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Lviv was officially founded in 1256 by King Daniel of Galicia in the Ruthenian principality of Halych-Volhynia and named in honour of his son Lev. [7] The toponym may best be translated into English as Leo's lands or Leo's City (hence the Latin name Leopolis ). In 1261, the city was invaded by the Tatars. [8]
Since the late 1980’s Lviv has become a center of activities for Ukrainian dissent, as well as a leading force in Ukraine’s movement to sovereignty and democracy. On August 24, 1991 the Supreme Council of Ukraine adopted a Declaration of Independence. Lviv is now a major economic and cultural center in Ukraine. Sources:
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Cycling is a new but growing mode of transport in Lviv. In 2011 the City of Lviv ratified an ambitious 9-year program for the set-up of cycling infrastructure – until the year 2019 an overall length of 270 km (168 mi) cycle lanes and tracks shall be realized. A working group formally organised within the City Council, bringing together ...
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:
It was named for Leo, son of Daniel, prince of Galician-Volhynian Rus', who founded the city in the mid-thirteenth century. In 1349 the principality was incorporated into the Polish crown under Casimir III the Great. Lviv became the capital of the Ruthenian palatinate in 1434. Casimir granted the city the Magdeburg law for municipal self ...
Jun 5, 2021 · Interwar Lviv under Poland. After WWI, Lviv become part of the Second Polish Commonwealth. Within a few years, in the early 1920s, Ignatius Drexler introduced a development project for the city called “Wielki Lwów” (Greater Lviv) — the aim of which was to expand the borders of Lviv through the annexation of suburban villages.
Our city became the main stronghold of the Orange Revolution in November-December 2004, when Ukraine was in the focus of attention of the entire world. Seventy percent of Lviv’s people took part in the actions aimed at defending the democracy in Lviv, and every third resident of the city stood his ground in Maidan Nezalezhnosti in Kyiv.
