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Eastern Galicia, with the ethnic composition of about two thirds Ukrainians and one third Poles, [nb 2] [5] east of the Curzon line, was incorporated into the Second Polish Republic after Austria-Hungary's collapse and the defeat of the short-lived West Ukrainian People's Republic. [1]
In his 2006 general history of WWII, Niall Ferguson gives the total number of Polish victims in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia as between 60,000 and 80,000. [178] G. Rossolinski-Liebe estimated 70,000–100,000. [179] John P. Himka says that "perhaps a hundred thousand" Poles were killed in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia. [8]
In the eastern half of Galicia, Ukrainians made up approximately 65% of the population while Poles made up 22% of the population and Jews made up 12%. [13] Of the 44 administrative divisions of Austrian eastern Galicia, Lviv ( Polish : Lwów , German: Lemberg ), the biggest and capital city of the province , was the only one in which Poles made ...
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.
This article would more accurately be titled Repression of Ukrainians in Eastern Galicia (1930). As written, it creates the misimpression that the pacification was justified. It was more accurately a case of collective punishment of the ethnic Ukrainian population in response to the deeds of a fairly small number of OUN operatives.
Vice President JD Vance vowed Monday that the Trump administration will “finish the cleanup” of East Palestine, Ohio, during a visit to mark the 2-year anniversary of a toxic train derailment. ...
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%.
The biggest battle in Galicia happened in Hanaczów, where the Polish self-defense supported by local Jews in the area fought with the Ukrainian Insurgent Army supported by deserters from the 14th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (1st Galician). The battle ended with a Polish victory, but despite this the village was destroyed by the Germans.