King Leo the first owner of the Lviv, capital city of Galicia

In the Carpathians, north of Romania, north-east of Hungary, east of Slovakia, and south-east of Poland. A Russian duchy from the 11th century, it became a kingdom in 1253, albeit it was a Mongol tributary in that era. The Kingdom was shattered by internal conflicts, and the region was occupied by Poland in 1340 and annexed in 1349. During the 19th century the Austro-Hungarian Emperors took the style "King of Galicia and Lodomeria", and in fact Galitzia had considerable local autonomy after 1867.

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