List Of People From Galicia (modern Period)
The following list includes famous people of various nationalities who were born in or resided for a significant period in Galicia (Eastern Europe), part of Ukraine. (18th–20th centuries). A~F * Roman Abraham, general of the Polish Army, born in Lviv * Eliezer Adler, the founder of the Jewish Community in Gateshead, England, born in Stanislau * Shmuel Agnon, Jewish writer, the founder of modern Israeli Hebrew literature, born in Buchach * Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz, philosopher and logician, born in Ternopil * Izak Aloni (born Izak Schächter), Polish-Israeli chess master, born in Lviv * Antin Angelovych, the first Greek Catholic metropolitan of Lviv (1808–14), born in Hryniv, near Bibrka * Andrzej Alojzy Ankwicz, Count, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Lvov (1815–33), and Archbishop of Prague (1833–38), born in Cracow * Alicia Appleman-Jurman, Jewish American writer, raised from the age of five in Buchach * Muhammad Asad (born Leopold Weiss), Pakistan's ambassador to UN, born ...
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Galicia (Eastern Europe)
Galicia ()"Galicia"
''Collins English Dictionary'' ( uk, Галичина, translit=Halychyna ; pl, Galicja; yi, גאַליציע) is a historical and geographic region spanning what is now southeastern Poland and western Ukraine, long part of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.See also: It covers much of such historic regions as Red Ruthenia (centered on Lviv) and Lesser Poland (centered on Kraków). The name of the region derives from the medieval city of Halych, and was first mentioned in Hungarian historical chronicles in the year 1206 as ''Galiciæ''. The eastern part of the region was controlled by the medieval Kingdom of Galicia a ...
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