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Eastern Lesser Poland / Eastern Galicia: Lwów (Lviv), Tarnopol (Ternopil) and Stanisławów (Stanyslaviv, now Ivano-Frankivsk) Voivodeships - territories inhabited by the Ukrainian minority in the Second Polish Republic and affected by the pacification in 1930
Galician laborers working for the Edison Portland Cement Company in New Village, New Jersey, in 1910. [1] Sierra Córdoba in Vigo, departing for America with emigrants.. The Galician diaspora is the ethnically Galician population outside of Galicia.
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.
Galician and Castilian are the official languages of the Autonomous Community of Galicia. Galician migration to North America took place mainly between 1868 and 1930, [1] although there was a second smaller wave in the late 1940s and 1950s, when Galicians managed to form a small community in Newark. [2]
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.
Galician Jews or Galitzianers (Yiddish: גאַליציאַנער, romanized: Galitsianer) are members of the subgroup of Ashkenazi Jews originating and developed in the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria and Bukovina from contemporary western Ukraine (Lviv, Ivano-Frankivsk, and Ternopil Oblasts) and from south-eastern Poland (Subcarpathian and Lesser 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]
A similar order was issued by the UPA commander in Eastern Galicia, Vasyl Sydor ("Shelest"). [24] This order was often disobeyed and entire villages were slaughtered. [25] In Eastern Galicia between 1943 and 1946, OUN-B and UPA killed 20,000–25,000 Poles. [26] 1,000–2,000 Ukrainians were killed by the Polish underground. [27]