Lviv, the Glossary
Lviv (Львів; see below for other names) is the largest city in western Ukraine, as well as the sixth-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 cultural centres of Ukraine.[1]
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- 13th-century establishments in Europe
- Cities in Lviv Oblast
- Kingdom of Galicia–Volhynia
- Magdeburg rights
- Oblast centers in Ukraine
- World Heritage Sites in Ukraine
Aarhus Municipality
Aarhus Municipality (Aarhus Kommune), known as Århus Municipality (Århus Kommune) until 2011, is a kommune in the Central Denmark Region, on the east coast of the Jutland peninsula in central Denmark.
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Academy of Foreign Trade in Lwów
Academy of Foreign Trade in Lwów (Akademia Handlu Zagranicznego we Lwowie, AHZ) was one of four colleges in the city of Lwów in the interbellum period, when it belonged to the Second Polish Republic (now Lviv, Ukraine).
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Accessibility
Accessibility is the design of products, devices, services, vehicles, or environments so as to be usable by people with disabilities.
Act of restoration of the Ukrainian state
The act of restoration of the Ukrainian state (Акт відновлення Української Держави) or proclamation of the Ukrainian state of June 30, 1941, was announced by the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) under the leadership of Stepan Bandera, who declared an independent Ukrainian state in Lviv.
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Adam Mickiewicz
Adam Bernard Mickiewicz (24 December 179826 November 1855) was a Polish poet, dramatist, essayist, publicist, translator and political activist.
Adam Mickiewicz Monument, Lviv
The Adam Mickiewicz Monument, also known as the Adam Mickiewicz Column, (Polish: Kolumna Adama Mickiewicza we Lwowie, Ukrainian: Пам'ятник Адамові Міцкевичу), is a Neo-classical column commemorating the Polish Romantic poet Adam Mickiewicz (1798–1855) located at the Mickiewicz Square in the centre of Lviv, Ukraine, and opened in 1904.
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Aleksander Fredro
Aleksander Fredro (20 June 1793 – 15 July 1876) was a Polish poet, playwright and author active during Polish Romanticism in the period of partitions by neighboring empires. Lviv and Aleksander Fredro are Recipients of the Virtuti Militari.
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Aleksander Fredro Monument
The Aleksander Fredro Monument is a bronze statue located in Wrocław, Poland dedicated to Polish Romantic-era poet, playwright and author Aleksander Fredro.
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Aleksander Gierymski
Ignacy Aleksander Gierymski (30 January 1850, Warsaw – d. 6–8 March 1901, Rome) was a Polish painter of the late 19th century, the younger brother of Maksymilian Gierymski.
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Alexander Beliavsky
Alexander Genrikhovich Beliavsky (Олександр Генріхович Бєлявський, Aleksander Henrikovič Beljavski; also romanized Belyavsky; born December 17, 1953) is a Soviet, Ukrainian and Slovenian chess player.
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Alexander Yegorov (soldier)
Alexander Ilyich Yegorov or Egorov (Aleksandr Il'ich Yegórov) (– 23 February 1939) was a Soviet military leader and one of the original five Marshals of the Soviet Union.
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Allies of World War I
The Allies, the Entente or the Triple Entente was an international military coalition of countries led by France, the United Kingdom, Russia, the United States, Italy, and Japan against the Central Powers of Germany, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire, and Bulgaria in World War I (1914–1918).
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Andrei Volokitin
Andrei Volokitin (Андрій Волокітін, Andriy Volokitin; born 18 June 1986 in Lviv) is a Ukrainian chess grandmaster.
Andrey Sheptytsky National Museum of Lviv
The Andrey Sheptytsky National Museum of Lviv (Національний музей у Львові імені Андрея Шептицького) is one of Ukraine's largest museums, dedicated to Ukrainian culture in all its manifestations.
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Andriy Sadovyi
Andriy Ivanovych Sadovyi (Андрій Іванович Садовий; born 19 August 1968) is a Ukrainian politician and businessman who has served as the mayor of Lviv, the administrative centre of the Lviv Oblast of western Ukraine, since 2006.
Anna Muzychuk
Anna Olehivna Muzychuk (Анн́а Оле́гівна Музичу́к; Ana Muzičuk; born 28 February 1990) is a Ukrainian chess player who holds the title of Grandmaster (GM).
Antisemitism
Antisemitism (also spelled anti-semitism or anti-Semitism) is hostility to, prejudice towards, or discrimination against, Jews.
Antoni Brodowski
Antoni Stanisław Brodowski (26 December 1784, Warsaw – 31 March 1832, Warsaw) was a Polish painter in the Classical style.
Archaeology
Archaeology or archeology is the study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture.
Archbishop
In Christian denominations, an archbishop is a bishop of higher rank or office.
Architectural style
An architectural style is a classification of buildings (and nonbuilding structures) based on a set of characteristics and features, including overall appearance, arrangement of the components, method of construction, building materials used, form, size, structural design, and regional character.
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Architecture of Poland
The architecture of Poland includes modern and historical monuments of architectural and historical importance.
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Arena Lviv
Arena Lviv (Арена Львів) is a football stadium in Lviv, Ukraine.
Armenian Cathedral of Lviv
The Armenian Cathedral of the Assumption of Mary (Հայկական տաճար; translit; Katedra ormiańska) in Lviv, Ukraine is located in the city's Old Town, north of the market square.
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Armenian Catholic Archeparchy of Lviv
The Armenian Catholic Archeparchy of Lviv is a former, non-Metropolitan archeparchy (Eastern Catholic archdiocese) of the Armenian Catholic Church sui iuris (Armenian Rite).
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Armenian Catholic Church
The Armenian Catholic Church is an Eastern Catholic particular churches sui iuris of the Catholic Church.
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Armenians
Armenians (hayer) are an ethnic group and nation native to the Armenian highlands of West Asia.
Armenians in Poland
Armenians in Poland are one of nine legally recognized national minorities in Poland, their historical presence is going back to the Middle Ages.
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Army Sports Club Stadium (Lviv)
SKA Stadium is a multi-use stadium in Lviv, Ukraine.
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Art Deco
Art Deco, short for the French Arts décoratifs, is a style of visual arts, architecture, and product design, that first appeared in Paris in the 1910s (just before World War I), and flourished in the United States and Europe during the 1920s to early 1930s.
Art Nouveau
Art Nouveau is an international style of art, architecture, and applied art, especially the decorative arts.
Artur Grottger
Artur Grottger (11 November 1837 – 13 December 1867) was a Polish Romantic painter and graphic artist, one of the most prominent artists of the mid 19th century under the partitions of Poland, despite a life cut short by incurable illness.
Aryan
Aryan or Arya (Indo-Iranian arya) is a term originally used as an ethnocultural self-designation by Indo-Iranians in ancient times, in contrast to the nearby outsiders known as 'non-Aryan' (an-arya).
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Ashkenazi Jews
Ashkenazi Jews (translit,; Ashkenazishe Yidn), also known as Ashkenazic Jews or Ashkenazim, constitute a Jewish diaspora population that emerged in the Holy Roman Empire around the end of the first millennium CE. They traditionally spoke Yiddish and largely migrated towards northern and eastern Europe during the late Middle Ages due to persecution.
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players each, who primarily use their feet to propel a ball around a rectangular field called a pitch.
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Association of Poles "White Eagle"
The Association of Poles “White Eagle”, or Związek Polaków „Orzeł Biały”, «Союз Поляків «Білий Орел», is an association of the Poles in Ukraine (see also Polonia), founded on June 6, 2011 in Lviv.
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Association of Polish Culture of the Lviv Land
Association of the Polish Culture of the Lviv Land (Towarzystwo Kultury Polskiej Ziemi Lwowskiej, Товариство польської культури Львівщини) is a Polish minority association, active in Lviv Oblast (province) of western Ukraine.
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Atheism
Atheism, in the broadest sense, is an absence of belief in the existence of deities.
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Austria-Hungary
Austria-Hungary, often referred to as the Austro-Hungarian Empire or the Dual Monarchy, was a multi-national constitutional monarchy in Central Europe between 1867 and 1918.
Austrian Empire
The Austrian Empire, officially known as the Empire of Austria, was a multinational European great power from 1804 to 1867, created by proclamation out of the realms of the Habsburgs.
Austrian Partition
The Austrian Partition (zabór austriacki) comprises the former territories of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth acquired by the Habsburg monarchy during the Partitions of Poland in the late 18th century.
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Austro-Hungarian Army
The Austro-Hungarian Army, also known as the Imperial and Royal Army,lit; lit was the principal ground force of Austria-Hungary from 1867 to 1918.
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Austro-Hungarian Compromise of 1867
The Austro-Hungarian Compromise of 1867 (Ausgleich, Kiegyezés) established the dual monarchy of Austria-Hungary, which was a military and diplomatic alliance of two sovereign states.
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Avant-garde
In the arts and in literature, the term avant-garde (from French meaning advance guard and vanguard) identifies an experimental genre, or work of art, and the artist who created it; which usually is aesthetically innovative, whilst initially being ideologically unacceptable to the artistic establishment of the time.
Axis powers
The Axis powers, originally called the Rome–Berlin Axis and also Rome–Berlin–Tokyo Axis, was a military coalition that initiated World War II and fought against the Allies.
Łódź
Łódź is a city in central Poland and a former industrial centre. Lviv and Łódź are magdeburg rights.
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Banja Luka
Banja Luka (Бања Лука) or Banjaluka (Бањалука) is the second largest city in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the largest city of Republika Srpska, of which it is also the de facto capital.
Baroque
The Baroque is a Western style of architecture, music, dance, painting, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished from the early 17th century until the 1750s.
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Baroque architecture
Baroque architecture is a highly decorative and theatrical style which appeared in Italy in the early 17th century and gradually spread across Europe.
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Batiar
Batiar (batiar, baciar; batiar), a popular name for a certain class of inhabitants of city of Lviv.
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Battle of Galicia
The Battle of Galicia, also known as the Great Battle of Galicia, was a major battle between Russia and Austria-Hungary during the early stages of World War I in 1914.
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Battle of Gnila Lipa
The Battle of Gnila Lipa took place in early World War I on 29–30 August 1914, when the Imperial Russian Army invaded Galicia and engaged the defending Austro-Hungarian Army.
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Battle of Lwów (1675)
Battle of Lwów or Battle of Lesienice or Battle of Lviv refers to a battle between the armies of Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and Ottoman Empire that took place near the city of Lwów (Lviv, western Ukraine) on August 24, 1675.
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Battle of Lwów (1920)
During the Polish-Soviet War of 1920 the city of Lwów (modern Lviv, Ukraine) was attacked by the forces of Alexander Ilyich Yegorov.
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Batu Khan
Batu Khan (–1255) was a Mongol ruler and founder of the Golden Horde, a constituent of the Mongol Empire.
Będzie lepiej
Będzie lepiej (English: It will get better) is a 1936 Polish musical comedy directed by Michał Waszyński.
BBC News
BBC News is an operational business division of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs in the UK and around the world.
Belarusians
Belarusians (biełarusy) are an East Slavic ethnic group native to Belarus.
Belle Époque
The Belle Époque or La Belle Époque was a period of French and European history that began after the end of the Franco-Prussian War in 1871 and continued until the outbreak of World War I in 1914.
Belz
Belz (Белз; Bełz; בעלז) is a small city in Lviv Oblast, western Ukraine, located near the border with Poland between the Solokiya river (a tributary of the Bug River) and the Richytsia stream. Lviv and Belz are cities in Lviv Oblast and Holocaust locations in Ukraine.
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Belzec extermination camp
Belzec (English: or, Polish) was a Nazi German extermination camp in occupied Poland.
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Bernardine Church, Lviv
The Bernardine church and monastery in Lviv, Ukraine, is located in the city's Old Town, south of the market square.
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Bicycle-sharing system
A bicycle-sharing system, bike share program, public bicycle scheme, or public bike share (PBS) scheme, is a shared transport service where bicycles are available for shared use by individuals at low cost.
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Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi
Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi (Білгород-Дністровський,; Cetatea Albă; Belgorod-Dnestrovskiy), historically known as Aq Kirmān (Akkerman) or by other names, is a port city in Odesa Oblast, southwestern Ukraine. Lviv and Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi are Holocaust locations in Ukraine.
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Birth rate
Birth rate, also known as natality, is the total number of live human births per 1,000 population for a given period divided by the length of the period in years.
Black House, Lviv
The Black House (Чорна кам'яниця,; Kamienica) is a remarkable Renaissance building on the Market Square in the city of Lviv, Ukraine.
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Black Sea
The Black Sea is a marginal mediterranean sea lying between Europe and Asia, east of the Balkans, south of the East European Plain, west of the Caucasus, and north of Anatolia.
Blue Army (Poland)
The Blue Army (Polish: Błękitna Armia; French: Armée bleue), or Haller's Army, was a Polish military contingent created in France during the latter stages of World War I. The name came from the French-issued blue military uniforms worn by the soldiers.
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Blue Moon (2002 film)
Blue Moon is an Austrian movie written and directed by Andrea Maria Dusl in 2002.
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Bohdan Khmelnytsky
Bohdan Zynoviy Mykhailovych Khmelnytsky (Ruthenian: Ѕѣнові Богданъ Хмелнiцкiи; modern Богдан Зиновій Михайлович Хмельницький, Polish: Bohdan Chmielnicki; 15956 August 1657) was a Ruthenian nobleman and military commander of Ukrainian Cossacks as Hetman of the Zaporozhian Host, which was then under the suzerainty of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
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Boim Chapel
The Boim Chapel (Капли́ця Боїмів, Kaplica Boimów) is a monument of religious architecture in Cathedral Square, Lviv, Ukraine.
Bolesław Limanowski
Bolesław Limanowski (18 October 1835 – 15 February 1935) was a Polish socialist politician, as well as historian and journalist and advocate of Agrarianism.
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Bolsheviks
The Bolsheviks (italic,; from большинство,, 'majority'), led by Vladimir Lenin, were a far-left faction of the Marxist Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) which split with the Mensheviks at the Second Party Congress in 1903.
Boroldai
Boroldai (or Burulday, Borolday), also known as Burundai, (Cyrillic: Боролдай) (died 1262) was a notable Mongol general of the mid 13th century.
Borys Voznytsky Lviv National Art Gallery
Borys Voznytsky Lviv National Art Gallery (Львівська Національна Галерея Мистецтв імені Бориса Возницького.) is the largest art museum in Ukraine, with over 62,000 artworks in its collection, including works of Ukrainian, Polish, Italian, French, German, Dutch and Flemish, Spanish, Austrian and other European artists.
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Briukhovychi
Briukhovychi is a rural settlement in Lviv Raion, Lviv Oblast, Ukraine.
Bruno Schulz
Bruno Schulz (12 July 1892 – 19 November 1942) was a Polish Jewish writer, fine artist, literary critic and art teacher.
Bucharest
Bucharest (București) is the capital and largest city of Romania.
Budapest
Budapest is the capital and most populous city of Hungary.
Buran (spacecraft)
Buran (Буран,, meaning "Snowstorm" or "Blizzard"; GRAU index serial number: 11F35 1K, construction number: 1.01) was the first spaceplane to be produced as part of the Soviet/Russian Buran program.
