District of Galicia

Digital Passport

Flag

District of Galicia

Name

District of Galicia

Nomenclature and Geography

Category: Historical

Summary

The District of Galicia was a World War II administrative unit of Nazi Germany’s General Government, created on 1 August 1941 after Operation Barbarossa. It covered territory roughly corresponding to the former Polish voivodeships of Lwów, Tarnopol and Stanisławów, now western Ukraine. The district existed until the Soviet counter‑offensive in 1944, after which it was dissolved.

Location

No coordinate data available yet.