Administrative Division
The Austrian Empire divided the former territories of the Commonwealth it obtained into:
- Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria - from 1772 to 1918.
- New Galicia - from 1795 to 1809
- Free City of Kraków - from 1815 to 1846
Two important and major cities of the Austrian partition were Kraków (Cracow) and Lwów (Lviv).
In the first partition, Austria received the largest share of the formerly Polish population, and the second largest land share (83,000 km² and over 2.65 million people). Austria did not participate in the second partition, and in the third, it received 47,000km² with 1.2 million people. Overall, Austria gained about 18 percent of the former Commonwealth territory (130,000 km²) and about 32 percent of the population (3.85 million people). From the geographical perspective, much of the Austrian partition corresponded to the Galicia region.
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