Western Galicia ( Polish Galicja Zachodnia , German Westgalizien ) or New Galicia ( Polish Nowa Galicja , German Neugalizien ) - was the administrative district of the Austrian Habsburg Empire , created from the territories obtained as a result of the Third Partition of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in 1795.
After the unsuccessful Uprising of Kosciuszko in 1794, Emperor Francis II of Habsburg agreed with the Russian Empress Catherine II on a new division of the Commonwealth, as a result of which it ceased to exist. On October 24, 1795, Prussia joined the treaty. Austria, which had not previously participated in the Second Section, now received the Krakow, Lublin, part of the Masovian, Podljashsky, Kholm and Brest-Lithuanian voivodships, which included the composition of Northern Galicia and Lodomeria obtained in the First Section 1772. 1803 - entry into the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria with little limited autonomy .
It existed before the Austrians lost in the Warsaw Duchy with Austria, after which the region became part of the Duchy of Warsaw .
After 1815, the territory of New Galicia was divided between the Kingdom of Poland and the Free City of Krakow .
Literature
- Tadeusz Mencel: Galicja Zachodnia (1795-1809) , Lublin 1976.