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| This site was created
primarily for those whose roots come from that part of Galicia
known as Lemkovyna, or Lemkivshchyna in Ukrainian, mostly descendants
of the turn of the century "Ruthenian/Rusyn/Ukrainian"
immigrants, particularly English speaking North Americans, who
wish to learn more about their heritage. As a result of the first
partition of Poland in 1772, Galicia was occupied by Austria,
eventually it wound up in the Austro-Hungarian Empire until the
empire's disintegration in 1918. Prior to it, and from 1918 until
1939, Galicia was administered by Poland. Currently, the territory
of Lemkovyna finds itself in south-eastern post WW II Poland. |
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