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Bus network
A bus network is a network topology in which nodes are directly connected to a common half-duplex link called a bus.
Business
Business is the practice of making one's living or making money by producing or buying and selling products (such as goods and services).
Byzantine Empire
The Byzantine Empire, also referred to as the Eastern Roman Empire, was the continuation of the Roman Empire centered in Constantinople during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages.
Cabaret
Cabaret is a form of theatrical entertainment featuring music, song, dance, recitation, or drama.
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Cambridge University Press
Cambridge University Press is the university press of the University of Cambridge.
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Cannes
Cannes (Canas) is a city located on the French Riviera.
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Carpathian Mountains
The Carpathian Mountains or Carpathians are a range of mountains forming an arc across Central Europe and Southeast Europe.
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Casimir III the Great
Casimir III the Great (Kazimierz III Wielki; 30 April 1310 – 5 November 1370) reigned as the King of Poland from 1333 to 1370.
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Cathedral Basilica of the Assumption, Lviv
The Archcathedral Basilica of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Архикатедральна Базиліка Пресвятої Діви Марії; Bazylika Archikateldralna Najświętszej Maryi Panny), usually called simply the Latin Cathedral (Лати́нський собо́р, Katedra Łacińska) is a 14th-century Roman Catholic cathedral in Lviv, western Ukraine.
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Catholic Church
The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.28 to 1.39 billion baptized Catholics worldwide as of 2024.
Catholic particular churches and liturgical rites
A particular church (ecclesia particularis) is an ecclesiastical community of followers headed by a bishop (or equivalent), as defined by Catholic canon law and ecclesiology.
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Catholicisation
Catholicisation refers mainly to the conversion of adherents of other religions into Catholicism, and the system of expanding Catholic influence in politics.
CD-ROM
A CD-ROM (compact disc read-only memory) is a type of read-only memory consisting of a pre-pressed optical compact disc that contains data computers can read—but not write or erase—CD-ROMs.
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Cell biology
Cell biology (also cellular biology or cytology) is a branch of biology that studies the structure, function, and behavior of cells.
Cemetery of the Defenders of Lwów
The Cemetery of the Defenders of Lwów (Cmentarz Obrońców Lwowa, Cmentarz Orląt, Cemetery of Eaglets, Orlat Cemetery) is a memorial and a burial place for the Poles and their allies who died in Lwów (Lviv) during the hostilities of the Polish-Ukrainian War and Polish-Soviet War between 1918 and 1920.
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Central Europe
Central Europe is a geographical region of Europe between Eastern, Southern, Western and Northern Europe.
Cession
The act of cession is the assignment of property to another entity.
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Charles Scribner's Sons
Charles Scribner's Sons, or simply Scribner's or Scribner, is an American publisher based in New York City, known for publishing American authors including Henry James, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Kurt Vonnegut, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Stephen King, Robert A. Heinlein, Thomas Wolfe, George Santayana, John Clellon Holmes, Don DeLillo, and Edith Wharton.
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Charles XII of Sweden
Charles XII, sometimes Carl XII (Karl XII) or Carolus Rex (17 June 1682 – 30 November 1718 O.S.), was King of Sweden (including current Finland) from 1697 to 1718.
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Chełm
Chełm (Kholm; Cholm; Khelm) is a city in southeastern Poland with 60,231 inhabitants as of December 2021.
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Chengdu
Chengdu is the capital city of the Chinese province of Sichuan.
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Church of Sts. Olha and Elizabeth, Lviv
The Church of Sts.
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Church Slavonic
Church Slavonic is the conservative Slavic liturgical language used by the Eastern Orthodox Church in Belarus, Bulgaria, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Poland, Ukraine, Russia, Serbia, the Czech Republic and Slovakia, Slovenia and Croatia.
Cinema of the Soviet Union
The cinema of the Soviet Union includes films produced by the constituent republics of the Soviet Union reflecting elements of their pre-Soviet culture, language and history, albeit they were all regulated by the central government in Moscow.
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City of regional significance (Ukraine)
A city of regional significance (misto oblasnoho znachennia) in Ukraine was a type of second-level administrative division or municipality, the other type being raions (districts). Lviv and city of regional significance (Ukraine) are cities of regional significance in Ukraine.
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Civil disobedience
Civil disobedience is the active, and professed refusal of a citizen to obey certain laws, demands, orders or commands of a government (or any other authority).
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Classical architecture
Classical architecture usually denotes architecture which is more or less consciously derived from the principles of Greek and Roman architecture of classical antiquity, or sometimes more specifically, from De architectura (c. 10 AD) by the Roman architect Vitruvius.
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Classical music
Classical music generally refers to the art music of the Western world, considered to be distinct from Western folk music or popular music traditions.
Coat of arms
A coat of arms is a heraldic visual design on an escutcheon (i.e., shield), surcoat, or tabard (the last two being outer garments).
Collateral damage
"Collateral damage" is a term for any incidental and undesired death, injury or other damage inflicted, especially on civilians, as the result of an activity.
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Condensed matter physics
Condensed matter physics is the field of physics that deals with the macroscopic and microscopic physical properties of matter, especially the solid and liquid phases, that arise from electromagnetic forces between atoms and electrons.
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Conference of Ambassadors
The Conference of Ambassadors of the Principal Allied and Associated Powers was an inter-allied organization of the Entente in the period following the end of World War I. Formed in Paris in January 1920 it became a successor of the Supreme War Council and was later on de facto incorporated into the League of Nations as one of its governing bodies.
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Corning, New York
Corning is a city in Steuben County, New York, United States, on the Chemung River.
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Crimean Karaites
The Crimean Karaites or Krymkaraylar (Crimean Karaim: Кърымкъарайлар, Qrımqaraylar, singular къарай, qaray; Trakai dialect: karajlar, singular karaj; קראי מזרח אירופה; Qaraylar), also known as Karaims and Qarays, are an ethnicity of Turkic-speaking adherents of Karaite Judaism in Central and Eastern Europe, especially in the territory of the old Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and Crimea.
Crimean Tatars
Crimean Tatars or Crimeans are a Turkic ethnic group and nation native to Crimea.
Crown of the Kingdom of Poland
The Crown of the Kingdom of Poland (Korona Królestwa Polskiego; Corona Regni Poloniae) was a political and legal idea formed in the 14th century, assuming unity, indivisibility and continuity of the state.
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Cubism
Cubism is an early-20th-century avant-garde art movement begun in Paris that revolutionized painting and the visual arts, and influenced artistic innovations in music, ballet, literature, and architecture.
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Cultural assimilation
Cultural assimilation is the process in which a minority group or culture comes to resemble a society's majority group or assimilates the values, behaviors, and beliefs of another group whether fully or partially.
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Culture of Ukraine
The culture of Ukraine is composed of the material and spiritual values of the Ukrainian people that has formed throughout the history of Ukraine.
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Curzon Line
The Curzon Line was a proposed demarcation line between the Second Polish Republic and the Soviet Union, two new states emerging after World War I. Based on a suggestion by Herbert James Paton, it was first proposed in 1919 by Lord Curzon, the British Foreign Secretary, to the Supreme War Council as a diplomatic basis for a future border agreement.
Cycling infrastructure
Cycling infrastructure is all infrastructure cyclists are allowed to use.
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Cyprus
Cyprus, officially the Republic of Cyprus, is an island country in the eastern Mediterranean Sea.
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Czarni Lwów
Czarni Lwów was one of the first Polish professional sports clubs with the well developed football section as well as ice hockey among the several other sports.
Czerwony Sztandar (Lviv newspaper)
Czerwony Sztandar (Red Banner) was a Polish language daily newspaper, published by the Soviet occupation authorities in the city of Lwów (Lviv, Ukraine), between 5 October 1939 and June 1941, and then again between 1944 and 1950.
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D'Artagnan and Three Musketeers
D'Artagnan and Three Musketeers (Д'Артаньян и три мушкетёра, D'Artanyan i tri mushketyora) is a three-part swashbuckler musical miniseries produced in the Soviet Union and first aired in 1978.
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Daniel of Galicia
Daniel Romanovich (1201–1264) was Prince of Galicia (1205–1207; 1211–1212; 1230–1232; 1233–1234; 1238–1264), Volhynia (1205–1208; 1215–1238), Grand Prince of Kiev (1240), and King of Ruthenia (1253–1264).
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Debora Vogel
Debora Vogel (1900–1942) was a philosopher and poet who published work in Yiddish and Polish.
Declaration of Independence of Ukraine
The Act of Declaration of Independence of Ukraine (Akt proholoshennia nezalezhnosti Ukrainy) was adopted by the Supreme Soviet of the Ukrainian SSR on 24 August 1991.
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Defensive wall
A defensive wall is a fortification usually used to protect a city, town or other settlement from potential aggressors.
Deluge (history)
The Deluge (potop szwedzki; švedų tvanas) was a series of mid-17th-century military campaigns in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
Demographics of Ukraine
According to the United Nations, Ukraine has a population of 36,744,636 as of 2023.
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Demonym
A demonym or gentilic is a word that identifies a group of people (inhabitants, residents, natives) in relation to a particular place.
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Diet of Galicia and Lodomeria
The Diet of the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, and of the Grand Duchy of Cracow was the regional assembly of the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, a crown land of the Austrian Empire, and later Austria-Hungary.
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Dissolution of Austria-Hungary
The dissolution of Austria-Hungary was a major geopolitical event that occurred as a result of the growth of internal social contradictions and the separation of different parts of Austria-Hungary.
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Dissolution of the Soviet Union
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was formally dissolved as a sovereign state and subject of international law on 26 December 1991 by Declaration № 142-Н of the Soviet of the Republics of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union.
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District of Galicia
The District of Galicia (Distrikt Galizien, Dystrykt Galicja, Дистрикт Галичина) was a World War II administrative unit of the General Government created by Nazi Germany on 1 August 1941 after the start of Operation Barbarossa, based loosely within the borders of the ancient Principality of Galicia and the more recent Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria.
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Dmytro Dedko
Dmytro Dedko (Demetrius Dedko, Дмитро Дедько) was a Lord of Ruthenia in 1340 (1323) – 1349.
Dnipro
Dnipro is Ukraine's fourth-largest city, with about one million inhabitants. Lviv and Dnipro are cities of regional significance in Ukraine and oblast centers in Ukraine.
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Dominican Church, Lviv
The Dominican Church and Monastery (translit, Kościół i klasztor Dominikanów we Lwowie) in Lviv, Ukraine is located in the city's Old Town, east of the market square.
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Dormition Church, Lviv
The Dormition or Assumption Church (Успенська церква, Uspenska tserkva; historically known as the "Wallachian Church") is a Ukrainian Orthodox church in the city of Lviv, Ukraine.
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Drohobych
Drohobych (Дрогобич,; Drohobycz; drohobitsh) is a city in the south of Lviv Oblast, Ukraine. Lviv and Drohobych are cities in Lviv Oblast, cities of regional significance in Ukraine, Holocaust locations in Ukraine and Ruthenian Voivodeship.
Dublany, Podlaskie Voivodeship
Dublany is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Michałowo, within Białystok County, Podlaskie Voivodeship, in north-eastern Poland, close to the border with Belarus.
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Dzyga Art Center
The Dzyga Art Center is an artistic association, gallery, theater and concert facility in Lviv, Ukraine.
Early modern period
The early modern period is a historical period that is part of the modern period based primarily on the history of Europe and the broader concept of modernity.
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Eastern Europe
Eastern Europe is a subregion of the European continent.
Eastern European Summer Time
Eastern European Summer Time (EEST) is one of the names of the UTC+03:00 time zone, which is 3 hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time.
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Eastern European Time
Eastern European Time (EET) is one of the names of UTC+02:00 time zone, 2 hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time.
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Eastern Galicia
Eastern Galicia (Skhidna Halychyna; Galicja Wschodnia; Ostgalizien) is a geographical region in Western Ukraine (present day oblasts of Lviv, Ivano-Frankivsk and Ternopil), having also essential historic importance in Poland.
Eastern Orthodox Church
The Eastern Orthodox Church, officially the Orthodox Catholic Church, and also called the Greek Orthodox Church or simply the Orthodox Church, is the second-largest Christian church, with approximately 230 million baptised members.
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Eastern Orthodoxy
Eastern Orthodoxy, otherwise known as Eastern Orthodox Christianity or Byzantine Christianity, is one of the three main branches of Chalcedonian Christianity, alongside Catholicism and Protestantism.
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Eastern Trade Fair
The Eastern Trade Fair or Targi Wschodnie in Polish was a major trade fair in interbellum Poland.
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Economy of Ukraine
The economy of Ukraine is an emerging, upper-middle income, mixed economy located in Eastern Europe.
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Education
Education is the transmission of knowledge, skills, and character traits and manifests in various forms.
Electric bus
An electric bus is a bus that is propelled using electric motors, as opposed to a conventional internal combustion engine.
Electric light
An electric light, lamp, or light bulb is an electrical component that produces light.
Electric vehicle
An electric vehicle (EV) is a vehicle that uses one or more electric motors for propulsion.
Electronics
Electronics is a scientific and engineering discipline that studies and applies the principles of physics to design, create, and operate devices that manipulate electrons and other electrically charged particles.
Eliza Orzeszkowa
Eliza Orzeszkowa (6 June 184118 May 1910) was a Polish novelist and a leading writer, Britannica, Retrieved 5 June 2016.
Emanuel Schlechter
Emanuel Schlechter (pseudonyms Eman, Olgierd Lech) (Emanuel Szlechter) (9 October 1904 – 1943) was born and died in Lwów.
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Emigration
Emigration is the act of leaving a resident country or place of residence with the intent to settle elsewhere (to permanently leave a country).
Enzym Group
Enzym Group is a biotech company in Eastern Europe specializing in developing and producing products based on yeast cell.
Episcopal see
An episcopal see is, the area of a bishop's ecclesiastical jurisdiction.
Etnovyr
Etnovyr (Етновир) is the annual International Folklore Festival that has taken place in Lviv on the eve of Ukraine Independence Day since 2008 under the auspices of International Council of Organizations of Folklore Festivals and Traditional Arts (CIOFF) under UNESCO and is organised by Non-governmental organization "Etnovyr" and Event Management Company.
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Euromaidan
Euromaidan (translit), or the Maidan Uprising, was a wave of demonstrations and civil unrest in Ukraine, which began on 21 November 2013 with large protests in Maidan Nezalezhnosti (Independence Square) in Kyiv.
European Mobility Week
European Mobility Week (shortened as EMW) is an annual initiative of the European Commission for Sustainable Urban Mobility since 2002.
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Eurovision Song Contest 2004
The Eurovision Song Contest 2004 was the 49th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest.
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Everything Is Illuminated
Everything Is Illuminated is the first novel by the American writer Jonathan Safran Foer, published in 2002.
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Expres
Expres (Експрес, also transliterated Ekspres or Express) is a Ukrainian language Lviv-based, daily broadsheet newspaper founded in 1992.
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FC Karpaty Lviv
Football Club Karpaty Lviv is a Ukrainian professional football club based in Lviv.
FC Lviv
FC Lviv (ФК «Львів») is a Ukrainian professional football club from the city of Lviv.
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FC Rukh Lviv
FC Rukh Lviv (ФК «Рух» Львів) is a Ukrainian professional football club based in Lviv.
