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Lwów, the voivodeship's capital, was by far its biggest city, with the population of 318,000 (as of 1939). It was also the biggest city in south-eastern Poland and the third biggest city in the country (after Warsaw and Łódź), before Kraków (259,000).
Lviv is on the edge of the Roztochia Upland, about 70 kilometres (43 miles) east of the Polish border and 160 km (99 mi) north of the eastern Carpathian Mountains. The average altitude of Lviv is 296 metres (971 feet) above sea level. Its highest point is the Vysokyi Zamok ( High Castle ), 409 meters (1,342 feet) above sea level.
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The city of Lvov (L'viv) in southeastern Poland was occupied by the Soviet Union in 1939, under the terms of the German-Soviet Pact. There were over 200,000 Jews in Lvov in September 1939; nearly 100,000 were Jewish refugees from German-occupied Poland.
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 ).
Between World War I and World War II, the multiethnic city of Lwów was in eastern Poland and home to one of the country’s largest Jewish communities. Jews made up about one-third of Lwów’s population, numbering around 100,000 people on the eve of World War II.
Lwów (ukr. Львів, Lwiw) – miasto na Ukrainie, ośrodek administracyjny obwodu lwowskiego i rejonu lwowskiego. Lwów jest położony na pograniczu wschodniego Roztocza (Roztocze Lwowskie) i Wyżyny Podolskiej, nad rzeką Pełtwią. Jest ważnym ośrodkiem przemysłowym, węzłem lotniczym, kolejowym i drogowym.
For Poles, deprived of their own state after the partition of Poland by Russia, Prussia and Austria, Lwów became the cultural capital and cradle of national life. Here, within the university walls, future elites were educated, this is where the celebrities of art and culture were meeting, and among those gathering secretly underground, the ...
