The
Polish name of a city known as
Lemberg in
German,
Lvov or
Lwow in
Russian and
Lviv,
Lwiw or
L'viv in
Ukrainian (depending on the
transcription).
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It was a Polish city until 1772, Austro-Hungarian until 1919, and Polish again until 1945, when the USSR shifted the Polish border back to the west, and the city became part of the Ukraine.
One of the major cities of Central Europe since the middle ages, Lwów wasn't left unscathed by the World Wars; today it is about 1/3 of the size it was a 100 years ago.