''Gazeta Lwowska'' ( en, Lviv Gazette) is a

Polish language Polish (Polish: ''język polski'', , ''polszczyzna'' or simply ''polski'', ) is a West Slavic language of the Lechitic group written in the Latin script. It is spoken primarily in Poland and serves as the native language of the Poles. In a ...

biweekly magazine, published since 24 December 1990 in

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Ukraine. The publication refers to the traditions of a Polish language paper ''Gazeta Lwowska'', which was published between 1811 and 1944 and as such was one of the oldest Polish newspapers. Originally, ''Gazeta Lwowska'' was a press organ of the

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authorities of Galicia and it limited itself to publishing legal announcements. In 1873, when Władysław Łoziński became its

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, it began inserting local and world news, and since 1874, it published a monthly addition ''Przewodnik Naukowy i Literacki'' (''Scientific and Literary Guide''), dedicated to history, literature, geography, economics and ethnography. Among writers who cooperated with ''Gazeta Lwowska'', there were Adam Krechowiecki,

Ludwik Kubala Ludwik Kubala (9 September 1838 in Kamienica, Limanowa County, Kamienica - 30 September 1918 in Lviv, Lwów) was a Polish historian. Lived in Kraków and Lwów, fought in the January Uprising. In 1880-1881 he published a historical treaty that is ...

Karol Szajnocha Karol Szajnocha (1818–1868) was a Polish writer, historian, and independence activist. Self-taught, he would nonetheless become a notable Polish historian of the partitions period. Biography Karol Szajnocha was born as on 20 November 1818 in K ...

Józef Szujski Józef Szujski ( Tarnow, 16 June 1835 – Cracow, 7 February 1883) was a Polish politician, historian, poet and professor of the Jagiellonian University. Life He studied at Tarnow, then at Cracow (1854) and at Vienna (1858-9). He began his ...

, Alfred Wysocki,

Walery Łoziński Walery Władysław Daniel Łoziński (1880–1944) was a Polish geographer, geomorphologist and soil scientist known for introducing the concept of periglaciation into geomorphology in 1909. Łoziński extended the work of Swedish geologist Johan ...

. After 1918, when Lemberg was incorporated into the

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, ''Gazeta Lwowska'' was a local daily, popular in the

Lwów Voivodeship Lwów Voivodeship ( pl, Województwo lwowskie) was an administrative unit of interwar Poland (1918–1939). Because of the Nazi-Soviet invasion of Poland in accordance with the secret Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, it became occupied by both the Wehr ...

. Following the joint Nazi and Soviet annexation of Poland, the newspaper stopped publication. It re-established publication briefly from July 1941 to July 1944 during the period of German occupation as vehicle for Nazi

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. During German occupation, ''Gazeta Lwowska'' was very popular among readers, with the circulation reaching 90,000 in August 1943.Gazeta Lwowska in the years 1941-1944 by Grzegorz Hryciuk
/ref> Known as ''Lembergierka'', ''Gazeta Lwowska'' was liked by Polish readers, as it was not as rabidly anti-Polish like the previous, defunct, Soviet-sponsored '' Czerwony Sztandar'' (1939–1941). Its editors-in-chief were only Germans, such as Felix Rufenach and A.G. Lehmann. Among Polish employees, a significant number was informally connected with the

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. ''Gazeta Lwowskas street vendors organized a patriotic demonstration in Lwów, on 11 November 1943 (Polish independence day). On that day, several copies of the newspaper were stamped with a Polish Eagle, and with an inscription "Poland will triumph". ''Gazeta Lwowska'' returned on 24 December 1990 as a biweekly, published by the

Association of Polish Culture of the Lviv Land Association of the Polish Culture of the Lviv Land ( pl, Towarzystwo Kultury Polskiej Ziemi Lwowskiej, uk, Товариство польської культури Львівщини) is a Polish minority association, active in Lviv Oblast (provinc ...

(''Towarzystwo Kultury Polskiej Ziemi Lwowskiej'' - ''TKPZL'').

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