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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.
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The Lviv Philharmonic is a major cultural centre with a long...
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History of Ukraine. 1256 - Lviv mentioned in the...
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The Ivan Franko National University of Lviv (Ukrainian:...
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The Lviv Philharmonic is a major cultural centre with a long history and traditions that complement Ukraine's entire culture. From the stage of Lviv Philharmonic began their way to the great art world-famous Ukrainian musicians Oleh Krysa , Oleksandr Slobodyanik, Yuriy Lysychenko, and Maria Chaikovska, as well as the younger musicians E ...
History of Ukraine. 1256 - Lviv mentioned in the Galician–Volhynian Chronicle. [1] 1272 - Leo I of Galicia relocates Galicia-Volhynia capital to Lviv from Halych (approximate date). [2] 1340 - Town taken by forces of Casimir III of Poland. [2] [3] 1356 - City granted Magdeburg rights.
Lviv's Old Town (Ukrainian: Старе Місто Львова, romanized: Stare Misto L’vova; Polish: Stare Miasto we Lwowie) is the historic centre of the city of Lviv, within the Lviv Oblast in Ukraine, recognized as a State Historic-Architectural Sanctuary in 1975.
A part of Scythia in antiquity, Ukraine was largely settled by Greuthungi, Getae, Goths, and Huns in the Migration Period, while southern parts of Ukraine were previously colonized by Greeks and then Romans. In the Early Middle Ages it was also a site of early Slavic expansion.
The Ivan Franko National University of Lviv (Ukrainian: Львівський національний університет імені Івана Франка, romanized: Lvivskyi natsionalnyi universytet imeni Ivana Franka) is a public university in Lviv, Ukraine.
It was under frequent attack: by Bohdan Khmelnytsky's Cossack armies in 1648 and 1655 and by Turkish and Tatar forces in 1672, 1675, 1691, and 1695. The greatest depredations came at the hands of the Swedes in 1704 during the Great Northern War.
