The Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria was a crownland of the Habsburg Monarchy, the Austrian Empire, and Austria–Hungary from 1772 to 1918 (see Cisleithania).
This historical region in eastern Central Europe is currently divided between Poland and Ukraine. The nucleus of historic Galicia currently consists of the Lviv, Ternopil and Ivano-Frankivsk regions of western Ukraine.
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