Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A city of west-central Ukraine near the Polish border. Founded in 1256, it was captured by Poland in 1349, ceded to Austria in 1772, retaken by Poland in 1918, and assigned to the USSR in 1945.
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- proper noun Alternative spelling of
Lviv .
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On September 8, the Security Service in Ukraine arrested Ruslan Zabilyi, a young historian and director of a museum in L'viv, a nationalistic pro-West, pro-democracy city in Ukraine near the border of Poland.
Andrea Chalupa: What Liberals Must Learn From Ukraine's Orange Revolution Andrea Chalupa 2010
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Mr. VOLODYMIR YANTSUR (Tour Guide, L'viv): (Foreign language spoken) GREENE: Volodymir Yantsur is a tour guide in L'viv, a city in western Ukraine, and he said this tradition began back in medieval times.
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On September 8, the Security Service in Ukraine arrested Ruslan Zabilyi, a young historian and director of a museum in L'viv, a nationalistic pro-West, pro-democracy city in Ukraine near the border of Poland.
Andrea Chalupa: What Liberals Must Learn From Ukraine's Orange Revolution Andrea Chalupa 2010
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Mr. VOLODYMIR YANTSUR (Tour Guide, L'viv): (Foreign language spoken) GREENE: Volodymir Yantsur is a tour guide in L'viv, a city in western Ukraine, and he said this tradition began back in medieval times.
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On September 8, the Security Service in Ukraine arrested Ruslan Zabilyi, a young historian and director of a museum in L'viv, a nationalistic pro-West, pro-democracy city in Ukraine near the border of Poland.
Andrea Chalupa: What Liberals Must Learn From Ukraine's Orange Revolution Andrea Chalupa 2010
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On September 8, the Security Service in Ukraine arrested Ruslan Zabilyi, a young historian and director of a museum in L'viv, a nationalistic pro-West, pro-democracy city in Ukraine near the border of Poland.
Andrea Chalupa: What Liberals Must Learn From Ukraine's Orange Revolution Andrea Chalupa 2010
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Born in 1920 in Lwow, Poland now L'viv, Ukraine, Władysław Dyda was in the part of Poland occupied by Stalin in September 1939.
Archive 2007-05-01 2007
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Ukranians have perfect right to call the city L'viv since it is Ukranian now administratively.
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Yes, I realize that L'vov now L'viv has had different names was it not Lemburg too under German control? as different powers governed it.
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Love the way Tatiana referred to L'viv the Russian way, as it's such a seat of Ukrainian nationalism.
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