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12: Habsburg Curiosity

The Making of Modern Ukraine

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The First Partition of Poland

1756 to 1763 is the next major conflict between Prussia and the Habsburgs. Then, politics turns in 1772 with the first partition of Poland. In this partition that the Austrians take this territory, which they call Galicia - a beautiful example of imperial naming and renaming. And so, there's a historical crownlands, as you know in this class of Galicia, we call them Galicia and Volynia. They also were kings of Jerusalem but didn't actually rule Laudomeria.

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