FC Shakhtar Donetsk
Football Club Shakhtar Donetsk also known as FC Shakhter Donetsk (Футбольний клуб Шахтар Донецьк,, short nickname "miners"), is a Ukrainian professional football club from the city of Donetsk.
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Fertility
Fertility in colloquial terms refers the ability to have offspring.
First Partition of Poland
The First Partition of Poland took place in 1772 as the first of three partitions that eventually ended the existence of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth by 1795.
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Flag of Poland
The national flag of Poland (flaga Polski) consists of two horizontal stripes of equal width, the upper one white and the lower one red.
Frankivskyi District
Frankívs’kyj District (Франкі́вський райо́н) is an urban district in the city of Lviv, named after the Ukrainian writer and social activist Ivan Franko.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
Franklin Delano Roosevelt (January 30, 1882April 12, 1945), commonly known by his initials FDR, was an American politician who served as the 32nd president of the United States from 1933 until his death in 1945.
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Franz Doppler
Albert Franz Doppler (16 October 182127 July 1883) was a flute virtuoso and a composer best known for his flute music.
Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart
Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart (26 July 1791 – 29 July 1844), also known as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Jr., was the youngest child of six born to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and his wife Constanze and the younger of his parents' two surviving children.
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Freiburg im Breisgau
Freiburg im Breisgau (Alemannic: Friburg im Brisgau; Fribourg-en-Brisgau; Freecastle in the Breisgau; mostly called simply Freiburg) is the fourth-largest city of the German state of Baden-Württemberg after Stuttgart, Mannheim and Karlsruhe.
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Functional analysis
Functional analysis is a branch of mathematical analysis, the core of which is formed by the study of vector spaces endowed with some kind of limit-related structure (for example, inner product, norm, or topology) and the linear functions defined on these spaces and suitably respecting these structures.
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Futurism
Futurism (Futurismo) was an artistic and social movement that originated in Italy, and to a lesser extent in other countries, in the early 20th century.
Gabriela Zapolska
Maria Gabriela Stefania Korwin-Piotrowska (1857–1921), known as Gabriela Zapolska, was a Polish novelist, playwright, naturalist writer, feuilletonist, theatre critic and stage actress.
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Galicia (Eastern Europe)
Galicia (. Collins English Dictionary Galicja,; translit,; Galitsye) is a historical and geographic region spanning what is now southeastern Poland and western Ukraine, long part of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. Lviv and Galicia (Eastern Europe) are historic Jewish communities and kingdom of Galicia–Volhynia.
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Galicia–Volhynia Wars
The Galicia–Volhynia Wars were several wars fought in the years 1340–1392 over the succession in the Kingdom of Galicia–Volhynia, also known as Ruthenia. Lviv and Galicia–Volhynia Wars are kingdom of Galicia–Volhynia.
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Galician school (architecture)
Galician school is a style of Kievan Rus' and Romanesque architecture that developed on the territory of Ciscarpathia during the reign of Rostislavichi of Galicia. Lviv and Galician school (architecture) are kingdom of Galicia–Volhynia.
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Galician–Volhynian Chronicle
The Galician–Volhynian Chronicle (GVC) (Halycjko-Volynsjkyj litopys, called "Halicz-Wolyn Chronicle" in Polish historiography), also known as Chronicle of Halych–Volhynia and The Dynastic Chronicle of the Romanovichi, is a prominent work of Old Ruthenian literature and historiographyKotlyar, M..
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Gas lighting
Gas lighting is the production of artificial light from combustion of a fuel gas such as methane, propane, butane, acetylene, ethylene, hydrogen, carbon monoxide, coal gas (town gas) or natural gas.
Gazeta Lwowska
(Lviv Gazette) is a Polish language biweekly magazine, published since 24 December 1990 in Lviv Ukraine.
Gdańsk
Gdańsk is a city on the Baltic coast of northern Poland, and the capital of the Pomeranian Voivodeship.
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General Government
The General Government (Generalgouvernement; Generalne Gubernatorstwo; Генеральна губернія), formally the General Governorate for the Occupied Polish Region (Generalgouvernement für die besetzten polnischen Gebiete), was a German zone of occupation established after the invasion of Poland by Nazi Germany, Slovakia and the Soviet Union in 1939 at the onset of World War II.
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General National Exhibition in Lviv
The General National Exhibition in Lviv (Polish: Powszechna Wystawa Krajowa we Lwowie) was a national exposition held in 1894 in the city of Lviv (Polish: Lwów) on the centenary of the Kościuszko Uprising.
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Geographical distribution of Ukrainian speakers
A Ukrainophone (українськомовний, ukrainskomovnyi) is a person who speaks the Ukrainian language either natively or by preference.
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German Army (1935–1945)
The German Army (Heer) was the land forces component of the Wehrmacht, the regular armed forces of Nazi Germany, from 1935 until it effectively ceased to exist in 1945 and then was formally dissolved in August 1946.
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German language
German (Standard High German: Deutsch) is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, mainly spoken in Western and Central Europe. It is the most widely spoken and official or co-official language in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, and the Italian province of South Tyrol.
German–Soviet Boundary and Friendship Treaty
The German–Soviet Boundary and Friendship Treaty was a second supplementary protocol of the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact of 23 August 1939.
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Germanisation
Germanisation, or Germanization, is the spread of the German language, people, and culture.
Ghetto
A ghetto is a part of a city in which members of a minority group are concentrated, especially as a result of political, social, legal, religious, environmental or economic pressure.
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Golden Rose Synagogue (Lviv)
The Golden Rose Synagogue, known also as the Nachmanowicz Synagogue, or the Turei Zahav Synagogue (בית הכנסת טורי זהב) was an Orthodox Jewish synagogue, located in Lviv, in what is now the Lviv Oblast in western Ukraine. The Golden Rose Synagogue, established in 1582 in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, was the oldest synagogue in what is now Ukraine. Lviv and Golden Rose Synagogue (Lviv) are world Heritage Sites in Ukraine.
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Gorlice–Tarnów offensive
The Gorlice–Tarnów offensive during World War I was initially conceived as a minor German offensive to relieve Russian pressure on the Austro-Hungarians to their south on the Eastern Front, but resulted in the Central Powers' chief offensive effort of 1915, causing the total collapse of the Russian lines and their retreat far into Russia.
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Gothic architecture
Gothic architecture is an architectural style that was prevalent in Europe from the late 12th to the 16th century, during the High and Late Middle Ages, surviving into the 17th and 18th centuries in some areas.
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Government of the Soviet Union
The Government of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was the executive and administrative organ of the highest body of state authority, the All-Union Supreme Soviet.
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Government of Ukraine
The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine (translit; shortened to CabMin), commonly referred to as the Government of Ukraine (Уряд України, Uriad Ukrainy), is the highest body of state executive power in Ukraine.
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Grad (toponymy)
Grad is an Old Slavic word meaning "town", "city", "castle" or "fortified settlement".
Grand Duchy of Lithuania
The Grand Duchy of Lithuania was a sovereign state in northeastern Europe that existed from the 13th century, succeeding the Kingdom of Lithuania, to the late 18th century, when the territory was suppressed during the 1795 partitions of Poland–Lithuania.
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Great Northern War plague outbreak
During the Great Northern War (1700–1721), many towns and areas around the Baltic Sea and East-Central Europe had a severe outbreak of the plague with a peak from 1708 to 1712.
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Great Suburb Synagogue
The Great Suburb Synagogue was a synagogue at Bożnicza-Street 16 in Lviv, in the Lviv Oblast of Ukraine.
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Habsburg monarchy
The Habsburg monarchy, also known as Habsburg Empire, or Habsburg Realm, was the collection of empires, kingdoms, duchies, counties and other polities that were ruled by the House of Habsburg.
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Halych
Halych (Галич; Halici; Halicz; Galich; Halytsch, Halitsch or Galitsch; Heylitsh) is a historic city on the Dniester River in western Ukraine. Lviv and Halych are Holocaust locations in Ukraine and Ruthenian Voivodeship.
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Halytskyi District, Lviv
Halytskyi District (Галицький район) is an urban district of the city of Lviv, named after Ruthenian king and founder of the city Daniel of Galicia (Danylo Halytskyi).
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Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute
The Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute (HURI) is a research institute affiliated with Harvard University devoted to Ukrainian studies, including the history, culture, language, literature, and politics of Ukraine.
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Harvard University
Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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Harvard University Press
Harvard University Press (HUP) is a publishing house established on January 13, 1913, as a division of Harvard University, and focused on academic publishing.
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Hasidic Judaism
Hasidism or Hasidic Judaism is a religious movement within Judaism that arose in the 18th century as a spiritual revival movement in contemporary Western Ukraine before spreading rapidly throughout Eastern Europe.
Hasmonea Lwów
Hasmonea Lwów was a Polish-Jewish sports club based in the city of Lwów (now Lviv, Ukraine).
Heavy industry
Heavy industry is an industry that involves one or more characteristics such as large and heavy products; large and heavy equipment and facilities (such as heavy equipment, large machine tools, huge buildings and large-scale infrastructure); or complex or numerous processes.
Height above mean sea level
Height above mean sea level is a measure of a location's vertical distance (height, elevation or altitude) in reference to a vertical datum based on a historic mean sea level.
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Heinrich Himmler
Heinrich Luitpold Himmler (7 October 1900 – 23 May 1945) was a German politician who was the 4th Reichsführer of the Schutzstaffel (Protection Squadron; SS), a leading member of the Nazi Party of Germany, and one of the most powerful men in Nazi Germany, primarily known for being a main architect of the Holocaust.
Henryk Rodakowski
Henryk Hipolit Rodakowski (1823–1894) was a Polish painter.
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Henryk Sienkiewicz
Henryk Adam Aleksander Pius Sienkiewicz (5 May 1846 – 15 November 1916), also known by the pseudonym Litwos, was an epic Polish writer.
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Henryk Vogelfänger
Henryk Vogelfänger (4 October 1904 – 6 October 1990), stage name Tońko, was a Polish actor.
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Henryk Wars
Henryk Wars (born Henryk Warszawski, after 1947 Henry Vars; 29 December 1902 – 1 September 1977) was a Polish composer.
High jump
The high jump is a track and field event in which competitors must jump unaided over a horizontal bar placed at measured heights without dislodging it.
History of Lviv
Lviv (Ukrainian: help, L’viv; Lwów; Lemberg or Leopoldstadt (archaic); לעמבערג; Lvov, see also other names) is an administrative center in western Ukraine with more than a millennium of history as a settlement, and over seven centuries as a city.
History of the Jews in Poland
The history of the Jews in Poland dates back at least 1,000 years.
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History of the Jews in Ukraine
The history of the Jews in Ukraine dates back over a thousand years; Jewish communities have existed in the modern territory of Ukraine from the time of the Kievan Rus' (late 9th to mid-13th century).
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History of the Soviet Union
The history of Soviet Russia and the Soviet Union (USSR) reflects a period of change for both Russia and the world.
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Home Army
The Home Army (Armia Krajowa,; abbreviated AK) was the dominant resistance movement in German-occupied Poland during World War II.
Horodok, Lviv Oblast
Horodok (Городок; Gródek Jagielloński) is a city in Lviv Raion, Lviv Oblast, western Ukraine. Lviv and Horodok, Lviv Oblast are cities in Lviv Oblast and Ruthenian Voivodeship.
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Horodyshche
Horodyshche (Городище) is a city located in Cherkasy Raion of Cherkasy Oblast (province) in central Ukraine. Lviv and Horodyshche are Holocaust locations in Ukraine.
Horsecar
A horsecar, horse-drawn tram, horse-drawn streetcar (U.S.), or horse-drawn railway (historical), is an animal-powered (usually horse) tram or streetcar.
Hromada
A hromada (translit) is a basic unit of administrative division in Ukraine, similar to a municipality.
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Hugo Steinhaus
Hugo Dyonizy Steinhaus (14 January 1887 – 25 February 1972) was a Polish mathematician and educator.
Humid continental climate
A humid continental climate is a climatic region defined by Russo-German climatologist Wladimir Köppen in 1900, typified by four distinct seasons and large seasonal temperature differences, with warm to hot (and often humid) summers, and cold (sometimes severely cold in the northern areas) and snowy winters.
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Hungary
Hungary is a landlocked country in Central Europe.
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Ice hockey
Ice hockey (or simply hockey) is a team sport played on ice skates, usually on an ice skating rink with lines and markings specific to the sport.
Ignacy Łukasiewicz
Jan Józef Ignacy Łukasiewicz (8 March 1822 – 7 January 1882) was a Polish pharmacist, engineer, businessman, inventor, and philanthropist.
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Imperial Russian Army
The Imperial Russian Army or Russian Imperial Army (Rússkaya imperátorskaya ármiya) was the armed land force of the Russian Empire, active from 1721 until the Russian Revolution of 1917.
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In Darkness (2011 film)
In Darkness (W ciemności) is a 2011 Polish drama film written by David F. Shamoon and directed by Agnieszka Holland.
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Information technology
Information technology (IT) is a set of related fields that encompass computer systems, software, programming languages, and data and information processing, and storage.
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International Republican Institute
The International Republican Institute (IRI) is an American nonprofit organization founded in 1983 and funded and supported by the United States federal government.
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Interwar period
In the history of the 20th century, the interwar period (or interbellum) lasted from 11November 1918 to 1September 1939 (20years, 9months, 21days) – from the end of World War I (WWI) to the beginning of World War II (WWII).
Invasion of Poland
The Invasion of Poland, also known as the September Campaign, Polish Campaign, War of Poland of 1939, and Polish Defensive War of 1939 (1 September – 6 October 1939), was a joint attack on the Republic of Poland by Nazi Germany, the Slovak Republic, and the Soviet Union, which marked the beginning of World War II.
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Iron Curtain
During the Cold War, the Iron Curtain was a political metaphor used to describe the political and later physical boundary dividing Europe into two separate areas from the end of World War II in 1945 until the end of the Cold War in 1991.
Italians
Italians (italiani) are an ethnic group native to the Italian geographical region.
Ivan Franko
Ivan Yakovych Franko (Іван Якович Франко, pronounced iˈwɑn ˈjɑkowɪtʃ frɐnˈkɔ; 27 August 1856 – 28 May 1916) was a Ukrainian poet, writer, social and literary critic, journalist, translator, economist, political activist, doctor of philosophy, ethnographer, and the author of the first detective novels and modern poetry in the Ukrainian language.
Ivan Franko Park (Lviv)
Ivan Franko Park (Парк імені Івана Франка), formerly known as Kościuszko Park and the Jesuit Gardens, is a park in Lviv, Ukraine.
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Ivan Fyodorov (printer)
Ivan Fyodorov or Ivan Fеdorov (Ива́н Фёдоров; Іван Федоров; born c. 1510 or c. 1525 – died December 16, 1583) sometimes transliterated as Fiodorov, was one of the fathers of Eastern Slavonic printing (along with Schweipolt Fiol and Francysk Skaryna), he was the first known Russian printer in Moscow and the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, he was also a skilled cannon maker and the inventor of a multibarreled mortar.
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Ivan Nechuy-Levytsky
Ivan Semenovych Nechuy-Levytsky (born Levytsky; – 2 April 1918) was a well-known Ukrainian writer.
