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crownland

(ˈkraʊnˌlænd)
n
(Historical Terms) a large administrative division of the former empire of Austria-Hungary
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Courtney Grieve, of Crownland House, Eastgate, Moffat, admitted failing to maintain a proper lookout on the A710 Beattock road at its junction with the B7076 Gretna road, failing to give way and colliding with an oncoming car.
(The Austrian crownland of Galicia was larger; its western territories were incorporated into Poland after World War II.) Often commentators and scholars operate with the term "western Ukraine," but as far as politics are concerned, the three Galician oblasts are quite different from the other western Ukrainian oblasts of Chernivtsi (comprising mainly the former Bukovina) and Transcarpathia.
Similarly, while Poles feature more prominently than Jews, no chapter deals specifically with their experience of Galicia as an Austrian crownland. (Given the attention paid to religion in these essays, a chapter considering how shared Roman Catholicism affected relations between Poles and the Habsburg administration might have been quite fitting and enlightening.) Finally, a chapter examining the Habsburg administration's view of Galicia and its distinctiveness would have rounded out the story of why we still speak of Galicia today and not just greater Malopolska or western Ukraine.
Early female activists of KKOL (including Dziubinska) and the Society of Secret Instruction (including its founder, Cecylia Sniego cka) eventually joined the nationalist umbrella educational organization, the Society of National Education (TON--Towarzystwo Oswiaty Narodowej), as well as its women's organization, the Circle of Women of the Crownland and Lithuania (Kolo Kobiet Korony i Litwy).
After the father's early death in 1860, the family moved to Czernowitz, the capital of the crownland Bukovina, an eastern outpost of the Habsburg empire that sported a sophisticated Jewish population with an active cultural life in Yiddish, Hebrew, and German.
If it is indeed of Galician origin, I surmise that the word "Holodomor" arose under the influence of a satirical name for the old Austrian crownland, known in German as Galizien und Lodomerien; wags renamed it Golicja i Glodomeria, which in Polish signifies a place where people go naked and die of hunger.
To understand the mind of those who live in the veiled, history-bound, intellectually suicidal Crownlands of Cannonia, a country rising from foggy, boggy Marchlands upon which bloody stalemates were fought, one must follow two lines of thought.
His book deals with the negotiations associated with the unsuccessful attempt by the Czech nobility and growing middle class to secure a federalized Habsburg monarchy with the Crownlands of Bohemia, Moravia, and Silesia, thus becoming an equal partner with Austria and Hungary, changing the structure of the empire from a dualist to a trialist one.