GALICIA RESEARCH – INTERESTS AND CONSIDERATIONS FOR EXPLORING A CENTRAL EUROPEAN REGION GALICIA RESEARCH – INTERESTS AND CONSIDERATIONS FOR EXPLORING A CENTRAL EUROPEAN REGION

Abstract

The focus of my paper is on Galicia's research over the last decades. After a change of regime in Eastern Europe began an intensive scientific research on the history of the former Polish area and then on the history and cultural heritage of the Habsburg province. I would like to present the political, economic and cultural aspects what motivated Poland, Austria, Germany and, of course, Ukraine to explore the region. In these countries, there are several historical, genealogical, literary and ethnographic institutes and research groups dealing with Galicia, whose activities and results are presented. As regards Ukraine, I want to extend my presentation to the so-called. West Ukraine, which includes Bukovina and Volhynia. Let me outline what precedents have made these historic and ethnic regions eligible for living identity for today's living Ukrainians, which is the taking of European values and the continuation of the civilian tradition, a regional identity that plays a role in today's Ukrainian state building.