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Encyclopedia > Kingdom of Galicia

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Galicia | Austrian Empire (663 words)
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.
Galicia: Definition and Much More from Answers.com (5004 words)
Galicia was the center of the branch of Orthodox Judaism known as Hasidism.
Galicia was twice occupied by the Ottoman Turks in the 1490s and 1520s, ravaged by Ukrainian Cossack pogroms and Russian and Swedish invasions during The Deluge, and the Swedes returned during the Great Northern War of the early 18th century.
After the death of George II of Halych, the kingdom of Galicia was annexed by the kingdom of Poland between 1340 and 1366, during the reign of Casimir III of Poland.
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