Dr. Franciszek Wasyl’s Armenians in Old Poland and Austrian Galicia. A Demographic and Historical Study will be published in the near future. The book is devoted to the Armenian Diaspora living in that part of former Poland which, as a result of the partitions, fell under the rule of the Hapsburg Empire in 1772.
Galicia, as it is referred to, was a province of a state that stretched across large areas of Central Europe, encompassing many ethnicities and nations, peoples of different languages, ethnolects, religions and religious rites. Dr. Wasyl’s work is devoted to the demographic and historical issues of the small but influential Armenian community living in the south-eastern corner of Galicia. The chronological caesuras are, on the one hand, the first partition of Poland (1772) and, on the other, the autonomy of Poles in the Austrian province (late 1860s and 1870s). The book will be published by the Brill Ferdinand Schöningh publishing house under the patronage of the Research Centre for Armenian Culture in Poland. The publishing project was funded by the National Programme for the Development of the Humanities within the framework of the competition ‘Internationalisation’ (registration number 3aH 15 0248 83).
