Austrian military Archives - Forgotten Galicia https://forgottengalicia.com/tag/austrian-military/ Remnants of the past found in Lviv, Galicia & the former Austrian Empire Mon, 02 May 2022 19:33:42 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 https://forgottengalicia.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Bird-150x150.png Austrian military Archives - Forgotten Galicia https://forgottengalicia.com/tag/austrian-military/ 32 32 ‘Ked’ my pryshla karta’: An Austro-Hungarian Recruit Song https://forgottengalicia.com/ked-my-pryshla-karta-an-austro-hungarian-recruit-song/ https://forgottengalicia.com/ked-my-pryshla-karta-an-austro-hungarian-recruit-song/#comments Sat, 19 Feb 2022 13:17:12 +0000 https://forgottengalicia.com/?p=11853 “Ked’ my pryshla karta” (Кедь ми прийшла карта) is a folk ballad from the Lemko region (Lemkovyna or Lemkivshchyna), a mountainous territory that stretches along the present-day borders of Ukraine, Poland, and Slovakia. The area that today belongs to Poland and Ukraine was a part of Galicia until WWI, while […]

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]]> https://forgottengalicia.com/ked-my-pryshla-karta-an-austro-hungarian-recruit-song/feed/ 1 Country of Roxolania: Ukrainian Women in the First World War https://forgottengalicia.com/country-of-roxolania-ukrainian-women-in-the-first-world-war/ https://forgottengalicia.com/country-of-roxolania-ukrainian-women-in-the-first-world-war/#respond Sat, 22 Jan 2022 12:23:51 +0000 https://forgottengalicia.com/?p=49496 By Mariana Baidak for Lokalna Istoriya (original in Ukrainian) “Out of my love for Ukraine, I took a rifle and went to the field to beat the enemy with physical force,” said Olena Stepaniv, the most famous Ukrainian military woman, more than 100 years ago. Since then, the issue of […]

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]]> https://forgottengalicia.com/country-of-roxolania-ukrainian-women-in-the-first-world-war/feed/ 0 Galician Military Units of the Austrian-Hungarian Empire https://forgottengalicia.com/galician-military-units-of-the-austrian-hungarian-empire/ https://forgottengalicia.com/galician-military-units-of-the-austrian-hungarian-empire/#comments Sun, 23 May 2021 05:42:00 +0000 https://forgottengalicia.com/?p=11758 By Evan Samborski Through dangerous gamesmanship of its nationalism policy by mixing concessions with brutally underhanded tactics to manage competing national projects, the Austrian-Hungarian Empire cultivated a great deal of conscription units from the territory of Galicia prior to, and through World War One. The course of dedication to state […]

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]]> https://forgottengalicia.com/galician-military-units-of-the-austrian-hungarian-empire/feed/ 12 Austrian Military Barracks in Lviv – Part II https://forgottengalicia.com/austrian-military-barracks-in-lviv-part-ii/ https://forgottengalicia.com/austrian-military-barracks-in-lviv-part-ii/#comments Sun, 12 Apr 2020 18:08:17 +0000 http://forgottengalicia.com/?p=7902 From the End of Nineteenth Century to WWI When Galicia came under the rule of the Habsburg Monarchy in 1772, no specially built barracks or barracks complexes existed in Lviv. At first, the Austrian military used the premises of Lviv’s monasteries for magazines (ammunition storehouses) and barracks (Ger: Kaserne/Caserne; Polish: koszary; Ukr: касарні, казарми, кошари). […]

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]]> https://forgottengalicia.com/austrian-military-barracks-in-lviv-part-ii/feed/ 3 Dom Inwalidów: Where Disabled Military Veterans Retired in Lviv https://forgottengalicia.com/dom-inwalidow-where-disabled-military-veterans-retired-in-lviv/ https://forgottengalicia.com/dom-inwalidow-where-disabled-military-veterans-retired-in-lviv/#respond Sat, 28 Mar 2020 10:33:54 +0000 http://forgottengalicia.com/?p=8657 The Romantic historicist ensemble of the former Dom Inwalidów / K. K. Invalidenhaus (Invalids’ House) is a valuable monument of architecture and history. An initiative of the emperor of the Austrian Empire, the Dom Inwalidów was a retirement home for disabled military veterans in Lwów / Lemberg from 1863 to […]

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