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Lwów (other)
Lwów is the Polish name for Lviv, Ukraine; a city formerly in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Lwów or Lwow may also refer to: Places * Lwów Ghetto, a German-Nazi ghetto * Lwów Land, an administrative unit of the Kingdom of Poland * Lwów Voivodeship, a voivodeship (province) of the Second Polish Republic, from 1918 to 1939 * Lwów Voivodeship (1944–1945), a voivodeship (province) of Poland from 1944 to 1945 * Lwówek Śląski, a town in the Lower Silesian Voivodeship * Haren, Germany, briefly known as ''Lwów'' in 1945, as part of the Polish occupation zone in Germany Other uses * ''Lwów'' (ship), an 1868 Polish sailing ship * Lwów Eaglets, a term of affection that is applied to the Polish child soldiers who defended the city of Lwów * Lwów Oath, an oath made on April 1, 1656 by Polish king John II Casimir * Lwów School of Mathematics, a group of Polish mathematicians *Aaron Moses Lwow, 18th century grammarian, scribe, and ''dayyan'' of Lemberg See also * Lwà ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lviv
Lviv ( or ; ; ; see #Names and symbols, below for other names) is the largest city in western Ukraine, as well as the List of cities in Ukraine, fifth-largest city 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. Lviv also hosts the administration of Lviv urban hromada. It was named after Leo I of Galicia, the eldest son of Daniel of Galicia, Daniel, King of Ruthenia. Lviv (then Lwów) 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 went to King Casimir III the Great of Kingdom of Poland, Poland in a Galicia–Volhynia Wars, war of succession. In 1356, Casimir the Great granted it town rights. From 1434, it was the regional capital of the Ruthenian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lwów Ghetto
The Lwów Ghetto (; ) was a Nazi ghetto in the city of Lwów (now Lviv, Ukraine) in the territory of Nazi-administered General Government in German-occupied Poland. The ghetto, set up in the second half of 1941, was liquidated in June 1943; all its inhabitants who survived prior killings were deported to the Bełżec extermination camp and the Janowska concentration camp. Background Lviv (Polish: Lwów) was a multicultural city just before World War II, with a population of 312,231. The city's 157,490 ethnic Poles constituted just over 50 percent of the population, with Jews at 32 percent (99,595) and Ukrainians at 16 percent (49,747). On 28 September 1939, after the joint Soviet-German invasion, the USSR and Germany signed the German–Soviet Frontier Treaty, which assigned about 200,000 km2 (77,000 sq mi) of Polish territory inhabited by 13.5 million people of all nationalities to the Soviet Union. Lviv was then annexed to the Soviet Union. At the t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lwów Land
Lwów Land (, , ) was an administrative unit (ziemia) of the Kingdom of Poland and the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth between 1340 and 1772. Its capital was Lwów. Regional Sejmiks for Lwów Land, Sanok Land and Przemyśl Land took place in Sadowa Wisznia. The legal system of the Land was based on the Magdeburg Law. Lwów Land, which was part of the Ruthenian Voivodeship, was divided into two counties - Lwów County and Żydaczów county. It sent six deputies to the Tribunal of the Crown of Poland and the land bordered Przemyśl Land and Sanok Sanok (in full the Royal Free City of Sanok — , , ''Sanok'', , ''Sianok'' or ''Sianik'', , , ''Sūnik'' or ''Sonik'') is a town in the Subcarpathian Voivodeship of southeastern Poland with 38,397 inhabitants, as of June 2016. Located on the San ... Land to the west, Belz Voivodeship to the north, and Halicz Land to the south. According to the 1676 royal report, in the Lwów Land there were 42 towns and 618 villages. Sources * L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lwów Voivodeship
Lwów Voivodeship () was an administrative unit of interwar Poland (1918–1939). Because of the Nazi invasion of Poland in accordance with the secret Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, it became occupied by both the Wehrmacht and the Red Army in September 1939. Following the conquest of Poland however, the Polish underground administration existed there until August 1944. Only around half of the Voivodeship was returned to Poland after the war ended. It was split diagonally just east of Przemyśl; with its eastern half, including Lwów itself, ceded to the Ukrainian SSR at the insistence of Joseph Stalin during the Tehran Conference confirmed (as not negotiable) at the Yalta Conference of 1945.Sylwester Fertacz (2005)"Krojenie mapy Polski: Bolesna granica" (Carving of Poland's map).Magazyn Społeczno-Kulturalny ''Śląsk.'' Retrieved from the Internet Archive on 5 June 2016. Population Voivodeship's capital, the biggest and its most important city was Lwów. It consisted of 27 powiat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lwów Voivodeship (1944–1945)
The Lwów Voivodeship was a short-lived voivodeship (province) of Poland, with capital in Rzeszów, that existed from 1944 to 1945. It was established on 22 August 1944,Ustawa z dnia 28 maja 1975 r. o dwustopniowym podziale administracyjnym Państwa oraz o zmianie ustawy o radach narodowych.' and until 28 June 1945, remained under the administration of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Poland,Paweł Wieczorkiewicz: ''Historia polityczna Polski 1935–1945'', Warsaw: Książka i Wiedza publishing house, 2005. ISBN 83-05-13441-5, p. 459. which then was replaced by the Provisional Government of National Unity.Aleksander Gella: ''Zagłada Drugiej Rzeczypospolitej 1945–1947'', Warsaw, 1998. It existed until 18 August 1945, when it was incorporated into then-established Rzeszów Voivodeship.Dekret z dnia 7 lipca 1945 r. o utworzeniu województwa rzeszowskiego.' History The Lwów Voivodeship was established on 22 August 1944, by the Provisional Government of the Republi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
