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In 1356 Casimir III imparted upon the city with Magdeburg rights, which implied that all city issues were to be resolved by a city council elected by the wealthy citizens. The city council seal of the 14th century stated Civitatis Lembvrgensis.
The total revenue of the city budget of Lviv for 2015 is set at about UAH 3.81 billion, which is 23% more than a year earlier (UAH 2.91 billion in 2014). As of 10 November 2017, the deputies of the Lviv City Council approved a budget in amount of UAH 5.4 billion ($204 million).
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On August 24, 1991 Lviv began a new era as the Supreme Council of Ukraine adopted a declaration of independence. Now, L'viv a major economic and cultural center on the Western region of independent Ukrainian state.
centuries. The city's population more than doubled from approximately 12,000 between 1572 and 1591 to 29,000 between 1592 and 1620. Nonetheless, com-pared with other more western cities in Europe during that period, Lviv re-mained only a middle-size city.31 Its development followed a general pattern of
Key dates in the history of Lviv. • 1256-1340 – Lviv belongs to Halych-Volynian kingdom. From the beginning of the 14th century until the second half of the 17th c. Lviv became the biggest city in the whole territory of Ukraine.
May 2, 2024 · 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.
At the same time, it would be an oversimplification to describe Lviv’s politics of memory as having been imposed by a city council, which resulted in an omni-directional construction of the Ukrainian image of the city with some regional variations.