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Ivan Pidkova
Ivan Pidkova (Іван Підкова) or Ioan Potcoavă (died 16 June 1578), also known as Ioan Crețul, and Nicoară Potcoavă among Romanians, was a prominent Cossack ataman, and short-lived Voivode (Prince) of Moldavia (November–December 1577).
Ivan Trush
Ivan Ivanovych Trush (Іван Іванович Труш,; 18 January 1869 – 21 March 1941) was a Ukrainian impressionist painter, a master of landscape and portraiture, an art critic, and active community patron of arts in Galicia or Halychyna – a historical region in western Ukraine.
Jacek Malczewski
Jacek Malczewski (15 July 1854 – 8 October 1929) was a Polish symbolist painter who was one of the central figures of the patriotic Young Poland movement.
Jadwiga of Poland
Jadwiga (1373 or 137417 July 1399), also known as Hedwig (Hedvig), was the first woman to be crowned as monarch of the Kingdom of Poland.
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Jagiellonian University
The Jagiellonian University (UJ) is a public research university in Kraków, Poland.
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Jan Kasprowicz
Jan Kasprowicz (12 December 1860 – 1 August 1926) was a poet, playwright, critic and translator; a foremost representative of Young Poland.
Jan Kiliński
Jan Kiliński (1760 in Trzemeszno - 28 January 1819 in Warsaw) was a Polish soldier and one of the commanders of the Kościuszko Uprising.
Jan Matejko
Jan Alojzy Matejko (also known as Jan Mateyko; 24 June 1838 – 1 November 1893) was a Polish painter, a leading 19th-century exponent of history painting, known for depicting nodal events from Polish history.
Jan Stanisławski (painter)
Jan Grzegorz Stanisławski (24 June 1860 – 6 January 1907) was a Polish modernist painter, art educator, and founder and member of various innovative art groups and literary societies.
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Janowska concentration camp
Janowska concentration camp (Janowska, Янов or "Yanov", Янівський табір) was a German Nazi concentration camp combining elements of labor, transit, and extermination camps.
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Józef Chełmoński
Józef Marian Chełmoński (November 7, 1849 – April 6, 1914) was a Polish painter of the realist school with roots in the historical and social context of the late Romantic period in partitioned Poland.
Józef Haller
Józef Haller von Hallenburg (13 August 1873 – 4 June 1960) was a Polish lieutenant general and legionary in the Polish Legions during the First World War.
Józef Mehoffer
Józef Mehoffer (19 March 1869 – 8 July 1946) was a Polish painter and decorative artist, one of the leading artists of the Young Poland movement and one of the most revered Polish artists of his time.
Józef Piłsudski
Józef Klemens Piłsudski (5 December 1867 – 12 May 1935) was a Polish statesman who served as the Chief of State (1918–1922) and first Marshal of Poland (from 1920).
Jean-Pierre Norblin de La Gourdaine
Jean-Pierre Norblin de La Gourdaine (Jan Piotr Norblin; 15 July 1745 – 23 February 1830) was a French painter, draughtsman, engraver and caricaturist.
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Jerzy Żuławski
Jerzy Żuławski (14 July 1874 – 9 August 1915) was a Polish literary figure, philosopher, translator, alpinist and patriot whose best-known work is the science-fiction epic, Trylogia Księżycowa (The Lunar Trilogy), written between 1901 and 1911.
Jesuits
The Society of Jesus (Societas Iesu; abbreviation: SJ), also known as the Jesuit Order or the Jesuits (Iesuitae), is a religious order of clerics regular of pontifical right for men in the Catholic Church headquartered in Rome.
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Jewish assimilation
Jewish assimilation (התבוללות, hitbolelut) refers either to the gradual cultural assimilation and social integration of Jews in their surrounding culture or to an ideological program in the age of emancipation promoting conformity as a potential solution to historic Jewish marginalization.
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Jewish culture
Jewish culture is the culture of the Jewish people, from its formation in ancient times until the current age.
Jewish ghettos established by Nazi Germany
Beginning with the invasion of Poland during World War II, the Nazi regime set up ghettos across German-occupied Eastern Europe in order to segregate and confine Jews, and sometimes Romani people, into small sections of towns and cities furthering their exploitation.
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Jewish quarter (diaspora)
In the Jewish diaspora, a Jewish quarter (also known as jewry, juiverie, Judengasse, Jewynstreet, Jewtown, Juderia or proto-ghetto) is the area of a city traditionally inhabited by Jews.
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Jews
The Jews (יְהוּדִים) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and nation originating from the Israelites of the ancient Near East, and whose traditional religion is Judaism.
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Johann Georg Pinsel
Johann Georg Pinsel (Johann Georg / Jan Jerzy Pinsel, Йоган Ґеорґ Пінзель; 1715–1725 – 1761 or 1762) was a Baroque-Rococo sculptor active in Eastern Galicia (then in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, now in Ukraine).
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John II Casimir Vasa
John II Casimir Vasa (Jan II Kazimierz Waza; Jonas Kazimieras Vaza; 22 March 1609 – 16 December 1672) was King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania from 1648 to his abdication in 1668 as well as a claimant to the throne of Sweden from 1648 to 1660.
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John III Sobieski Monument, Gdańsk
The King John III Sobieski Monument in Gdańsk (Pomnik króla Jana III Sobieskiego w Gdańsku) is an equestrian statue of the King of Poland John III Sobieski (1629-1696).
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Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor
Joseph II (German: Josef Benedikt Anton Michael Adam; English: Joseph Benedict Anthony Michael Adam; 13 March 1741 – 20 February 1790) was Holy Roman Emperor from 18 August 1765 and sole ruler of the Habsburg monarchy from 29 November 1780 until his death.
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Joseph Stalin
Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin (born Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili; – 5 March 1953) was a Soviet politician and revolutionary who led the Soviet Union from 1924 until his death in 1953.
Judaism
Judaism (יַהֲדוּת|translit.
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Juliusz Schauder
Juliusz Paweł Schauder (21 September 1899 – September 1943) was a Polish mathematician known for his work in functional analysis, partial differential equations and mathematical physics.
Kamianets-Podilskyi
Kamianets-Podilskyi (Кам'янець-Подільський) is a city on the Smotrych River in western Ukraine, to the north-east of Chernivtsi. Lviv and Kamianets-Podilskyi are cities of regional significance in Ukraine and Holocaust locations in Ukraine.
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Karol Borsuk
Karol Borsuk (8 May 1905 – 24 January 1982) was a Polish mathematician.
Katowice
Katowice is the capital city of the Silesian Voivodeship in southern Poland and the central city of the Katowice urban area. As of 2021, Katowice has an official population of 286,960, and a resident population estimate of around 315,000. Katowice is a central part of the Metropolis GZM, with a population of 2.3 million, and a part of a larger Katowice-Ostrava metropolitan area that extends into the Czech Republic and has a population of around 5 million people, making it one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the European Union.
Kazimierz Górski
Kazimierz Klaudiusz Górski (2 March 1921 – 23 May 2006) was a coach of Poland national football team and honorary president of the Polish Football Association.
Kazimierz Kuratowski
Kazimierz Kuratowski (2 February 1896 – 18 June 1980) was a Polish mathematician and logician.
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Kazimierz Przerwa-Tetmajer
Kazimierz Przerwa-Tetmajer (12 February 1865 – 18 January 1940) was a Polish Goral poet, novelist, playwright, journalist and writer.
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Kazimierz Sosnkowski
General Kazimierz Sosnkowski (Warsaw, 19 November 1885 – 11 October 1969, Arundel, Quebec) was a Polish independence fighter, general, diplomat, and architect.
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Kazimierz Twardowski
Kazimierz Jerzy Skrzypna-Twardowski (20 October 1866 – 11 February 1938) was a Polish philosopher, psychologist, logician, and rector of the Lwów University.
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Kazimierz Wajda
Kazimierz Wajda (3 December 1905 in Lwów - 8 May 1955 in Warsaw), stage name Szczepko, was a Polish actor and comedian.
Kazimierz Wojniakowski
Kazimierz Wojniakowski (1771/72 in Kraków – 1812 in Warsaw) was a Polish painter, illustrator and Freemason, known primarily for his portraits in the sentimentalist style.
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Köppen climate classification
The Köppen climate classification is one of the most widely used climate classification systems.
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Kerosene lamp
A kerosene lamp (also known as a paraffin lamp in some countries) is a type of lighting device that uses kerosene as a fuel.
Kharkiv
Kharkiv (Харків), also known as Kharkov (Харькoв), is the second-largest city in Ukraine. Lviv and Kharkiv are cities of regional significance in Ukraine, Holocaust locations in Ukraine and oblast centers in Ukraine.
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King of Ruthenia
King of Ruthenia, King of Rus', King of Galicia and Lodomeria, Lord and Heir of Ruthenian Lands (Latin: Rex Rusiae, Rex Ruthenorum, Rex Galiciae et Lodomeriae, Terrae Russiae Dominus et Heres) was a title of princes of Galicia and Volhynia, granted by the Pope.
Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria
The Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, also known as Austrian Galicia or colloquially Austrian Poland, was a constituent possession of the Habsburg monarchy in the historical region of Galicia in Eastern Europe.
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Kingdom of Galicia–Volhynia
The Principality or, from 1253, Kingdom of Galicia–Volhynia, also known as the Kingdom of Ruthenia, was a medieval state in Eastern Europe which existed from 1199 to 1349.
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Kingdom of Hungary
The Kingdom of Hungary was a monarchy in Central Europe that existed for nearly a millennium, from the Middle Ages into the 20th century.
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Kingdom of Poland
The Kingdom of Poland (Królestwo Polskie; Latin: Regnum Poloniae) was a monarchy in Central Europe during the medieval period from 1025 until 1385.
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Košice
Košice is the largest city in eastern Slovakia.
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Kobe
Kobe (Kōbe), officially, is the capital city of Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan.
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Kornel Ujejski
Kornel Ujejski (September 12, 1823 in Beremyany, Galicia, Austria - September 19, 1897 in Pavliv near Lviv, Galicia, Austria), also known as Cornelius Ujejski, was a Polish poet, patriot and political writer of the Austrian Empire and Austria-Hungary.
Korniakt Palace
The Korniakt Palace (Палац Корнякта (Palats Korniakta), kamienica Królewska we Lwowie) on Market Square in Lviv is a prime example of the royal kamienica, or townhouse.
KPMG
KPMG International Limited (or simply KPMG) is a multinational professional services network, and one of the Big Four accounting organizations, along with Ernst & Young (EY), Deloitte, and PwC.
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Kraków
(), also spelled as Cracow or Krakow, is the second-largest and one of the oldest cities in Poland. Lviv and Kraków are historic Jewish communities and magdeburg rights.
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Krakowskie Przedmieście
Krakowskie Przedmieście is one of the best known streets of Poland's capital Warsaw, surrounded by historic palaces, churches and manor-houses.
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Kutaisi
Kutaisi (ქუთაისი) is a city in the Imereti region of the Republic of Georgia.
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Kyiv
Kyiv (also Kiev) is the capital and most populous city of Ukraine. Lviv and Kyiv are Holocaust locations in Ukraine, magdeburg rights and oblast centers in Ukraine.
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La Scala
La Scala (officially italics) is a historic opera house in Milan, Italy.
Labor camp
A labor camp (or labour camp, see spelling differences) or work camp is a detention facility where inmates are forced to engage in penal labor as a form of punishment.
Latin
Latin (lingua Latina,, or Latinum) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages.
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Latin Church
The Latin Church (Ecclesia Latina) is the largest autonomous (sui iuris) particular church within the Catholic Church, whose members constitute the vast majority of the 1.3 billion Catholics.
Laurel and Hardy
Laurel and Hardy were a British-American comedy team during the early Classical Hollywood era of American cinema, consisting of Englishman Stan Laurel (1890–1965) and American Oliver Hardy (1892–1957).
League of Nations
The League of Nations (LN or LoN; Société des Nations, SdN) was the first worldwide intergovernmental organisation whose principal mission was to maintain world peace.
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Lechia Lwów
Lechia Lwów (full name: Lwowski Klub Sportowy "Lechia" Lwów) was the first Polish professional association football club, founded in summer 1903 in Lwów by students of the 3rd and 4th gymnasiums as well as former members of the Sokół football department.
Leo I of Galicia
Leo I of Galicia (translit; – c. 1301) was King of Ruthenia, Prince of Belz (1245–1264), Peremyshl, Galicia (1264–1269), and Kiev (1271–1301).
Leon Wyczółkowski
Leon Jan Wyczółkowski (24 April 1852 – 27 December 1936) was a Polish painter and educator who was one of the leading painters of the Young Poland movement, as well as the principal representative of Polish Realism in art of the Interbellum.
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Leonid Stein
Leonid Zakharovych Stein (Леонід Захарович Штейн; November 12, 1934 – July 4, 1973) was a Soviet chess Grandmaster from Ukraine.
Leopold Staff
Leopold Henryk Staff (November 14, 1878 – May 31, 1957) was a Polish poet; an artist of European modernism twice granted the Degree of Doctor honoris causa by universities in Warsaw and in Kraków.
Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
Leopold Ritter von Sacher-Masoch (27 January 1836 – 9 March 1895) was an Austrian nobleman, writer and journalist, who gained renown for his romantic stories of Galician life.
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Leopolis Jazz Fest
Leopolis Jazz Fest (previously Alfa Jazz Fest) is an international jazz festival, annually held in June in Lviv (Ukraine) since 2011.
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Life expectancy
Human life expectancy is a statistical measure of the estimate of the average remaining years of life at a given age.
List of cities in Ukraine
There are 461 populated places in Ukraine that have been officially granted city status (misto) by the Verkhovna Rada, the country's parliament, as of 1 January 2022.
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List of Jesuit educational institutions in the Philippines
This is a list of Jesuit educational institutions in the Philippines.
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List of Leopolitans
The inhabitants of Lviv, Ukraine (Lwów; Lemberg) are commonly known in English as Leopolitans (from the Neo-Latin name for the city, Leopolis).
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List of mayors of Lviv
The following is a list of mayors of the city of Lviv, Ukraine.
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List of regions of Ukraine by average salary
Figures all precede the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.
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List of sovereign states
The following is a list providing an overview of sovereign states around the world with information on their status and recognition of their sovereignty.
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Lithuanians
Lithuanians (lietuviai) are a Baltic ethnic group.
Liubartas
Demetrius of Liubar or Liubartas (also Lubart, Lubko, Lubardus, baptized Dmitry; died) was Prince of Lutsk and Liubar (Volhynia) (1323–1383), Prince of Zhytomyr (1363–1374), Grand Prince of Volhynia (1340–1383), Grand Prince of Halych–Volhynia (1340–1349).
Logistics
Logistics is the part of supply chain management that deals with the efficient forward and reverse flow of goods, services, and related information from the point of origin to the point of consumption according to the needs of customers.
Logo
A logo (abbreviation of logotype) is a graphic mark, emblem, or symbol used to aid and promote public identification and recognition.
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Long jump
The long jump is a track and field event in which athletes combine speed, strength and agility in an attempt to leap as far as possible from a takeoff point.
Louis I of Hungary
Louis I, also Louis the Great (Nagy Lajos; Ludovik Veliki; Ľudovít Veľký) or Louis the Hungarian (Ludwik Węgierski; 5 March 132610 September 1382), was King of Hungary and Croatia from 1342 and King of Poland from 1370.
