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Galicia, also known by its variant name Galizia [2] (/ ɡ ə ˈ l ɪ ʃ (i) ə / gə-LISH-(ee-)ə; [3] Polish: Galicja, IPA: [ɡaˈlit͡sja] ⓘ; Ukrainian: Галичина, romanized: Halychyna, IPA: [ɦɐlɪtʃɪˈnɑ]; Yiddish: גאַליציע, romanized: Galitsye; see below), is a historical and geographic region spanning what is now southeastern Poland and western Ukraine, long part of ...
Western and Eastern Galicia in the late 20th century (German-language map) Eastern Galicia (Ukrainian: Східна Галичина, romanized: Skhidna Halychyna; Polish: Galicja Wschodnia; German: Ostgalizien) is a geographical region in Western Ukraine (present day oblasts of Lviv, Ivano-Frankivsk and Ternopil), having also essential historic importance in Poland.
Today, the territory of Galicia is split between Poland in the west and Ukraine in the east. At the turn of the Twentieth Century, Poles constituted 88.7% of the whole population of Western Galicia, Jews 7.6%, Ukrainians 3.2%, Germans 0.3%, and others 0.2%.
Google has updated it's aerial maps of Ukraine for the first time since the start of Russia's attack - with images now revealing the full scale of devastation. The contrast is stark in Mariupol.
Old Town of Lviv, the capital of the Kingdom of Galicia–Volhynia [1] from 1272 to 1349 and nowadays, the most populated city of Western Ukraine Old city and Catholic churches in Uzhhorod, showing the influence of Western Christianity on Western Ukraine Fortress of Kamianets, a former Ruthenian-Lithuanian [2] castle and a later three-part Polish fortress [3] [4] [5]
Ternopil, [a] known until 1944 mostly as Tarnopol, is a city in western Ukraine, located on the banks of the Seret. Administratively, it serves as the administrative centre of Ternopil Oblast. Ternopil is one of the major cities of Western Ukraine and the historical regions of Galicia and Podolia. It is served by Ternopil Airport.
As Russian forces make slow progress in eastern Ukraine, Ukraine's military stages a surprise cross-border attack.
Volodymyr Kubijovyč, Ihor Stebelsky, Mykhailo Zhdan, Podillia in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine, vol. 4 (1993). It was slightly updated in 2010. Map of Podolia (1882) The Official Site of the Radomysl Castle Archived 2020-08-14 at the Wayback Machine (in Russian) Petrov N. (1891) Podolia. A Historical Description (Подолия.