The
Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, also known as
Austrian Poland, was a
crownland of the
Habsburg Monarchy since the
First Partition of Poland in 1772, when it became a Kingdom under Habsburg rule. From 1804 to 1918 it was a crownland of the
Austrian Empire. The country was carved from the entire south-eastern part of the
Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. Among the many ceremonial titles of the princes of Hungary was "ruler of Galicia and Lodomeria". The name "Galicia" is the Latinized form of Halych, a principality of the medieval
Rus'. "
Lodomeria", is a
placename that was historically used to refer to parts of East-Central Europe, but with a meaning that shifted over time. The word is a
Latinized form of the , likely in turn from
Old East Slavic, meaning "lands of Vladimir". This refers either directly to the ruler of
Kievan Rus,
Vladimir the Great (therefore meaning the lands conquered by him), or else refers to the city he founded and named for himself in CE 987,
Wlodimer (or Volodymyr).