West Galicia
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"New Galicia" redirects here. For the historical region in Mexico, see Nueva Galicia.
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 | |
New Galicia is shown in yellow and green | |
Capital | Lublin Kraków (from 1797) |
History | |
24 October 1795 | |
• Joined Galicia | 1803 |
• Treaty of Schönbrunn | 15 December 1809 |
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The Austrian Empire lost West Galicia to the Grand Duchy of Warsaw in 1809, following its defeat by Napoleon [1]