenges from the local majorities of Romanians in Transylvania and in the eastern Banat, of Slovaks in today's Slovakia, of Croats and Serbs in the crownlands of Croatia and of Dalmatia (today's Croatia), in Bosnia and Herzegovina and in the provinces known as the Vojvodina (today's northern Serbia).
A pro-monarchist revival in Hungary after the communist revolution and the Romanian intervention of 1919 led to the country's formal reversion to a kingdom (March 1920), but with the throne vacant.
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 Spotlight on Nation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
The Respublika of Galicia and Lodomeria is a massive, devout nation, renowned for its compulsory military service.
Galicia and Lodomeria's national animal is the Two Headed Black Eagle, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its currency is the Korona.
Galicia and Lodomeria is ranked 41st in the region and 32,075th in the world for Most Cultured.
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 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
The "Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria" was named after the old ruthenian principalities of Halicz and Vladimir, the capital was Lemberg, it reached from the eastern borders of Silesia up to the Bug, was polish in the west and ruthenian in the east, it offered particularly good conditions for agriculture.
In 1835, Galicia was described as extensively rich with good soil; grain, millet, corn, flax, hemp and tobacco were cultivated, also rhubarb around Lemberg.
But: the acquisition of Galicia 1772 changed the ethnical equilibrium of the monarchy, the areas north and northeast the Carpathians was also geographically separated from the remainder of the monarchy.
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 150 YEARS AGO: The Ukrainian National Awakening in Halychyna (11/08/98)
When Galicia and Volhynia merged at the beginning of the 13th century, it was called the principality of Galicia and Lodomeria.
Instead, at the suggestion of the Austrian governor of Galicia, Count Franz Stadion, on April 19, 1848, a group of Greek-Catholic clergymen led by the bishop-coadjutor of Lviv, Hryhorii Iakhymovych, addressed a separate petition to the emperor.
The Ukrainian petitions' introduction consisted of a historical survey that stressed the national distinctness of the Ukrainians of eastern Galicia, the past glories of the medieval principality of Halych, and its subsequent subjugation and exploitation by the Poles.
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 Galicia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Cloth manufacture is concentrated at Biala, while the weaving of linen and of woolens is pursued as a household industry, the former in the Carpathian region, the latter in eastern Galicia.
Galicia (or Halicz) took its rise, along with the neighboring principality of Lodomeria (or Vladimir), in the course of the tenth century the seat of the ruling dynasty being Halicz or Halitch.
The coast-line of Galicia, extending to about 240 m., is everywhere bold and deeply indented, presenting a large number of secure harbors, and in this respect forming a marked contrast to the neighboring province.
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 Galicia Central Europe - Term Explanation on IndexSuche.Com
Some historians hold that the name, "Galicia" recalls its former inhabitants, the eastern 13th or 14th_century, when the state of Halych-Volynia extended from the region of Halychyna proper, over Moldavia, up to the Black_Sea.
The region of Galicia appears too have been incorporated, in large part, into the Empire of Great_Moravia.
From 1868, Galicia was an autonomus province of Austria-Hungary with Polish as an official language.
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 Lukasiewicz   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Galicia, in which Lvov was situated, was attached to Austria in the 1772 partition of Poland.
However, by the time Lukasiewicz was born in Lvov, Austria had named the region the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria and given it a large degree of administrative autonomy.
Lukasiewicz was Polish Minister of Education in 1919 and a professor at Warsaw University from 1920 to 1939.
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 Austria-Hungary   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Empire (including the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria and the
Ukrainians), the lands of the Kingdom of Hungary (there was a Ukrainian population in Transcarpathia), and the territories of Bosnia and Herzegovina, annexed in 1908.
Hungary were annexed by Yugoslavia (the kingdom of the Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes), Italy, Rumania, and Poland.
www.encyclopediaofukraine.com /pages/A/U/Austria6Hungary.htm   (218 words)

  
 GALICIA (Ger. Galizien; Pol. Halicz) - Online Information article about GALICIA (Ger. Galizien; Pol. Halicz)
GALICIA (the ancient Gallaecia or Callaecia, KaMauci,a or KaXau da)
Novgorod; and in his turn Andreas, Mstislav's nominee, was expelled by Daniel of Lodomeria, a powerful prince, who by a flexible policy succeeded in maintaining his position.
Warsaw, and in 1810 part of East Galicia, including Tarnopol, was made over to Russia.
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 Crown land   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
The Ukrainian lands under Austria were part of the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria from 1774 to 1849 and then of the
Galicia included both Ukrainian and Polish ethnic territories, while
Ukrainians of Galicia demanded as early as 1848 that the
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 Phillips Family Ancestry
In 1868, Galicia was accorded limited self-government, with Polish education and administration.
The region returned to Polish control when Poland was reestablished in 1918, and the eastern portion was annexed by the USSR after the signing of the Nazi-Soviet Pact (1939).
Governed as part of the kingdom of Naples from about 1240 to 1861, it was then incorporated into the unified kingdom of Italy.
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 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.
The School Board of the Province of Galicia then approved the construction of two additional elementary schools but rejected the demand of the Brody municipal authorities that the language of instruction in both of them be German rather than Polish.
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.
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