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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]
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.
The respective data for Eastern Galicia show the following numbers: Ruthenians 64.5%, Poles 22.0%, Jews 12%. [29] [30] Of the 44 administrative divisions of Austrian eastern Galicia, Lviv (Polish: Lwów, German: Lemberg) was the only one in which Poles made up a majority of the population. [31]
Pre-conquest ethno-demographic map of the area that was to become 'New Galicia" Spanish exploration of the area began in 1531 with Nuño Beltrán de Guzmán's expedition. . He named the main city founded in the area Villa de Guadalajara after his birthplace and called the area he conquered "la Conquista del Espíritu Santo de la Mayor España" ("the Conquest of the Holy Spirit of Greater Spain
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.
Map of Wołyń (Volhynia) and Eastern Galicia in 1939 The recreated Polish state covered large territories inhabited by Ukrainians, while the Ukrainian movement failed to achieve independence. According to the Polish census of 1931, in Eastern Galicia, the Ukrainian language was spoken by 52% of the inhabitants, Polish by 40% and Yiddish by 7%.
Eastern Borderlands [1] (Polish: Kresy Wschodnie) or simply Borderlands (Polish: Kresy, Polish pronunciation:) was a historical region of the eastern part of the Second Polish Republic. The term was coined during the interwar period (1918–1939).
In 1929, Jagielnica merged with numerous other towns in the area. During the Pacification of Ukrainians in Eastern Galicia in the 1930s, Ukrainians were banned from Jagielnica, now called Yahil'nytsya, in favor of allowing entry to Rusyns. During this period, it was a crime to show Ukrainian pride in any way.