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Lviv (/ l ə ˈ v iː v /, / l ə ˈ v iː f / lə-VEEV, lə-VEEF; Ukrainian: Львів [ˈlʲʋiu̯] ⓘ; see below for other names) is the largest city in western Ukraine, as well as the sixth-largest city in Ukraine, with a population of 717,500 (2022 estimate).
Lwów Voivodeship (Polish: Województwo lwowskie) was an administrative unit of interwar Poland (1918–1939). Because of the Nazi- Soviet invasion of Poland in accordance with the secret Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact , it became occupied by both the Wehrmacht and the Red Army in September 1939.
As a part of Poland (and later Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth) the city was known as Lwów and became the capital of the Ruthenian Voivodeship, which included five regions: Lwów, Chełm (Ukrainian: Kholm), Sanok, Halicz (Ukrainian: Halych) and Przemyśl (Ukrainian: Peremyshl).
Lwów – Львів – לעמבערג – Lemberg. Founded in the mid-thirteenth century, Lwów was a city of many different nationalities and cultures. Some of the first settlers were Ruthenians, Poles and German, soon joined by Armenians, Jews, Greeks and even Italians.
In the second half of the nineteenth century Ruthenian national populists referred to the city as “Ľviv”; Russophiles designated the city “Ľvov.”. For Poles and Polonized Jews the town was “Lwów,” and for Germans as well as German- and Yiddish-speaking Jews the city was “Lemberg.”.
- Harald Binder
- 2003
In 1918, Lwów was still known as Lemberg, a city under the Habsburg administration, inhabited not only by Poles and Ukrainians, but also by – among others – Jews and Germans. What was their attitude to the Polish-Ukrainian conflict?
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May 29, 2003 · The Lvov-Warsaw School (LWS) was the most important movement in the history of Polish philosophy. It was established by Kazimierz Twardowski at the end of the 19 th century in Lvov (i.e., the Ukrainian city of Lviv, which at that time was part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire). The LWS flourished in the years 1918–1939.