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Lublin
Lublin is the ninth-largest city in Poland and the second-largest city of historical Lesser Poland.
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Lunokhod programme
Lunokhod (p, "Moonwalker") was a series of Soviet robotic lunar rovers designed to land on the Moon between 1969 and 1977.
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Lutsk
Lutsk (Луцьк,; see below for other names) is a city on the Styr River in northwestern Ukraine. Lviv and Lutsk are cities of regional significance in Ukraine, Holocaust locations in Ukraine, magdeburg rights and oblast centers in Ukraine.
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Lviv
Lviv (Львів; see below for other names) is the largest city in western Ukraine, as well as the sixth-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 cultural centres of Ukraine. Lviv and Lviv are 13th-century establishments in Europe, cities in Lviv Oblast, cities of regional significance in Ukraine, historic Jewish communities, Holocaust locations in Ukraine, kingdom of Galicia–Volhynia, magdeburg rights, oblast centers in Ukraine, populated places established in the 13th century, Recipients of the Virtuti Militari, Ruthenian Voivodeship and world Heritage Sites in Ukraine.
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Lviv bid for the 2022 Winter Olympics
Lviv 2022 (Львів 2022; Lwów 2022; Львов 2022; Lemberg 2022) was a bid by the city of Lviv and the National Olympic Committee of Ukraine for the 2022 Winter Olympics.
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Lviv Bus Factory
The Lviv Automobile Factory (Львівський автомобільний завод), mostly known under its obsolete name Lvivskyi Avtobusnyi Zavod (Львівський автобусний завод, literally "Lviv Bus Factory") was a bus manufacturing company in Lviv, Ukraine.
Lviv Centre of Institute for Space Research
The Lviv Centre of Institute for Space Research (LC ISR), is a research institute in Lviv, Ukraine.
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Lviv Danylo Halytskyi International Airport
Lviv Danylo Halytskyi International Airport (Mizhnarodnyi aeroport "Lviv" imeni Danyla Halytskoho) is an international airport in Lviv, Ukraine, located from the central city.
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Lviv High Castle
The Lviv High Castle (translit; Wysoki Zamek) is a historic castle located on the top of the Castle Hill of the city of Lviv, Ukraine.
Lviv Municipal Art Center
Lviv Municipal Art Center is an art center with a gallery in Lviv, opened in 2020.
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Lviv National Academy of Arts
Lviv National Academy of Arts is a higher education establishment in Lviv, Ukraine.
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Lviv National Environmental University
Lviv National Environmental University (Львівський національний університет природокористування, ЛНУП) is a Ukrainian university in Lviv.
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Lviv National Music Academy
Mykola Lysenko Lviv National Music Academy (Львівська національна музична академія імені Миколи Лисенка), or informally Lviv Conservatory, is a national musical institution of higher education in Lviv, Ukraine.
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Lviv Oblast
Lviv Oblast (translit), also referred to as Lvivshchyna (Львівщина), is an oblast in western Ukraine.
Lviv Organ Hall
The Lviv Organ Hall (Львівський органний зал) is a concert hall located within the Church of St. Mary Magdaline in the city of Lviv, constructed in the 17th century.
Lviv Polytechnic
Lviv Polytechnic National University (Націона́льний університе́т «Льві́вська політе́хніка») is a public university in Lviv, Ukraine, founded in 1816.
Lviv railway station
Lviv-Holovnyi railway station (Льві́в-Головни́й) is the main railway terminal in Lviv, Ukraine.
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Lviv Raion
Lviv Raion (Львівський район) is a raion (district) of Lviv Oblast, Ukraine.
Lviv Speedway
Lviv Speedway is a Ukrainian motorcycle speedway team based in Lviv.
Lviv Theatre of Opera and Ballet
The Solomiya Krushelnytska Lviv State Academic Theatre of Opera and Ballet (Львівський Національний академічний театр опери та балету імені Соломії Крушельницької) or Lviv Opera (Львівська оперa, Opera Lwowska) is an opera house located in Lviv, Ukraine's largest western city and one of its cultural centres.
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Lviv Town Hall
The city of Lviv, Ukraine has had a series of town hall buildings since approximately 1357.
Lviv trolleybus
The Lviv trolleybus (Львівський тролейбус, translit.: L’vivs’kyi troleibus) is a trolleybus system in Lviv, Ukraine.
Lviv University of Trade and Economics
The Lviv University of Trade and Economics is a university in Lviv, Ukraine.
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Lviv urban hromada
Lviv urban territorial hromada (translit) is a hromada (municipality) in Ukraine's Lviv Oblast, in Lviv Raion.
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Lvivske
Lvivske (Львівське) is a brand of Ukrainian beer produced by the Lviv brewery since 1715 (currently PJSC Carlsberg Ukraine, part of the Carlsberg Group).
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Lvov-Sandomierz Offensive
The Lvov–Sandomierz offensive or Lvov–Sandomierz strategic offensive operation (Львовско-Сандомирская стратегическая наступательная операция) was a major Red Army operation to force the German troops from Ukraine and Eastern Poland.
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Lwów dialect
The Lwów dialect (gwara lwowska, Yiddish: לעמבערג דיאלעקט) is a subdialect (gwara) of the Polish language characteristic of the inhabitants of the then Polish city of Lviv (Lwów, Yiddish: לעמבעריק), now in Ukraine.
Lwów Eaglets
Lwów Eaglets (Orlęta lwowskie) is a term of affection that is applied to the Polish child soldiers who defended the city of Lwów (L'viv), in Eastern Galicia, during the Polish-Ukrainian War (1918–1919).
Lwów Ghetto
The Lwów Ghetto (Ghetto Lemberg; getto we Lwowie) was a Nazi ghetto in the city of Lwów (now Lviv, Ukraine) in the territory of Nazi-administered General Government in German-occupied Poland.
Lwów Oath
The Lwów Oath (Śluby lwowskie) was an oath made on April 1, 1656 by Polish king John II Casimir in Latin cathedral in the city of Lwów (today Lviv, western Ukraine).
Lwów pogrom (1918)
The Lwów pogrom (pogrom lwowski, Lemberger Pogrom) was a pogrom perpetrated by Polish soldiers and civilians against the Jewish population of the city of Lwów (since 1945, Lviv, Ukraine).
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Lwów School of Mathematics
The Lwów school of mathematics (Lwowska szkoła matematyczna) was a group of Polish mathematicians who worked in the interwar period in Lwów, Poland (since 1945 Lviv, Ukraine).
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Lwów Scientific Society
Lwów Scientific Society (Towarzystwo Naukowe we Lwowie) was a Polish learned society founded in 1901 in Lwów by Oswald Balzer as the Association of Support of Polish Sciences.
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Lwów Voivodeship
Lwów Voivodeship (Województwo lwowskie) was an administrative unit of interwar Poland (1918–1939).
Lwów–Warsaw school
The Lwów–Warsaw School (Szkoła Lwowsko-Warszawska) was an interdisciplinary school (mainly philosophy, logic and psychology) founded by Kazimierz Twardowski in 1895 in Lemberg, Austro-Hungary (Lwów; now Lviv, Ukraine).
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Lychakiv Cemetery
Lychakiv Cemetery (translit; Cmentarz Łyczakowski we Lwowie), officially State History and Culture Museum-Preserve "Lychakiv Cemetery" (Державний історико-культурний музей-заповідник «Лича́ківський цви́нтар»), is a historic cemetery in Lviv, Ukraine.
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Lychakivskyi District
Lychakivskyi District (Личаківський район) is an urban district of the city of Lviv, named after the historical district of Lychakiv.
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Lyricist
A lyricist is a writer who writes lyrics (the spoken words), as opposed to a composer, who writes the song's music which may include but not limited to the melody, harmony, arrangement and accompaniment.
MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive
The MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive is a website maintained by John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson and hosted by the University of St Andrews in Scotland.
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Magdeburg rights
Magdeburg rights (Magdeburger Recht, Prawo magdeburskie, Magdeburgo teisė; also called Magdeburg Law) were a set of town privileges first developed by Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor (936–973) and based on the Flemish Law, which regulated the degree of internal autonomy within cities and villages granted by the local ruler.
Maksymilian Goldstein
Maksymilian Goldstein (December 9, 1880 – c. 1942; English: Maximilian Goldstein) was a Polish Jewish historian, art critic and collector.
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Manhattan Project
The Manhattan Project was a research and development program undertaken during World War II to produce the first nuclear weapons.
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Mannerism
Mannerism is a style in European art that emerged in the later years of the Italian High Renaissance around 1520, spreading by about 1530 and lasting until about the end of the 16th century in Italy, when the Baroque style largely replaced it.
Marcello Bacciarelli
Marcello Bacciarelli (16 February 1731 – 5 January 1818) was an Italian-born painter of the late-baroque and Neoclassic periods active in Poland and the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
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Margit Sielska-Reich
Margit Sielska-Reich (translit; 26 May 1900 – 3 February 1980) was a Polish-Ukrainian painter who worked in Lviv.
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Maria Konopnicka
Maria Konopnicka (23 May 1842 – 8 October 1910) was a Polish poet, novelist, children's writer, translator, journalist, critic, and activist for women's rights and for Polish independence.
Maria Theresa
Maria Theresa (Maria Theresia Walburga Amalia Christina; 13 May 1717 – 29 November 1780) was ruler of the Habsburg dominions from 1740 until her death in 1780, and the only woman to hold the position suo jure (in her own right).
Maria Zankovetska Theatre
Maria Zankovetska Theatre (Національний академічний український драматичний театр імені Марії Заньковецької, Natsionalnyi akademichnyi ukrayinskyi dramatychnyi teatr imeni Mariyi Zankovetskoyi; Teatr Skarbkowski) is a drama theatre in the centre of Lviv, Ukraine, at the intersection of Lesya Ukrayinka Street and Prospekt Svobody.
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Mark Kac
Mark Kac (Polish: Marek Kac; August 3, 1914 – October 26, 1984) was a Polish American mathematician.
Market Square (Lviv)
Rynok Square (translit, Rynek we Lwowie, Ring) is a central square of the city of Lviv, Ukraine.
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Mary, mother of Jesus
Mary was a first-century Jewish woman of Nazareth, the wife of Joseph and the mother of Jesus.
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Massacre of Lwów professors
In July 1941, 25 Polish academics from the city of Lwów (now Lviv, Ukraine) along with the 25 of their family members were killed by Nazi German occupation forces.
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Mathematician
A mathematician is someone who uses an extensive knowledge of mathematics in their work, typically to solve mathematical problems.
Michał Matyas
Michał Franciszek Mieczysław Matyas (28 September 1910 – 22 October 1975) was a Polish footballer, who represented such teams as Pogoń Lwów and Polonia Bytom, as well as Poland.
Middle Ages
In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages or medieval period (also spelt mediaeval or mediæval) lasted from approximately 500 to 1500 AD.
Middle class
The middle class refers to a class of people in the middle of a social hierarchy, often defined by occupation, income, education, or social status.
Mieczysław Horszowski
Mieczysław Horszowski (June 23, 1892May 22, 1993) was a Polish and American pianist who had one of the longest careers in the history of the performing arts.
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Milan
Milan (Milano) is a city in northern Italy, regional capital of Lombardy, and the second-most-populous city proper in Italy after Rome.
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Modern history of Ukraine
Ukraine emerged as the concept of a nation, and Ukrainians as a nationality, with the Ukrainian National Revival which began in the late 18th and early 19th century.
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Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact
The Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, officially the Treaty of Non-Aggression between Germany and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, was a non-aggression pact between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union with a secret protocol that partitioned between them or managed the sovereignty of the states in Central and Eastern Europe: Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Finland and Romania.
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Mongol invasion of Europe
From the 1220s into the 1240s, the Mongols conquered the Turkic states of Volga Bulgaria, Cumania and Iranian state of Alania, and various principalities in Eastern Europe.
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Mongols
The Mongols are an East Asian ethnic group native to Mongolia, China (majority in Inner Mongolia), as well as Buryatia and Kalmykia of Russia.
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Morris West
Morris Langlo West (26 April 19169 October 1999) was an Australian novelist and playwright, best known for his novels The Devil's Advocate (1959), The Shoes of the Fisherman (1963) and The Clowns of God (1981).
Motorcycle speedway
Motorcycle speedway, usually referred to simply as speedway, is a motorcycle sport involving four and sometimes up to six riders competing over four anti-clockwise laps of an oval circuit.
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Museum of Salo
The Museum of Salo is a museum dedicated to salo (cured pork fat) in Lviv, Ukraine by, 6/8.
Musical composition
Musical composition can refer to an original piece or work of music, either vocal or instrumental, the structure of a musical piece or to the process of creating or writing a new piece of music.
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Mykhailo Hrushevsky
Mykhailo Serhiiovych Hrushevsky (translit; – 24 November 1934) was a Ukrainian academician, politician, historian and statesman who was one of the most important figures of the Ukrainian national revival of the early 20th century.
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Mykola Kolessa
Mykola Filaretovich Kolessa (6 December 1903 – 8 June 2006) was a Ukrainian composer and conductor, born in Sambir near Lviv.
Myrhorod
Myrhorod (Миргород) is a city in Poltava Oblast, central Ukraine. Lviv and Myrhorod are cities of regional significance in Ukraine.
Narrow-gauge railway
A narrow-gauge railway (narrow-gauge railroad in the US) is a railway with a track gauge narrower than.
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National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
The National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (NASU; Natsionalna akademiia nauk Ukrainy, NAN Ukraine) is a self-governing state-funded organization in Ukraine that is the main center of development of science and technology by coordinating a system of research institutes in the country.
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National Centers for Environmental Information
The National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) is a U.S. government agency that manages one of the world's largest archives of atmospheric, coastal, geophysical, and oceanic data.
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National Museum of Poland
"National Museum of Poland" is the common name for several of the country's largest and most notable museums.
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National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (abbreviated as NOAA) is a US scientific and regulatory agency charged with forecasting weather, monitoring oceanic and atmospheric conditions, charting the seas, conducting deep-sea exploration, and managing fishing and protection of marine mammals and endangered species in the US exclusive economic zone.
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National university
A national university is mainly a university created or managed by a government, but which may also at the same time operate autonomously without direct control by the state.
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Nazi concentration camps
From 1933 to 1945, Nazi Germany operated more than a thousand concentration camps (Konzentrationslager), including subcamps on its own territory and in parts of German-occupied Europe.
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Nazi Germany
Nazi Germany, officially known as the German Reich and later the Greater German Reich, was the German state between 1933 and 1945, when Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party controlled the country, transforming it into a totalitarian dictatorship.
Neo-romanticism
The term neo-romanticism is used to cover a variety of movements in philosophy, literature, music, painting, and architecture, as well as social movements, that exist after and incorporate elements from the era of Romanticism.
Neoclassical architecture
Neoclassical architecture, sometimes referred to as Classical Revival architecture, is an architectural style produced by the Neoclassical movement that began in the mid-18th century in Italy, France and Germany.
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New Objectivity
The New Objectivity (in Neue Sachlichkeit) was a movement in German art that arose during the 1920s as a reaction against expressionism.
Nextbike
nextbike is a German company that develops and operates public bike-sharing systems.
