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Galicia (in English) was kind of boomerang shaped. The northern part ran along the northen slopes of the Carpathian Moutains from just west of Krakow over to Lviv (Lwow) and the to the south towards Romania.
Austria took if from Poland in about 1772 and was forced to give it up in about 1918.
If you go to Steznica in Poland there is a high probabilty that anybody you meet may be your genetic relative. That is because peasant families were inclined not to move around. The nobles that owned everything made leaving impossible (they called it serfdom), so within a period of 300-500 years everyone in a village was, at least vaguely, related to everyone else.
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