Lemberg (Lviv, Lwów) in 1915. In the Battle of Galicia at the early stages of the First World War, Lviv was captured by the Russian army in September 1914 following the Battle of Gnila Lipa. The Lemberg Fortress fell on 3 September.

In 1772, following the First Partition of Poland, the city was annexed by Austria and became the capital of the Austrian province called the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria as Lemberg, its Germanic name.

Lwiw (ukrainisch Львів ⓘ /? [lʲʋiu̯]), deutsch Lemberg (polnisch Lwów [lvuf], jiddisch לעמבערג YIVO Lemberg, armenisch Լվով [lvov], russisch Львов Lwow [lʲvɔf]), ist eine Stadt in Ostgalizien in der westlichen Ukraine mit etwa 730.000 Einwohnern. [1] .

The Battle of Lemberg (Lviv, Lwów) (in Polish historiography called obrona Lwowa, the Defense of Lwów [2]) took place from November 1918 to May 1919 and was a six-month long conflict in the region of Galicia following the dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

The focus of Polish and Ukrainian national movements, Lemberg saw rising nationalist and antisemitic tensions, which were fostered by an ever more precarious supply situation and led to a fraternal war at the end of World War I.

LVIV (Polish, Lw ó w; German, Lemberg; Russian, Lvov; Latin, Leopolis). 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.

In 1773 Lviv was ruled by Austria under the first partition of Poland until the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire in 1918. 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.

Apr 18, 2019 · In World War I Lemberg (German: Lemberg, Ukrainian: Lviv, Polish: Lwów) played an important role as a political and administrative center of Galicia and was of great strategic significance as one of the biggest garrisons of Austria-Hungary in the east.

Mar 14, 2015 · Known in German as Lemberg, the city became the capital of the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria. Lemberg grew dramatically under the Austrian rule, increasing in population from approximately 30,000 at the time of the Austrian annexation in 1772, to 206, 100 by 1910; while the poverty in Austrian Galicia was raging.

Jan 9, 2025 · Lviv, city, western Ukraine, on the Roztochchya Upland. Founded in the mid-13th century by Prince Daniel Romanovich of Galicia, Lviv has historically been the chief centre of Galicia, a region now divided between Ukraine and Poland. Its position controlling east-west routes and passes across the Carpathians has given it a stormy history.