Nikifor
Nikifor (21 May 1895, Krynica, Austria-Hungary – 10 October 1968, Folusz, Poland), also known as Nikifor Krynicki, born as Epifaniy Drovnyak (Epifaniusz Drowniak)1, was a Lemko naïve painter.
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NKVD
The People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (Narodnyy komissariat vnutrennikh del), abbreviated as NKVD, was the interior ministry of the Soviet Union from 1934 to 1946.
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Novhorod-Siverskyi
Novhorod-Siverskyi (Новгород-Сіверський) is a historic city in Chernihiv Oblast, northern Ukraine. Lviv and Novhorod-Siverskyi are Holocaust locations in Ukraine.
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Novi Sad
Novi Sad (Нови Сад,; see below for other names) is the second largest city in Serbia after the capital Belgrade and the capital of the autonomous province of Vojvodina.
Nuclear weapon design
Nuclear weapon designs are physical, chemical, and engineering arrangements that cause the physics package of a nuclear weapon to detonate.
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Nuremberg trials
The Nuremberg trials were held by the Allies against representatives of the defeated Nazi Germany for plotting and carrying out invasions of other countries across Europe and atrocities against their citizens in World War II.
Oblasts of Ukraine
An oblast (oblast) in Ukraine, sometimes translated as region or province, is the main type of first-level administrative division of the country.
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Occupation of Poland (1939–1945)
The occupation of Poland by Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union during World War II (1939–1945) began with the Invasion of Poland in September 1939, and it was formally concluded with the defeat of Germany by the Allies in May 1945.
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Odesa
Odesa (also spelled Odessa) is the third most populous city and municipality in Ukraine and a major seaport and transport hub located in the south-west of the country, on the northwestern shore of the Black Sea. Lviv and Odesa are historic Jewish communities, Holocaust locations in Ukraine and oblast centers in Ukraine.
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Okean Elzy
Okean Elzy (Elza's Ocean) is a Ukrainian rock band.
Old Cathedral of St. Sophia, Kyiv
The Old Cathedral of St. Sophia (Katedra św., Sancta Sophia, Capitulo et Canonicis Cathedralis Ecclesiae Kioviencis) also called Catholic Cathedral of St. Sophia is the name given to a Catholic cathedral that was in the city of Kyiv, the capital of the European country of Ukraine. It was transformed into an Orthodox church and later demolished during the Soviet era.
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Old Town (Lviv)
Lviv's Old Town (translit; Stare Miasto we Lwowie) is the historic centre of the city of Lviv, within the Lviv Oblast (province) in Ukraine, recognized as a State Historic-Architectural Sanctuary in 1975. Lviv and Old Town (Lviv) are world Heritage Sites in Ukraine.
Oleh Krysa
Oleg/Oleh Krysa (Олег Крыса Олег Криса; born June 1, 1942) is an American violinist of Ukrainian Origin, Laureate of International Competitions, Honored Artist of Ukrainian SSR(1970), Laureate of Lenin Komsomol Prize(1970), Merited Artist of Ukraine.
Olga Boznańska
Olga Boznańska (15 April 1865 – 26 October 1940) was a Polish painter of the turn of the 20th century.
Operation Barbarossa
Operation Barbarossa (Unternehmen Barbarossa) was the invasion of the Soviet Union by Nazi Germany and many of its Axis allies, starting on Sunday, 22 June 1941, during World War II.
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Orange Revolution
The Orange Revolution (translit) was a series of protests, that lead to political upheaval in Ukraine from late November 2004 to January 2005.
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Orest Subtelny
Orest Subtelny (О́рест Миросла́вович Субте́льний, 17 May 1941 – 24 July 2016) was a Ukrainian-Canadian historian.
Orthodox Judaism
Orthodox Judaism is the collective term for the traditionalist branches of contemporary Judaism.
Ossolineum
Ossoliński National Institute (Zakład Narodowy im., ZNiO), or the Ossolineum is a Polish cultural foundation, publishing house, archival institute and a research centre of national significance founded in 1817 in Lwów (now Lviv).
Ottoman Empire
The Ottoman Empire, historically and colloquially known as the Turkish Empire, was an imperial realm centered in Anatolia that controlled much of Southeast Europe, West Asia, and North Africa from the 14th to early 20th centuries; it also controlled parts of southeastern Central Europe, between the early 16th and early 18th centuries.
Outsourcing
Outsourcing is a business practice in which companies use external providers to carry out business processes that would otherwise be handled internally, or in-house.
Panteleimon Kulish
Panteleimon Oleksandrovych Kulish (Пантелеймон Олександрович Куліш; 7 August 1819 – 14 February 1897) was a Ukrainian writer, critic, poet, folklorist, and translator.
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Papal legate
A woodcut showing Henry II of England greeting the Pope's legate. A papal legate or apostolic legate (from the ancient Roman title legatus) is a personal representative of the Pope to foreign nations, to some other part of the Catholic Church, or representatives of the state or monarchy.
Parma, Ohio
Parma is a city in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, United States, located on the southern edge of Cleveland.
Partitions of Poland
The Partitions of Poland were three partitions of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth that took place toward the end of the 18th century and ended the existence of the state, resulting in the elimination of sovereign Poland and Lithuania for 123 years.
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Paul Blobel
Paul Blobel (13 August 1894 – 7 June 1951) was a German Sicherheitsdienst (SD) commander and convicted war criminal who played a leading role in the Holocaust.
Pál Kelemen
Pál Kelemen (24 April 1894 – 15 February 1993) was a Hungarian-American archaeologist, art historian, and international art lecturer who contributed to the research of Pre-Columbian art.
People's Commissariat for State Security
The People's Commissariat for State Security (Narodnyy komissariat gosudarstvennoy bezopasnosti) or NKGB, was the name of the Soviet secret police, intelligence and counter-intelligence force that existed from 3 February 1941 to 20 July 1941, and again from 1943 to 1946, before being renamed the Ministry for State Security (MGB).
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Perestroika
Perestroika (a) was a political reform movement within the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) during the late 1980s, widely associated with CPSU general secretary Mikhail Gorbachev and his glasnost (meaning "transparency") policy reform.
Petro Poroshenko
Petro Oleksiiovych Poroshenko (born 26 September 1965) is a Ukrainian oligarch and politician who served as the fifth president of Ukraine from 2014 to 2019.
Petroleum reservoir
A petroleum reservoir or oil and gas reservoir is a subsurface accumulation of hydrocarbons contained in porous or fractured rock formations.
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Piast dynasty
The House of Piast was the first historical ruling dynasty of Poland.
Pietro Vidoni
Pietro Vidoni (8 November 1610 – 5 January 1681) was an Italian cardinal who served from 1652 to 1660 as the papal legate and nuncio to Poland.
Pikkardiyska Tertsiya
Pikkardiyska Tertsiya (Піккардійська терція, Вокальна формація Піккардійська терція, literally Picardy third) is a Ukrainian a cappella vocal group formed on 24 September 1992, in Lviv.
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Pogoń Lwów
LKS Pogoń Lwów is a former Polish professional sports club which was located in Lwów, Lwów Voivodeship (now Lviv in Ukraine), and existed from 1904 until the outbreak of World War II in 1939.
Poland–Ukraine border
The Polish–Ukrainian border is the state border between Poland and Ukraine.
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Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences
The Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences or Polish Academy of Learning (Polska Akademia Umiejętności, PAU), headquartered in Kraków and founded in 1872, is one of two institutions in contemporary Poland having the nature of an academy of sciences (the other being the Polish Academy of Sciences, headquartered in Warsaw).
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Polish Air Force
The Polish Air Force (Air Forces) is the aerial warfare branch of the Polish Armed Forces.
Polish Copernicus Society of Naturalists
Polish Copernicus Society of Naturalists (Polskie Towarzystwo Przyrodników im.) is a Polish scientific society for natural sciences researchers.
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The Polish Football Association (Polski Związek Piłki Nożnej; PZPN) is the governing body of association football in Poland.
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Polish Golden Age
The Polish Golden Age (Polish: Złoty Wiek Polski) was the Renaissance period in Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, roughly corresponding to the period of rule of the King Władysław II Jagiełło (1386–1434) and Sigismund II Augustus, the last of the Jagiellonian Dynasty monarchs, until his death in 1572.
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Polish government-in-exile
The Polish government-in-exile, officially known as the Government of the Republic of Poland in exile (Rząd Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej na uchodźstwie), was the government in exile of Poland formed in the aftermath of the Invasion of Poland of September 1939, and the subsequent occupation of Poland by Germany, the Soviet Union, and the Slovak Republic, which brought to an end the Second Polish Republic.
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Polish Historical Society
Polish Historical Society (Polskie Towarzystwo Historyczne, PTH) is a Polish professional scientific society for historians.
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Polish language
Polish (język polski,, polszczyzna or simply polski) is a West Slavic language of the Lechitic group within the Indo-European language family written in the Latin script.
Polish literature
Polish literature is the literary tradition of Poland.
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Polish people
Polish people, or Poles, are a West Slavic ethnic group and nation who share a common history, culture, the Polish language and are identified with the country of Poland in Central Europe.
Polish population transfers (1944–1946)
The Polish population transfers in 1944–1946 from the eastern half of prewar Poland (also known as the expulsions of Poles from the Kresy macroregion), were the forced migrations of Poles toward the end and in the aftermath of World War II.
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Polish Radio Lwów
Polish Radio Lwów (Polskie Radio Lwów) was a station of the Polish Radio, located in the city of Lwów (now Lviv, Ukraine), which in the interbellum period belonged to the Second Polish Republic.
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Polish Scientific Publishers PWN
Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN (Polish Scientific Publishers PWN; until 1991 Państwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe - National Scientific Publishers PWN, PWN) is a Polish book publisher, founded in 1951, when it split from the Wydawnictwa Szkolne i Pedagogiczne.
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Polish State Railways
The Polish State Railways (Polish: Polskie Koleje Państwowe, abbr.: PKP S.A.) is a Polish state-owned holding company (legally a sole-shareholder company of the State Treasury) comprising the rail transport holdings of the country's formerly dominant namesake railway operator.
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Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
Poland–Lithuania, formally known as the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and also referred to as the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth or the First Polish Republic, was a bi-confederal state, sometimes called a federation, of Poland and Lithuania ruled by a common monarch in real union, who was both King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania.
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Polish–Soviet War
The Polish–Soviet War (late autumn 1918 / 14 February 1919 – 18 March 1921) was fought primarily between the Second Polish Republic and the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic before it became a union republic in the aftermath of World War I and the Russian Revolution, on territories which were previously held by the Russian Empire and the Habsburg Monarchy following the Partitions of Poland.
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Polish–Ukrainian War
The Polish–Ukrainian War, from November 1918 to July 1919, was a conflict between the Second Polish Republic and Ukrainian forces (both the West Ukrainian People's Republic and the Ukrainian People's Republic).
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Polonization
Polonization or Polonisation (polonizacja)In Polish historiography, particularly pre-WWII (e.g., L. Wasilewski. As noted in Смалянчук А. Ф. (Smalyanchuk 2001) Паміж краёвасцю і нацыянальнай ідэяй. Польскі рухна беларускіхі літоўскіхземлях.
Polskie Radio
The Polish Radio (PR; Polish: Polskie Radio, PR) is a national public-service radio broadcasting organization of Poland, founded in 1925.
Poltva
The Poltva (Pełtew) is a river in the western Ukrainian Oblast of Lviv and a tributary of the Bug.
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Pope
The pope (papa, from lit) is the bishop of Rome and the visible head of the worldwide Catholic Church.
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Pope Alexander VII
Pope Alexander VII (Alessandro VII; 13 February 159922 May 1667), born Fabio Chigi, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 7 April 1655 to his death, in May 1667.
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Pope John Paul II
Pope John Paul II (Ioannes Paulus II; Jan Paweł II; Giovanni Paolo II; born Karol Józef Wojtyła,; 18 May 19202 April 2005) was head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 1978 until his death in 2005.
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Population exchange between Poland and Soviet Ukraine
The population exchange between Poland and Soviet Ukraine at the end of World War II was based on a treaty signed on 9 September 1944 by the Ukrainian SSR with the newly-formed Polish Committee of National Liberation (PKWN).
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Potocki Palace, Lviv
The Potocki Palace in Lviv (Палац Потоцьких, Palats Pototskykh; Pałac Potockich) was built in the 1880s as an urban seat of Alfred Józef Potocki, former Minister-President of Austria.
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Poverty in Austrian Galicia
Poverty in Austrian Galicia was extreme, particularly in the late 19th century.
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Poznań
Poznań is a city on the River Warta in west Poland, within the Greater Poland region. Lviv and Poznań are magdeburg rights.
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Primo Levi
Primo Michele Levi (31 July 1919 – 11 April 1987) was a Jewish-Italian chemist, partisan, writer, and Holocaust survivor.
Principality of Galicia
The Principality of Galicia (translit; Galickoje kǔnęžǐstvo), also known as Principality of Halych or Principality of Halychian Rus, was a medieval East Slavic principality, and one of the main regional states within the political scope of Kievan Rus', established by members of the oldest line of Yaroslav the Wise descendants.
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Prosvita
Prosvita (просвіта, 'enlightenment') is an enlightenment society aimed to preserve and develop Ukrainian culture, education and science, that was created in the nineteenth century in Austria-Hungary's Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria.
Protestantism
Protestantism is a branch of Christianity that emphasizes justification of sinners through faith alone, the teaching that salvation comes by unmerited divine grace, the priesthood of all believers, and the Bible as the sole infallible source of authority for Christian faith and practice.
Provisional Government of National Unity
The Provisional Government of National Unity (Tymczasowy Rząd Jedności Narodowej, TRJN) was a puppet government formed by the decree of the State National Council (Krajowa Rada Narodowa, KRN) on 28 June 1945 as a result of reshuffling the Soviet-backed Provisional Government of the Republic of Poland established by the Polish Workers' Party (Polska Partia Robotnicza, PPR) through inclusion of politicians from the close political sphere of Stanisław Mikołajczyk, the former prime minister of the Polish government-in-exile based in London.
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Przemyśl
Przemyśl is a city in southeastern Poland with 58,721 inhabitants, as of December 2021. Lviv and Przemyśl are Ruthenian Voivodeship.
Publishing
Publishing is the activity of making information, literature, music, software, and other content available to the public for sale or for free.
Pula
Pula, also known as Pola (Pola; Puola; Pulj; Póla), is the largest city in Istria County, Croatia, and the seventh-largest city in the country, situated at the southern tip of the Istrian peninsula in northwestern Croatia, with a population of 52,220 in 2021.
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Rachel Korn
Rachel (Rokhl) Häring Korn (רחל קאָרן, 15 January 1898 – 9 September 1982) was a Polish-born Canadian Yiddish language poet and author.
Railbus
A railbus is a lightweight passenger railcar with an automotive engine.
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Raions of Ukraine
A raion (raion), often translated as district, is the second-level administrative division in Ukraine.
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Ratification
Ratification is a principal's legal confirmation of an act of its agent.
