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The outbreak of the First World War (1914–1918) forced the countless civilians to leave their homes and to become war refugees. This topic has remained largely unexplored by the historians. The number of refugees from the multinational Galicia in the years 1914–1918 was large in many parts of the former Austria-Hungary, which finds its reflection in archival materials scattered over various archives and over an extensive territory. This paper presents the issue of the Galician war refugees who found themselves in the Lands of the Crown of Saint Stephen. It also outlines the general problem of emigration as well as describes relations between the refugees and the local people. It was not only due to antagonisms but also due to the administrative decisions of the Hungarian authorities that the Galician refugees remained alien to the locals, despite the fact they all were citizens of the same Habsburg Monarchy.

As a result of war hostilities which began in the Habsburg Monarchy in 1914, migrations of the civilian population started, resulting from the movement of war refugees from the eastern front, i.e. Galicia, and also since May 1915 from the Italian front. Austria-Hungary had to face relocation and accommodation of hundreds of thousands of civilians, who were put in special refugee camps or outside of them in various towns and cities in the monarchy while being housed with their residents or in specially adapted buildings. The article shows selected aspects of the system of barrack camps created during the World War I in the Habsburg Monarchy, focusing on the efficiency of the system in the face of real challenges of the war period.

"Galicia will forever remain Galicia": The Crown Land on the Outskirts of the Empire in Reflection of Journal "Vaterländische Blätter für den österreichischen Kaiserstaat" The main aim of this article is to describe Galicia as it was reflected in Austrian journalism from the first decades of the 19th century. For this purpose, a journal entitled "Vaterländische Blätter für den österreichischen Kaiserstaat" was analyzed. This periodical was published in Vienna between 1808–1820 (since 1815 under the modified title: "Erneuerte vaterländische Blätter…"). This was a crucial period in the history of the Habsburg Empire (because of the Napoleonic Wars, in which Austria was engaged directly, the territorial changes, the decimation of the power previously held by the monarchy in the international politics), during which Galicia had only recently become an integral part of the monarchy. Through an examination of selected feuilletons, which referred to Galicia as a new province of the empire in such an unstable period, the author will investigate how Galicia was described by publicists and travellers in the press and what kind of depictions of this province were delivered for German-speaking public opinion.

List of figures -- List of tables -- The war that never ended: East-Central Europe after 1918 / Tomasz Pudłocki and Kamil Ruszała -- The politics of recognition at the Paris Peace Conference / Leonard V. Smith -- The protection of minorities at the Paris Peace Conference (1919-1920) / Miran Marelja, Ozren Pilipović, and Meta Athik -- Montenegro 1918-1921 in the context of the Adriatic Question / Petar Bagarić -- Diplomacy and national identity of Czechoslovakia in the interwar period: appropriation, thematisation, institutionalization and sustainability / Milada Polišenskás -- The leftover empire?: imperial legacies and statehood in the successor states of AustriaHungary / Gábor Egry -- Where did the postwar politics of memory lead to? / Maciej Górny -- "Hoch den Kaiser"!: The legitimist cause in early postwar Austria / Christopher Brennan -- Polish and Ukrainian propaganda of violence during and shortly after the war for Eastern Galicia (1918-1919) / Jagoda Wierzejska -- Ethnicization of anti-Bolshevism: a comparative analysis of anti-Semitic violence in Hungary and Ukraine (1919-1921) / Giuseppe Motta -- "Robbery and murder": conflicts at the Polish-Romanian border in the aftermath of the war / Elisabeth Haid -- Three nations at the crossroads: Poles, Jews and Lemkos Between 1918 and 1919 / Kamil Ruszała -- The formation of a new administrative and political apparatus in Slovakia, 1918-1920: backgrounds and networks / Etienne Boisserie -- Feldsberg/Valtice and the Lower Austrian towns that became Czech, 1918-1920 / Kathryn E. Densford -- Defending Christianity and social order in the aftermath of the First World War: discourse and polemics in the Austrian Catholic Conservative press / Konstantinos Raptis -- The denationalized children of Transylvania: the State Children's Asylum in Cluj after 1918 / Edina Gál -- The birth of Czechoslovakia between ideals and realpolitik: Masaryk, Beneš and Štefánik in balance between Italy and France on the international chessboard / Alessandro Volpato -- The Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church in 1918-1923: facing social and religious challenges / Iryna Orlevych -- The Greek Catholic parish clergy in liberation struggle of the Galician Ukrainians in 1918-1923 / Nataliia Kolb -- Serving science versus serving the country: university professors of Western neophilologies in Poland, 1918-1923 / Tomasz Pudłocki -- Stefan Surzycki's activities for Polish agriculture in the revived Polish state / Andrzej Synowiec -- Contributors -- Index.