Drohobych Archives - Forgotten Galicia https://forgottengalicia.com/tag/drohobych/ Remnants of the past found in Lviv, Galicia & the former Austrian Empire Tue, 05 Mar 2024 13:45:59 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 https://forgottengalicia.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Bird-150x150.png Drohobych Archives - Forgotten Galicia https://forgottengalicia.com/tag/drohobych/ 32 32 The Galician Petroleum Industry and Its Connection to the Jews of the Drohobycz Region https://forgottengalicia.com/the-galician-petroleum-industry-and-its-connection-to-the-jews-of-the-drohobycz-region/ https://forgottengalicia.com/the-galician-petroleum-industry-and-its-connection-to-the-jews-of-the-drohobycz-region/#comments Sat, 15 Feb 2020 11:29:00 +0000 http://forgottengalicia.com/?p=5360 “The Galician Petroleum Industry” by Valerie Schatzker for the Drohobycz Administrative District website From the middle of the nineteenth century, the history of the Jews of the Drohobycz Administrative District was closely connected with the history of the petroleum industry. As the demand for naphtha lamp oil grew, the oil-rich […]

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]]> https://forgottengalicia.com/the-galician-petroleum-industry-and-its-connection-to-the-jews-of-the-drohobycz-region/feed/ 1 Black Gold In Galicia: Oil Boom & Bust In Austria-Hungary https://forgottengalicia.com/black-gold-in-galicia-oil-boom-bust-in-austria-hungary/ https://forgottengalicia.com/black-gold-in-galicia-oil-boom-bust-in-austria-hungary/#respond Thu, 26 Oct 2017 12:09:06 +0000 http://forgottengalicia.com/?p=2920 By Chris Wilkinson Oil, that vital resource the modern world needs to exist, does not immediately come to mind when one thinks of Eastern Europe. Oil reserves are most frequently associated with the Middle East, United States, Canada, the North Sea, Mexico and Venezuela among others. Of course the elephant […]

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