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Early history. Halych-Volyn Principality. Galicia–Volhynia wars and the Polish Kingdom. Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. Decline of the Commonwealth. Habsburg Era. 18th century. The early 19th century. The revolution of 1848. Developments in the mid-nineteenth century. The close of Habsburg rule. 20th century. Polish–Ukrainian conflict.
Habsburg Empire. 18th century map of Lemberg (Lviv, Lwów) In 1772, following the First Partition of Poland, the region was annexed by the Habsburg monarchy to the Austrian Partition. Known in German as Lemberg, the city became the capital of the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria. [51]
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First mentioned in 1256, Lviv arose at the intersection of important trade routes linking the Baltic with the Black Sea and Cracow with Kiev. It was named for Leo, son of Daniel, prince of Galician-Volhynian Rus', who founded the city in the mid-thirteenth century.
Austria changed the name of Lviv to Lemberg, and made it the capital of the Kingdom of Galicia. Austria contributed parks, cobble stone streets, and an opera house. Even after the collapse of Austria-Hungary, Lviv has remained a European city.
May 2, 2024 · The town was seized briefly by the Cossacks in 1648 and the Swedes in 1704. It was given to Austria on the first partition of Poland in 1772 and occupied by Russia in 1914–15. The government of the short-lived Western Ukrainian National Republic arose in Lviv in 1918, but the Poles drove Ukrainian troops out of the city and regained control.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Feb 1, 2015 · Lviv was founded to take advantage of major trade routes that crossed the area and also as a new military stronghold. However, in 1349 the city was captured by Poland (located just a few dozen miles away) and subsequently become the capital of the Ruthenian administrative division of the Polish Kingdom, which encompassed much of what is today eastern Ukraine.
In 1999 Lviv became a sort of capital of Central and Eastern Europe. It was the only city in the entire history of Ukraine to simultaneously receive the heads of nine states during the Summit of Heads of Eastern and Central European States.
