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West Galicia
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New Galicia or West Galicia (Polish: Nowa Galicja or Galicja Zachodnia; German: Neugalizien or Westgalizien) was an administrative region of the Habsburg monarchy, constituted from the territory annexed in the course of the Third Partition of Poland in 1795.
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New Galicia | |
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Administrative region of the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria (Habsburg Monarchy) | |
1795–1803 | |
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Capital | Lublin Kraków (from 1797) |
History | |
24 October 1795 | |
• Joined Galicia | 1803 |
• Treaty of Schönbrunn | 15 December 1809 |
Today part of | Poland |
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The Austrian Empire lost West Galicia to the Duchy of Warsaw in 1809, following its defeat by Napoleon [1]