The (; ; , ; , ) of Galicia and Lodomeria go back in some form to the aftermath of the
First Partition of Poland in 1772 which led to the Kingdom's creation, but did not take something resembling their final form until 1782. They were (generally) named after their capital/seat; usually this would take the form
[genitival adjectival form of the name] (usually simply
[Name]er e.g. from , the German name for
Lviv), but
[standard form of the name] (e.g. ) was also used, especially later, and the two forms were interchangeable. At first, Galicia and Lodomeria was divided into six large circles (), named after major centers (
Belz,
Halych,
Lviv,
Pilzno,
Sambir,
Wieliczka), which were subdivided into 59 ('circle districts') in 1773. In 1775 the number of was reduced to 19. In 1782 the two-level system was abolished and Galicia and Lodomeria was divided into 18 of the type used in the other non-Hungarian Habsburg realms (what would later be called
Cisleithania). Over the next decade these would mostly take the forms which would persist until the mid-19th century. As the border of Galicia and Lodomeria itself, the
Vistula formed the northern borders of the , , and (partially) . The (an exception where the name derives from
the region, although it was also known as ) was added to Galicia and Lodomeria in 1786, having previously been a separate military district. By the 1790s the were: In 1791 the had become the when its capital moved there. The lands gained by the Habsburgs in the 1795
Third Partition of Poland became
West (or New) Galicia, a separate part of the kingdom. It too was divided into . The area around on the right (southern) bank of the
Vistula was transferred to the . West Galicia was incorporated into Galicia-proper in 1803 as a semi-autonomous region. West Galicia was largely bounded by the Vistula,
Bug and
Pilica rivers. The Vistula also formed the eastern border of the , the western border of the and , the eastern and southern border of the , the southern border of the and part of those of the and . The West Galician : Sometimes the and from the first partition were considered as a part of West Galicia. In 1803 West and East Galicia were united into Galicia and the number of in West Galicia was reduced to 6: Krakuer, Kielcer, Radomer, Lubliner, Chełmer, Bialer. In 1804 the
Habsburg monarchy, which until then had been
de jure a collection of nominally separate states in a
personal union under the
Habsburg(
-Lorraine)s, was formally united into the
Austrian Empire, making Galicia and Lodomeria an Austrian crown land. In 1809 the
Treaty of Schönbrunn ceded the third-partition-territory plus the and an area around on the right bank of the Vistula to the
Duchy of Warsaw, a
Napoleonic
client. It also ceded the and most of the to the
Russian Empire, where they became the . Most of the
rump of was merged with a part of the to become the with the rest going to the itself. The was returned to Austria in 1815 (
Congress of Vienna); the former became the . The area adjacent to on the right bank of the Vistula, which had been part of the Duchy of Warsaw, went to the and , re-establishing the Vistula as the border. (The other territories which had been ceded to the Duchy of Warsaw on the other hand went to the Russian-controlled
Congress Poland, other than the city of Kraków and its environs, which became the
Free City of Cracow.) In 1819 the became the . The Free City of Cracow was annexed by Austria in 1846, nominally becoming the
Grand Duchy of Kraków but administratively added to Galicia as the . The extent of this , which matched that of the former free city, was similar but not identical to the earlier of West Galicia. The was detached as the
Duchy of Bukovina in 1849. In 1850, following the
Revolutions of 1848 the were abolished and replaced with a system of political districts (see ) but these changes were reversed in
Bach's reforms from 1853. The changes to Galicia and Lodomeria were specifically laid out in 1854: they divided the crown land into two (administrative regions/territories) based in Lemberg (Lviv/Lwów) and Krakau (Krawów), which each oversaw some of the land's ; the two cities themselves were directly subordinate to the crown land. The were also subdivided into ('districts'; also referred to as ('office districts')). In 1860 and Bukovina were dissolved and re-subordinated to ; the was partitioned between the and ; the and were merged into . Bukovina was detached again in the 1861
February Patent. Below is a list of the divisions (, and ) as of 1854, == and political districts (1850–53) ==