Skorowidz wszystkich miejscowości położonych w Królestwie Galicyi i Lodomeryi wraz z Wielkiem Księstwem Krakowskiem z 1868 roku – charakterystyka źródła

Indexes of towns and villages in Galicia, published in the second half of the 19th and in the beginning of the 20th century, are an important source of information for studies on social and economic history of this period. In the index of 1868 all cadastre districts of Galicia were listed together with their dependant hamlets and colonies. Some additional information was included, such as district classification, county office affiliation, post office and parish affiliation, population (as of population census of 1857) as well as structure of land use including arable lands, meadows and gardens, pastures and forests, both for great landed and peasant properties with the associated tabular owner. The paper describes the respective data, presents information on their origin and provides a comparison with other available sources. Some possibilities of using the data from the index for further research on land use structure in Galicia were also presented. In the research, the borders of cadastral districts from the second military survey maps of Habsburg Empire (1:28,800) for Galicia (1861–1864) were used.