West Galicia

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New Galicia Neugalizien (German)
Administrative region of the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria (Habsburg Monarchy)
1795–1803
New Galicia is shown in yellow and green
Capital	Lublin Kraków (from 1797)
History
• Third partition	24 October 1795
• Joined Galicia	1803
• Treaty of Schönbrunn	15 December 1809
Preceded by Succeeded by Masovian Voivodeship (1526–1795) Kraków Voivodeship (14th century – 1795) Sandomierz Voivodeship Lublin Voivodeship (1474–1795) Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria Duchy of Warsaw

New Galicia or West Galicia (Polish: Nowa Galicja or Galicja Zachodnia; German: Neugalizien or Westgalizien) was an administrative region of the Habsburg monarchy, constituted from the territory annexed in the course of the Third Partition of Poland in 1795.

The Austrian Empire lost West Galicia to the Grand Duchy of Warsaw in 1809, following its defeat by Napoleon ^[1]