Recovered Territories
The Recovered Territories or Regained Lands (Ziemie Odzyskane), also known as the Western Borderlands (Kresy Zachodnie), and previously as the Western and Northern Territories (Ziemie Zachodnie i Północne), Postulated Territories (Ziemie Postulowane) and Returning Territories (Ziemie Powracające), are the former eastern territories of Germany and the Free City of Danzig that became part of Poland after World War II, at which time most of their German inhabitants were forcibly deported.
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Red Army
The Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, often shortened to the Red Army, was the army and air force of the Russian Soviet Republic and, from 1922, the Soviet Union.
Red Ruthenia
Red Ruthenia, or Red Rus' (Chervona Rus'; Ruś Czerwona; Ruthenia Rubra; Russia Rubra; Chervonnaya Rus' or Krasnaya Rus'; Rutenia Roșie), is a term used since the Middle Ages for the south-western principalities of the Kievan Rus', namely the Principality of Peremyshl and the Principality of Belz.
Red star
A red star, five-pointed and filled, is a symbol that has often historically been associated with communist ideology, particularly in combination with the hammer and sickle, but is also used as a purely socialist symbol in the 21st century.
Reform Judaism
Reform Judaism, also known as Liberal Judaism or Progressive Judaism, is a major Jewish denomination that emphasizes the evolving nature of Judaism, the superiority of its ethical aspects to its ceremonial ones, and belief in a continuous revelation which is closely intertwined with human reason and not limited to the Theophany at Mount Sinai.
Reichskommissariat Ukraine
The Reichskommissariat Ukraine (RKU) was established by Nazi Germany in 1941 during World War II.
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Religion
Religion is a range of social-cultural systems, including designated behaviors and practices, morals, beliefs, worldviews, texts, sanctified places, prophecies, ethics, or organizations, that generally relate humanity to supernatural, transcendental, and spiritual elements—although there is no scholarly consensus over what precisely constitutes a religion.
Renaissance
The Renaissance is a period of history and a European cultural movement covering the 15th and 16th centuries.
Renaissance architecture
Renaissance architecture is the European architecture of the period between the early 15th and early 16th centuries in different regions, demonstrating a conscious revival and development of certain elements of ancient Greek and Roman thought and material culture.
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Research and development
Research and development (R&D or R+D; also known in Europe as research and technological development or RTD) is the set of innovative activities undertaken by corporations or governments in developing new services or products and carrier science computer marketplace e-commerce, copy center and service maintenance troubleshooting software, hardware improving existing ones.
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Research institute
A research institute, research centre, research center or research organization is an establishment founded for doing research.
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Revolutions of 1848 in the Austrian Empire
The Revolutions of 1848 in the Austrian Empire were a set of revolutions that took place in the Austrian Empire from March 1848 to November 1849.
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Reykjavík
Reykjavík is the capital and largest city of Iceland.
Riflemen's Association
The Polish Riflemen's Association, known as Związek Strzelecki (or more commonly, in the plural form as Związki Strzeleckie) formed in great numbers prior to World War I. One of the better known associations the "Strzelec" ('Rifleman'), was a Polish paramilitary cultural and educational organization created in 1910 in Lwów as a legal front of the Związek Walki Czynnej (ZWC - Union of Active Struggle).
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Rishon LeZion
Rishon LeZion (רִאשׁוֹן לְצִיּוֹן, "First to Zion") is a city in Israel, located along the central Israeli coastal plain south of Tel Aviv.
Rochdale
Rochdale is a town in Greater Manchester, England, and the administrative centre of the Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale.
Rokhl Auerbakh
Rokhl Auerbakh (רחל אוירבך, also spelled Rokhl Oyerbakh and Rachel Auerbach) (18 December 1903 – 31 May 1976) was an Israeli writer, essayist, historian, Holocaust scholar, and Holocaust survivor.
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Lviv
The Archdiocese of Lviv (of the Latins) (Archidioecesis Leopolitana Latinorum) (Львівська архідієцезія) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical jurisdiction or archdiocese of the Catholic Church in western Ukraine.
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Rome
Rome (Italian and Roma) is the capital city of Italy.
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Royal city in Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
In the history of Poland, a royal city or royal town (miasto królewskie) was an urban settlement within the crown lands (królewszczyzna).
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Royal elections in Poland
Royal elections in Poland (Polish: wolna elekcja, lit. free election) were the elections of individual kings, rather than dynasties, to the Polish throne.
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Roztocze
Roztocze (translit) is a range of hills in east-central Poland and western Ukraine which rises from the Lublin Upland and extends southeastward through Solska Forest and across the border into Ukrainian Podolia.
Rudne
Rudne is a rural settlement in Lviv Raion, Lviv Oblast, western Ukraine.
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Rudolf Weigl
Rudolf Stefan Jan Weigl (2 September 1883 – 11 August 1957) was a Polish biologist, physician and inventor, known for creating the first effective vaccine against epidemic typhus.
Rugby union
Rugby union football, commonly known simply as rugby union or more often just rugby, is a close-contact team sport that originated at Rugby School in England in the first half of the 19th century.
Ruslana
Ruslana Stepanivna Lyzhychko (Руслана Степанівна Лижичко,; born 24 May 1973), known mononymously as Ruslana, is a Ukrainian singer, songwriter, dancer, producer, actress, activist, and former politician.
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Russian Empire
The Russian Empire was a vast empire that spanned most of northern Eurasia from its proclamation in November 1721 until its dissolution in March 1917.
Russian invasion of Ukraine
On 24 February 2022, in a major escalation of the Russo-Ukrainian War, which started in 2014.
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Russian language in Ukraine
Russian is the most common first language in the Donbas and Crimea regions of Ukraine and the city of Kharkiv, and the predominant language in large cities in the eastern and southern portions of the country.
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Russian strikes against Ukrainian infrastructure (2022–present)
During the autumn and winter of 2022–2023, Russia launched waves of missile and drone strikes against energy in Ukraine as part of its invasion.
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Russians
Russians (russkiye) are an East Slavic ethnic group native to Eastern Europe.
Ruthenian language
Ruthenian (ру́скаꙗ мо́ва or ру́скїй ѧзы́къ; see also other names) is an exonymic linguonym for a closely related group of East Slavic linguistic varieties, particularly those spoken from the 15th to 18th centuries in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and in East Slavic regions of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
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Ruthenian Voivodeship
The Ruthenian Voivodeship (Palatinatus russiae; Województwo ruskie; Ruske voievodstvo) was a voivodeship of the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland from 1434 until the First Partition of Poland in 1772, with its center in the city of Lwów (now Lviv).
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Ryszard Koncewicz
Ryszard Tadeusz Koncewicz (born 12 April 1911 in Lemberg; died 15 March 2001 in Warsaw) was a Polish soccer player as well as a coach.
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Rzeszów
Rzeszów is the largest city in southeastern Poland. It is located on both sides of the Wisłok River in the heartland of the Sandomierz Basin. Rzeszów is the capital of the Subcarpathian Voivodeship and the seat of Rzeszów County. The history of Rzeszów dates back to the Middle Ages. Lviv and Rzeszów are Ruthenian Voivodeship.
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Saint George
Saint George (Geṓrgios;Geʽez: ጊዮርጊስ, Geōrgius, გიორგი, Ge'orgiyos, Mar Giwargis, translit died 23 April 303), also George of Lydda, was an early Christian martyr who is venerated as a saint in Christianity.
Saints Peter and Paul Garrison Church (Lviv)
Saints Peter and Paul Garrison Church (Harnizonna tserkva svyatykh apostoliv Petra i Pavla), known as the Jesuit Church, is an historic church in Lviv, Ukraine, built in years 1610-1630.
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Schengen Area
The Schengen Area is an area encompassing European countries that have officially abolished border controls at their mutual borders.
School of thought
A school of thought, or intellectual tradition, is the perspective of a group of people who share common characteristics of opinion or outlook of a philosophy, discipline, belief, social movement, economics, cultural movement, or art movement.
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Schutzstaffel
The Schutzstaffel (SS; also stylised as ᛋᛋ with Armanen runes) was a major paramilitary organisation under Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party in Nazi Germany, and later throughout German-occupied Europe during World War II.
Scottish Café
The Scottish Café (Kawiarnia Szkocka) was a café in Lwów, Poland (now Lviv, Ukraine) where, in the 1930s and 1940s, mathematicians from the Lwów School of Mathematics collaboratively discussed research problems, particularly in functional analysis and topology.
Scottish diaspora
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Sea level
Mean sea level (MSL, often shortened to sea level) is an average surface level of one or more among Earth's coastal bodies of water from which heights such as elevation may be measured.
Second Polish Republic
The Second Polish Republic, at the time officially known as the Republic of Poland, was a country in Central and Eastern Europe that existed between 7 October 1918 and 6 October 1939.
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Sejm
The Sejm, officially known as the Sejm of the Republic of Poland (Sejm Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej), is the lower house of the bicameral parliament of Poland.
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Seljuk Empire
The Seljuk Empire, or the Great Seljuk Empire, was a high medieval, culturally Turco-Persian, Sunni Muslim empire, established and ruled by the Qïnïq branch of Oghuz Turks.
Semper fidelis
Semper fidelis is a Latin phrase that means "always faithful" or "always loyal" (Fidelis or Fidelity).
Sharhorod
Sharhorod (Ukrainian and Russian), also known as Shargorod, is a small city located within the Vinnytsia Oblast, Ukraine. Lviv and Sharhorod are Holocaust locations in Ukraine.
Shevchenkivskyi District, Lviv
Shevchenkivskyi District (Шевченківський район) is an urban district of the city of Lviv, named after Ukrainian poet and artist Taras Shevchenko.
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Shevchenko Scientific Society
The Shevchenko Scientific Society, founded in 1873, is a Ukrainian scientific society devoted to the promotion of scholarly research and publication.
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Sholem Aleichem
Solomon Naumovich Rabinovich (Соломон Наумович Рабинович; May 13, 1916), better known under his pen name Sholem Aleichem (Yiddish and שלום עליכם, also spelled in Soviet Yiddish,; Russian and Шо́лом-Але́йхем), was a Yiddish author and playwright who lived in the Russian Empire and in the United States.
Short story
A short story is a piece of prose fiction.
Sikorski–Mayski agreement
The Sikorski–Mayski agreement was a treaty between the Soviet Union and Poland that was signed in London on 30 July 1941.
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Siret
Siret (Sereth; Szeretvásár; Seret; Seret) is a town, municipality and former Latin bishopric in Suceava County, northeastern Romania.
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Sister city
A sister city or a twin town relationship is a form of legal or social agreement between two geographically and politically distinct localities for the purpose of promoting cultural and commercial ties.
Ski jumping
Ski jumping is a winter sport in which competitors aim to achieve the farthest jump after sliding down on their skis from a specially designed curved ramp.
Slavske
Slavsko (Славсько; Sławsko) is a rural settlement in Stryi Raion, Lviv Oblast, Ukraine.
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SMERSH
SMERSH (СМЕРШ) was an umbrella organization for three independent counter-intelligence agencies in the Red Army formed in late 1942 or even earlier, but officially announced only on 14 April 1943.
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Sociolect
In sociolinguistics, a sociolect is a form of language (non-standard dialect, restricted register) or a set of lexical items used by a socioeconomic class, profession, age group, or other social group.
Software
Software consists of computer programs that instruct the execution of a computer.
Solomiya Krushelnytska
Solomiya Amvrosiivna KrushelnytskaHer name is sometimes spelt as Solomiya Ambrosiyivna Krushelnytska, Salomea Krusceniski, Krushel'nytska or Kruszelnicka.
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Soviet dissidents
--> Soviet dissidents were people who disagreed with certain features of Soviet ideology or with its entirety and who were willing to speak out against them.
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Soviet invasion of Poland
The Soviet invasion of Poland was a military conflict by the Soviet Union without a formal declaration of war.
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Soviet Union
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.
St. George's Cathedral, Lviv
St. Lviv and St. George's Cathedral, Lviv are world Heritage Sites in Ukraine.
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St. Mary Magdalene High School No. 10 in Lviv
St.
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Standartenführer
Standartenführer (short: Staf) was a Nazi Party (NSDAP) paramilitary rank that was used in several NSDAP organizations, such as the SA, SS, NSKK and the NSFK.
Stanisław Głąbiński
Stanisław Głąbiński (25 February 1862 – 14 August 1941) was a Polish politician, academic, lawyer and writer.
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Stanisław Grabski
Stanisław Grabski (5 April 1871 – 6 May 1949) was a Polish economist and politician associated with the National Democracy political camp.
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Stanisław Ulam
Stanisław Marcin Ulam (13 April 1909 – 13 May 1984) was a Polish mathematician, nuclear physicist and computer scientist.
Stanisław Wyspiański
Stanisław Mateusz Ignacy Wyspiański (15 January 1869 – 28 November 1907) was a Polish playwright, painter and poet, as well as interior and furniture designer.
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Stanyslav Lyudkevych
Stanyslav Pylypovych Lyudkevych (Станіслав Пилипович Людкевич, Станислав Филиппович Людкевич; 24 January 1879 – 10 September 1979) was a Soviet and Ukrainian composer, theorist, teacher, and musical activist.
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Staple right
The staple right, also translated stacking right or storage right, both from the Dutch stapelrecht, was a medieval right accorded to certain ports, the staple ports.
Statistics Poland
Statistics Poland (Główny Urząd Statystyczny, popularly called GUS), formerly known in English as the Central Statistical Office, is the Polish government's chief executive agency charged with collecting and publishing statistics related to the economy, population, and society in Poland, at the national and local levels.
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Stefan Banach
Stefan Banach (30 March 1892 – 31 August 1945) was a Polish mathematician who is generally considered one of the 20th century's most important and influential mathematicians.
Stefan Bastyr
Stefan Bastyr (17 August 1890 – 6 August 1920) was a Polish aviator and military pilot, one of the pioneers of the Polish aviation.
Stefan Drzewiecki
Stefan Drzewiecki (Polish:; Джеве́цкий Степа́н Ка́рлович (Казими́рович); 26 July 1844, Kunka (ru), Podolia, Russian Empire (today Ukraine) – 23 April 1938, Paris) was a Polish scientist, journalist, engineer, constructor and inventor, known for designing and constructing the world's first electric-powered submarine.
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Stepan Bandera
Stepan Andriyovych Bandera (Степа́н Андрі́йович Банде́ра,; Stepan Andrijowycz Bandera; 1 January 1909 – 15 October 1959) was a Ukrainian far-right leader of the radical militant wing of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists, the OUN-B. Bandera was born in Austria-Hungary, in Galicia, into the family of a priest of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, and grew up in Poland.
Stockholm
Stockholm is the capital and most populous city of the Kingdom of Sweden as well as the largest urban area in the Nordic countries.
Street light
A street light, light pole, lamp pole, lamppost, street lamp, light standard, or lamp standard is a raised source of light on the edge of a road or path.
Sunshine duration
Sunshine duration or sunshine hours is a climatological indicator, measuring duration of sunshine in given period (usually, a day or a year) for a given location on Earth, typically expressed as an averaged value over several years.
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Surrealism
Surrealism is an art and cultural movement that developed in Europe in the aftermath of World War I in which artists aimed to allow the unconscious mind to express itself, often resulting in the depiction of illogical or dreamlike scenes and ideas.
Svitoch
Svitoch (Світоч) a Lviv-based Ukrainian confectionery manufacturer.
