At the crossroads of cultures and nations : Galician cities and towns in the Josephine land cadastre

Oprac. Michał Baczkowski

This publication results from the international research project “At the meeting point of cultures and nations. Galician towns and small towns in the Josephinian Land Survey” financed from the appropriations of the National Science Centre within the Harmonia 8 program. The program involves creating a unique, online-accessible database of towns and their inhabitants as well as defining the components of the social space of towns and small towns of the five easternmost “cyrkuls” of Galicia, i.e. districts of Berezhany (Brzeżany), Brody (Zolochiv, Złoczów), Ternopil (Tarnopol), Zalishchyky (Zaleszczyki) and Stanyslaviv (Ivano-Frankivsk, Stanisławów). The source basis for the research are mass and complementary historical sources from the 80s of the 18th century: the Josephinian Land Survey, created in the years 1785-1788 and the so-called urbarial descriptions, drawn up in 1789 for tax purposes. Volume 12 presents source materials for the towns of the Brody (Zolochiv, Złoczów) “cyrkul”: Bilyi Kamin (Biały Kamień) and Kholoiv (Chołojów). The introduction discusses the legal status, geographical location and property structure of the above mentioned towns as well as characterises the main elements of their physical, public, political and social space. The publication has been supplemented with copies of some of the source documents (among others, descriptions of town borders) and tabular list of town inhabitants made on the basis of the Josphinian Land Survey and the so-calledurbarial descriptions.