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Questions about Polish borders, Galicia and Cossacks. [50]
2. Why is Galicia now in Ukraine?
That is (I think) because Stalin wanted Galicia to go to the Ukrainians (The Socialistic republic) he had "promised" them it. I am not sure if it was eally like that or if it was because of his imperial ambitions, it may have happened he wanted to use divide and conquest type of strategy since the area had the second largest Polish city in entire pre war Poland. If that was the plan he failed, although Galicia was originally made (the name) by the Austrian Empire. Before that it was named Podolie I think.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galicia_%28Eastern_Europe
There you should find something about Galicia :)
The region of what later became known as Galicia appears to have been incorporated, in large part, into the Empire of Great Moravia. It is first attested in the Primary Chronicle in A.D. 981, when Vladimir the Great of Kievan Rus' took over the Red Ruthenian cities in his military campaign on the border with Poland.
In the following century, the area shifted briefly to Poland (A.D. 1018 to 1031) and then back to Kievan Rus'. As one of many successors to Kievan Rus', the Principality of Halych existed from 1087 to 1200, when Roman the Great finally managed to unite it with Volhynia in the state of Halych-Volhynia.
Despite anti-Mongol campaigns of Danylo of Halych, who was crowned the king of Halych-Volhynia, his state occasionally paid tribute to the Golden Horde. Danylo moved his capital from Halych to Kholm, and his son Lev moved it to Lviv. Danylo's dynasty also attempted to gain papal and broader support in Europe for an alliance against the Mongols, but proved unable of competing with the rising powers of centralised Great Duchy of Lithuania and Poland. In the 1340s, the Rurikid dynasty died out, and the area passed to King Casimir III of Poland. But the sister state of Volhynia, together with Kiev fell under Lithuanian control.
Thereafter, the region comprised a Polish possession divided into a number of voivodeships. This began an era of German eastward expansion and Polish settlement among the Ruthenian population.Armenian and Jewish immigration to the region also occurred in large numbers. Numerous castles were built during this time and some new cities were founded: Stanisławów (Stanyslaviv in Ukrainian, now Ivano-Frankivsk) and Krystynopol (now Chervonohrad).
"Galicia was many times subjected to incursions by Tartars and Ottoman Turkey in the XVI and XVII centuries, however they were driven out, devastated during the Khmelnytsky Uprising (1648-1654), the Russo-Polish War (1654-1667), and inconvenienced by Swedish invasions during The Deluge (1655-1660), and the Swedes returned during the Great Northern War of the early 18th century."
