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Lwów (ship)
''Lwów'' was the first officially registered Poland, Polish sailing-ship.promare.pl Launched in 1868 in Birkenhead, England, as frigate ''Chinsura'', from 1883 she was named ''Lucco''; then until 1920, ''Nest''. Since 1920 she was under the Polish Navy, Polish banner. Named ''Lwów'', after the Lwów, third biggest city of the Second Polish Republic, she cruised the whole world in the 1920s, being the first ship under Polish banner to have crossed the Equator, during a cruise to Brazil in 1923. She was also the first Polish training ship. Her notable captains included Mamert Stankiewicz. She was eventually replaced as the Polish training ship by the newer ''Dar Pomorza''. She was briefly used as a hulk (ship), hulk by Polish Navy; retired in 1938, and was scrapped soon afterwards in th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Lviv ( uk, Львів) is the largest city in Western Ukraine, western Ukraine, and the List of cities in Ukraine, seventh-largest in Ukraine, with a population of . It serves as the administrative centre of Lviv Oblast and Lviv Raion, and is one of the main Ukrainian culture, cultural centres of Ukraine. It was named in honour of Leo I of Galicia, Leo, the eldest son of Daniel of Galicia, Daniel, King of Ruthenia. Lviv emerged as the centre of the historical regions of Red Ruthenia and Galicia (Eastern Europe), Galicia in the 14th century, superseding Halych, Chełm, Belz and Przemyśl. It was the capital of the Kingdom of Galicia–Volhynia from 1272 to 1349, when it was conquered by King Casimir III the Great of Poland. From 1434, it was the regional capital of the Ruthenian Voivodeship in the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland, Kingdom of Poland. In 1772, after the First Partition of Poland, the city became the capital of the Habsburg Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria. In 1918, f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
