Jan 9, 2025 · Lviv, city, western Ukraine, on the Roztochchya Upland. Founded in the mid-13th century by Prince Daniel Romanovich of Galicia, Lviv has historically been the chief centre of …

With the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, Lviv became part of the newly independent Ukraine, serving as the capital of the Lviv Oblast. Today the city remains one of the most …

The Lviv Herald publishes a series of news, analysis and opinion pieces by a range of international and Ukrainian experts about life in wartime Ukraine and international policy …

Mar 21, 2022 · Lviv lies 550km west of the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv and its residents have been preparing for war for months. The strategic importance of their city cannot be overstated. As …

Lviv (/ l ə ˈ v iː v / lə-VEEV or / l ə ˈ v iː f / lə-VEEF; Ukrainian: Львів ⓘ; see below for other names) is the largest city in western Ukraine, as well as the sixth-largest city in Ukraine, with a …

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In medieval times the trade route connecting those seas passed through Lviv, which developed as a market town where merchants stopped to sell goods from the Near East and from the Baltic …

For seven centuries the crosscurrents of European culture shaped the city Ukrainians call Lviv, which is the subject of this collection of essays. For most of its history that city lay in the …

At the corner of Kotliarska and Shpytalna Str. one can notice a very special memorial plaque – the only one in Lviv that has a Yiddish text on it. It honors the house where the world-famous …

The text of the Lviv Chronicle was discovered in the beginning of 19th century by the Western Ukrainian Russophile historian Denis Zubrytsky. The manuscript of the Chronicle was kept at …