Was Galicia Part of Austria-Hungary in 1914?

Yes. In 1914, Galicia was a crownland (province) of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, a status it held from the First Partition of Poland in 1772 until the empire's dissolution in 1918.

Stretching across what is now southeastern Poland and western Ukraine, Galicia was the empire's northernmost major province—a multiethnic mosaic of Poles, Ukrainians (then called Ruthenians), Jews, Germans, and others. Its capital, Lemberg (today Lviv), was a cultural and administrative hub.

The province's strategic position made it a major Eastern Front battleground during World War I, changing hands multiple times between Austro-Hungarian, Russian, and later Polish and Ukrainian forces. The post-war treaties assigned western Galicia to the Second Polish Republic and eastern Galicia to the Soviet Union (Ukrainian SSR), ending its 146-year run as a distinct imperial entity.

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