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The old town of Lviv. Lviv (Ukrainian: Львів ⓘ, L’viv; Polish: Lwów; German: Lemberg or Leopoldstadt [citation needed] (archaic); Yiddish: לעמבערג; Russian: Львов, romanized: Lvov, see also other names) is an administrative center in western Ukraine with more than a millennium of history as a settlement, and over seven centuries as a city.
- 10 – 9. Different Views on The Soviet Union in 1941
- “Das Europaeische Russland Mit Den Angränzenden Ländern in Europa U. Asien“
- Map of Post Offices in The Russian Empire
- “Theatrum Belli Russorum Victoriis Illustratum […]”
- “Ukraine und Kaukasien 1918”
- “Taurica Chersonesus Nostra Aetate Przecopsca et Gazara Dicitur”
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Both of these maps of Russia were issued in Belgium in the same year. The first map was printed by the Brussels editing house De Rouck, which is well known for its maps, the second was published by the printing house Beyaert-Sioen in Kortrijk. Although both maps date from the year 1941 they paint a very different picture of the Soviet Union. The Br...
This map shows the 40 governorates or provinces (gubernia) of European Russia in the first half of the 19th century. The governorates have each received a number. On the top left we find the glossary. Number 27 points to Ukraine which is then a part of Little Russia. The present-day Ukraine covers several provinces, including 23, 26, 27, 29, 30, 31...
This map of post offices and routes allows a glance at the new borders of the Russian Empire following the Russo-Ottoman war of 1877-78. The map shows the distribution of post officesin the Russian Empire. The distances between the offices are indicated. Mail was delivered by horse, and both horse and rider had to be relieved at regular intervals, ...
Lotter Tobias Conrad (1717-1777) from Augsburg is the publisher of this map of the Ukrainian region. This edition dates from after 1757. As the title states, it is an exact depiction of the Turkish and Tatarian territories between the Niester and the Danube, and in the Crimea. This area is – still according to the title – the theatre of the war whi...
His linguistic map of 1918 shows the linguistic and therefore cultural unity of the young republic of Ukraine. It provides an overview of the languages spoken in the region around the Black Sea and indicates the new borders between the different countries in the region as they were decided by the signatories of the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk. The trea...
Gerard Mercator (1512-1594) is renowned for his atlas, which includes this map. The toponym Taurica Chersonesus refers to the Greek colony Chersonesos (which is Greek for peninsula) in Taurica, today the Crimea. The region on the mainland that borders on the peninsula bears the same name. The toponym Tartaria Przecopensis is also used. It refers to...
You can contact us via maproom@kbr.be. 1 S. Seegel,Mapping Europe’s Borderlands. Russian Cartography in the Age of Empire, Chicago-London, 2012.
Jan 24, 2020 · Abstract. This article examines the first published ethnographic map of Ukraine, which appeared in Lviv in 1861. While carefully analyzing new archival and published sources from both the Habsburg and Romanov empires, it puts this map into the wider context of a contemporary Ukrainian national movement. I argue that Russian Ukrainian activists ...
Aug 12, 2015 · The conflict in the east is also a product of history. Eastern Ukraine, including Kyiv, belonged to the Russian Empire before 1918 and became part of the Soviet Union in 1922. Galicia was never part of the Russian Empire, and its history within the Soviet Union was shorter than that of its eastern counterpart.
The most popular tourist attractions include the Old Town, and the Market Square (Ukrainian: Ploshcha Rynok) which is an 18,300 m 2 (196,980 sq ft) square in the city centre where the City Hall is situated, as well as the Black House (Ukrainian: Chorna Kamianytsia), Armenian Cathedral, the complex of the Dormition Church which is the main Orthodox church in the city; the St. Peter and Paul ...
Mar 7, 2022 · Today, Lviv is the largest city in the western part of Ukraine, and the seventh largest city overall in the country. With recent events between Ukraine and Russia, it bears looking at a city at the crossroads of Europe —even Eurasia, for the Mongols overran the settlement in 1261. Scholar Yaroslav Hrytsak does so in writing that, traditionally:
Feb 25, 2022 · Russian forces invaded Ukraine early on February 24, 2022, following an ominous yearlong military buildup and 30 years of Ukrainian independence after the Soviet Union fell apart in December 1991.
