Lwów

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Lwów is a historic city in Eastern Europe, now known as Lviv in western Ukraine, long recognized as a major cultural and political center of the region.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf city
historical city
country Ukraine
culturalTradition Austro-Hungarian urban culture
Jewish culture
Polish culture
Ukrainian culture
currentName Lwów self-linksurface differs
surface form: Lviv
event Soviet occupation of Eastern Poland
surface form: Soviet annexation of Eastern Poland (1939)

post–World War II population transfers
foundedBy Danylo of Halych
hasCulturalInstitution Lwów Opera (historical name of Lviv Theatre of Opera and Ballet)
hasHeritageStatus historic center inscribed as UNESCO World Heritage Site (as Lviv)
hasNameInLanguage Lwów self-linksurface differs
surface form: Lemberg (German)

Lwów self-linksurface differs
surface form: Lviv (Ukrainian)

Lwów self-linksurface differs
surface form: Lwów (Polish)

Lwów (historical English usage)
hasUniversity University of Lviv
surface form: University of Lwów (historical name of Lviv University)
historicalPopulationGroup Jews
Poles
Ukrainians
historicalRegion District of Galicia
surface form: Galicia

Kresy
surface form: Ruthenia
languageHistoricallySpoken German
Polish
Ukrainian
Yiddish
locatedIn Eastern Europe
Western Ukraine
namedAfter Leo I of Galicia
partOf Austrian Habsburg Monarchy
surface form: Austria-Hungary

Austrian Habsburg Monarchy
surface form: Austrian Empire

Austrian Habsburg Monarchy
surface form: Habsburg Monarchy

Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria
Second Polish Republic
surface form: Poland (interwar period)

Second Polish Republic
Soviet Union
Soviet Ukraine
surface form: Ukrainian SSR
religiousCenterFor Armenian Catholic Church
surface form: Armenian Catholic community (regional)

Roman Catholic Church (regional)
Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church
surface form: Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church (regional)
role major trade center (historically)
regional cultural center
regional political center
wasCapitalOf Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria
Kingdom of Galicia–Volhynia
Lwów Voivodeship
surface form: Lwów Voivodeship (Second Polish Republic)
wasOccupiedBy Nazi Germany
Soviet Union

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Curzon Line passesNear Lwów
this entity surface form: Lwów (Lviv)