28/03/2024
Lviv (Ukrainian Lviv, [ˈʎʋiu̯], pronunciation about file) is a city in western Ukraine, the center of the Lviv region, Lviv district and Lviv city community, as well as the center of the Lviv agglomeration. A national cultural, educational and scientific center, a large industrial center, as well as a large transport hub, in the press it is called the capital of Galicia and Western Ukraine.
Lviv was founded by the Galician prince and king of Rus' Daniil Romanovich in the middle of the 13th century, presumably around 1256 it became the capital of the Galician-Volyn principality. After the first partition of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, from 1775 to 1918, the city was the capital of the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, formed by the Habsburgs, who considered themselves the successors of the kings of Rus' and bore the title of Kings of Galicia and Lodomeria. During the collapse of Austria-Hungary in 1918, it became the capital of the Western Ukrainian People's Republic, but following the results of the Polish-Ukrainian War it was annexed to Poland. In June-September 1941 it was the actual seat of the Ukrainian state government, organized after the proclamation of the Act of Restoration of the Ukrainian State during the Second World War.