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Swastika
The swastika (卐 or 卍) is an ancient religious and cultural symbol, predominantly found in various Eurasian cultures, as well as some African and American ones.
Swedish Army
The Swedish Army (Svenska Armén) is the land force of the Swedish Armed Forces.
Swedish Empire
The Swedish Empire (stormaktstiden, "the Era as a Great Power") was the period in Swedish history spanning much of the 17th and early 18th centuries during which Sweden became a European great power that exercised territorial control over much of the Baltic region.
Sykhivskyi District
Sykhiv District (Сихівський район) is urban district of Lviv, named after the historical district of Sykhiv.
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Symon Petliura
Symon Vasyliovych Petliura (Симон Васильович Петлюра; – 25 May 1926) was a Ukrainian politician and journalist.
Synagogue
A synagogue, also called a shul or a temple, is a place of worship for Jews and Samaritans.
Szczecin
Szczecin (Stettin; Stettin; Sedinum or Stetinum) is the capital and largest city of the West Pomeranian Voivodeship in northwestern Poland. Lviv and Szczecin are magdeburg rights.
Tango of Death
Tango of Death was a Jewish orchestra in the Janowska concentration camp, located on what is now the outskirts of Lviv, Ukraine.
Taras Shevchenko
Taras Hryhorovych Shevchenko (Тарас Григорович Шевченко; 9 March 1814 – 10 March 1861) was a Ukrainian poet, writer, artist, public and political figure, folklorist and ethnographer.
TASS
The Russian News Agency TASS, or simply TASS, is a Russian state-owned news agency founded in 1904.
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Tbilisi
Tbilisi (თბილისი), in some languages still known by its pre-1936 name Tiflis, (tr) is the capital and largest city of Georgia, lying on the banks of the Kura River with a population of around 1.2 million people.
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Television set
A television set or television receiver (more commonly called TV, TV set, television, telly, or tele) is an electronic device for the purpose of viewing and hearing television broadcasts, or as a computer monitor.
At the end of World War II, Poland underwent major changes to the location of its international border.
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Territories of Poland annexed by the Soviet Union
Seventeen days after the German invasion of Poland in 1939, which marked the beginning of the Second World War, the Soviet Union entered the eastern regions of Poland (known as the Kresy) and annexed territories totalling with a population of 13,299,000.
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Tertiary education
Tertiary education, also referred to as third-level, third-stage or post-secondary education, is the educational level following the completion of secondary education.
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The Girl in the Green Sweater
The Girl in the Green Sweater: A Life in Holocaust’s Shadow, written by coauthors Krystyna Chiger and Daniel Paisner, was published by St. Martin’s Press in 2008.
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The Good Soldier Švejk
The Good Soldier Švejk is an unfinished satirical dark comedy novel by Czech writer Jaroslav Hašek, published in 1921–1923, about a good-humored, simple-minded, middle-aged man who appears to be enthusiastic to serve Austria-Hungary in World War I. The Good Soldier Švejk is the abbreviated title; the original Czech title of the work is Osudy dobrého vojáka Švejka za světové války, literally The Fateful Adventures of the Good Soldier Švejk During the World War.
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The Holocaust
The Holocaust was the genocide of European Jews during World War II.
The Holocaust in Ukraine
The Holocaust in Ukraine was the systematic mass murder of Jews in the Reichskommissariat Ukraine, the General Government, the Crimean General Government and some areas which were located to the East of Reichskommissariat Ukraine (all of those areas were under the military control of Nazi Germany), in the Transnistria Governorate and Bessarabia, Northern Bukovina and the Hertsa region (all of those areas were then part of Romania, with the latter three areas being re-annexed) and Carpathian Ruthenia (then part of Hungary) during World War II.
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The Lemberg Mosaic
The Lemberg Mosaic, subtitled the "Memoirs of Two who Survived the Destruction of Jewish Galicia", is a book on The Holocaust by Jakob Weiss.
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The New York Times
The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.
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The Peasants
The Peasants (Chłopi) is a novel written by the Polish author Władysław Reymont in four parts between 1904 and 1909.
The Shoes of the Fisherman
The Shoes of the Fisherman may refer to.
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The Shoes of the Fisherman (novel)
The Shoes of the Fisherman is a novel by the Australian writer Morris West first published in 1963.
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The Truce (1997 film)
The Truce (La Tregua) is a 1997 film directed by Francesco Rosi, who co-wrote the screenplay with Stefano Rulli and Sandro Petraglia, and its story treatment with Tonino Guerra based on Primo Levi's memoir, The Truce.
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The Vagabonds (1939 film)
The Vagabonds (Polish: Włóczęgi) is a 1939 Polish comedy film directed by Michał Waszyński and starring Kazimierz Wajda, Henryk Vogelfänger (popular Polish Radio duet Szczepko & Tońko) and Stanisława Wysocka.
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The Washington Post
The Washington Post, locally known as "the Post" and, informally, WaPo or WP, is an American daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C., the national capital.
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Thermonuclear weapon
A thermonuclear weapon, fusion weapon or hydrogen bomb (H bomb) is a second-generation nuclear weapon design.
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Tourism
Tourism is travel for pleasure, and the commercial activity of providing and supporting such travel.
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Tower block
A tower block, high-rise, apartment tower, residential tower, apartment block, block of flats, or office tower is a tall building, as opposed to a low-rise building and is defined differently in terms of height depending on the jurisdiction.
Track and field
Athletics (or track and field in the United States) is a sport that includes athletic contests based on running, jumping, and throwing skills.
Trade show
A trade show, also known as trade fair, trade exhibition, or trade exposition, is an exhibition organized so that companies in a specific industry can showcase and demonstrate their latest products and services, meet with industry partners and customers, study activities of competitors, and examine recent market trends and opportunities.
Tram
A tram (also known as a streetcar or trolley in the United States and Canada) is a type of urban rail transit consisting of either individual railcars or self-propelled multiple unit trains that run on tramway tracks on urban public streets; some include segments on segregated right-of-way.
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Trams in Lviv
The Lviv tramway network (Львівський трамвай, translit.: L’vivs’kyi tramvai) is an electric tram in Lviv, Ukraine.
Treaty of Warsaw (1920)
The Treaty of Warsaw (also the Polish-Ukrainian or Petliura-Piłsudski Alliance or Agreement) of April 1920 was a military-economical alliance between the Second Polish Republic, represented by Józef Piłsudski, and the Ukrainian People's Republic, represented by Symon Petliura, against Bolshevik Russia.
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Trolleybus
A trolleybus (also known as trolley bus, trolley coach, trackless trolley, trackless tramin the 1910s and 1920sJoyce, J.; King, J. S.; and Newman, A. G. (1986). British Trolleybus Systems, pp. 9, 12. London: Ian Allan Publishing..or trolleyDunbar, Charles S. (1967). Buses, Trolleys & Trams. Paul Hamlyn Ltd.
Tsardom of Russia
The Tsardom of Russia, also known as the Tsardom of Muscovy, was the centralized Russian state from the assumption of the title of tsar by Ivan IV in 1547 until the foundation of the Russian Empire by Peter the Great in 1721. From 1550 to 1700, Russia grew by an average of per year. The period includes the upheavals of the transition from the Rurik to the Romanov dynasties, wars with the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, Sweden, and the Ottoman Empire, and the Russian conquest of Siberia, to the reign of Peter the Great, who took power in 1689 and transformed the tsardom into an empire.
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Tsori Gilod Synagogue
The Tsori Gilod Synagogue, known in more recent times as Beis Aharon V'Yisrael Synagogue (transliterated from Hebrew as "The House of Aaron and Israel"), is an Orthodox Jewish synagogue, located at 4 Brativ Mikhnovskykh Street, in Lviv, in the Lviv Oblast of Ukraine.
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Typhus
Typhus, also known as typhus fever, is a group of infectious diseases that include epidemic typhus, scrub typhus, and murine typhus.
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Typhus vaccine
Typhus vaccines are vaccines developed to protect against typhus.
UEFA Euro 2012
The 2012 UEFA European Football Championship, commonly referred to as UEFA Euro 2012 or simply Euro 2012, was the 14th European Championship for men's national football teams organised by UEFA.
Ukraina Stadium
Ukraina Stadium (стадіон Україна) is a multi-purpose stadium in Lviv, Ukraine.
Ukraine
Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe.
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Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church
The Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church (UAOC; Ukrayinska avtokefalna pravoslavna tserkva (UAPTs)) was one of the three major Eastern Orthodox churches in Ukraine in the late 20th and early 21st centuries, together with the Ukrainian Orthodox Church – Kyiv Patriarchate (UOC-KP) and the Ukrainian Orthodox Church – Moscow Patriarchate (UOC-MP).
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Ukrainian Baroque
Ukrainian Baroque (Українське бароко), also known as Cossack Baroque (Козацьке бароко) or Mazepa Baroque, is an architectural style that was widespread in the Ukrainian lands in the 17th and 18th centuries.
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Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Lviv
The Archeparchy of Lviv is an ecclesiastical territory or ecclesiastical province of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church — a particular Eastern Catholic Church, that is located in Ukraine.
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Ukrainian Catholic University
The Ukrainian Catholic University (translit) is a Catholic university in Lviv, Ukraine, affiliated with the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church.
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Ukrainian cooperative movement
The Ukrainian Cooperative Movement was a movement that addressed the economic plight of the Ukrainian people through the creation of financial, agricultural and trade cooperatives that enabled Ukrainians (primarily peasants) to pool their resources, to obtain less expensive loans and insurance, and to pay less for products such as farm equipment.
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Ukrainian folk music
Ukrainian folk music includes a number of varieties of traditional, folkloric, folk-inspired popular music, and folk-inspired European classical music traditions.
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Ukrainian Galician Army
Ukrainian Galician Army (translit, UHA), was the Ukrainian military of the West Ukrainian People's Republic during and after the Polish-Ukrainian War.
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Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church
The Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church (UGCC) is a major archiepiscopal sui iuris ("autonomous") Eastern Catholic church that is based in Ukraine.
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Ukrainian hryvnia
The (гривня,: грн hrn; sign: ₴; code: UAH) has been the national currency of Ukraine since 2 September 1996.
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Ukrainian Insurgent Army
The Ukrainian Insurgent Army (translit, abbreviated UPA) was a Ukrainian nationalist paramilitary and partisan formation founded by the Organisation of Ukrainian Nationalists on 14 October 1942.
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Ukrainian language
Ukrainian (label) is an East Slavic language of the Indo-European language family spoken primarily in Ukraine.
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Ukrainian Latin alphabet
The Ukrainian Latin alphabet (Ukrajińśka latynyća or Латинка, Latynka) is the form of the Latin script used for writing, transliteration and retransliteration of Ukrainian.
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Ukrainian literature
Ukrainian literature is literature written in the Ukrainian language.
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Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate)
The Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC), commonly referred to by the exonym Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate (UOC-MP), is an Eastern Orthodox church in Ukraine.
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Ukrainian Orthodox Church – Kyiv Patriarchate
The Ukrainian Orthodox Church – Kyiv Patriarchate (UOC-KP; Ukrainska Pravoslavna Tserkva — Kyivskyi Patriarkhat (UPTs-KP)) was an Orthodox church in Ukraine, in existence from 1992 to 2018.
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Ukrainian People's Republic
The Ukrainian People's Republic (UPR) was a short-lived state in Eastern Europe.
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Ukrainian Premier League
The Ukrainian Premier League ("Українська Прем'єр-ліга", Ukrainska Premier Liha) or UPL is the highest division of Ukrainian annual football championship.
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Ukrainian Second League
The Ukrainian Second League (Друга ліга, Druha Liha) is a professional football league in Ukraine which is part of the Professional Football League of Ukraine, a collective member of the Ukrainian Association of Football.
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Ukrainian Sich Riflemen
Legion of Ukrainian Sich Riflemen (Ukrainische Sitschower Schützen; translit) was a Ukrainian unit within the Austro-Hungarian Army during the First World War.
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The Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic (Ukrainska Radianska Sotsialistychna Respublika; Ukrainskaya Sovetskaya Sotsialisticheskaya Respublika), abbreviated as the Ukrainian SSR, UkSSR, and also known as Soviet Ukraine or just Ukraine, was one of the constituent republics of the Soviet Union from 1922 until 1991.
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Ukrainians
Ukrainians (ukraintsi) are a civic nation and an ethnic group native to Ukraine.
Ukrainization
Ukrainization (also spelled Ukrainisation; Ukrainizatsiia) is a policy or practice of increasing the usage and facilitating the development of the Ukrainian language and promoting other elements of Ukrainian culture in various spheres of public life such as education, publishing, government, and religion.
UNESCO
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO; pronounced) is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) with the aim of promoting world peace and security through international cooperation in education, arts, sciences and culture.
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Union of Active Struggle
The Union of Active Struggle (Związek Walki Czynnej; ZWC), also translated as Union for Active Struggle and Union for Active Resistance, was a Polish secret military organization founded in June 1908 in Lwów by Józef Piłsudski, Marian Kukiel, Kazimierz Sosnkowski and Władysław Sikorski, all members of the Combat Organization of the Polish Socialist Party in the Kingdom of Poland.
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Union of Brest
The Union of Brest took place in 1595-1596 and represented an agreement by Eastern Orthodox Churches in the Ruthenian portions of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth to accept the Pope's authority while maintaining Eastern Orthodox liturgical practices, leading to the formation of the Ruthenian Uniate Church, which currently exists as the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church and the Belarusian Greek Catholic Church.
Union of Lublin Mound
Union of Lublin Mound (Копець Люблінської унії; Kopiec Unii Lubelskiej) is an artificial hill, 29 m high, in Lviv, modern day Ukraine created in 1869-1890 by Polish inhabitants to commemorate the 300th anniversary of the Union of Lublin by initiative and with financial support of Franciszek Smolka.
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United States dollar
The United States dollar (symbol: $; currency code: USD; also abbreviated US$ to distinguish it from other dollar-denominated currencies; referred to as the dollar, U.S. dollar, American dollar, or colloquially buck) is the official currency of the United States and several other countries.
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University
A university is an institution of higher (or tertiary) education and research which awards academic degrees in several academic disciplines.
University of Florence
The University of Florence (Italian: Università degli Studi di Firenze) (in acronym UNIFI) is an Italian public research university located in Florence, Italy.
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University of Lviv
The Ivan Franko National University of Lviv (Lvivskyi natsionalnyi universytet imeni Ivana Franka) is a public university in Lviv, Ukraine.
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University of Toronto Press
The University of Toronto Press is a Canadian university press.
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Urban districts of Ukraine
An urban district or urban raion (miskyi raion) is the second-level administrative division in certain cities in Ukraine.
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USSR anti-religious campaign (1958–1964)
Nikita Khrushchev's anti-religious campaign was the last large-scale anti-religious campaign undertaken in the Soviet Union.
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Vasyl Ivanchuk
Vasyl Mykhailovych Ivanchuk (Василь Михайлович Іванчук; born March 18, 1969), is a Ukrainian chess grandmaster.
Vehicle registration plate
A vehicle registration plate, also known as a number plate (British, Indian and Australian English) or license plate (American English) or licence plate (Canadian English), is a metal or plastic plate attached to a motor vehicle or trailer for official identification purposes.
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Venera
The Venera ('Venus') program was a series of space probes developed by the Soviet Union between 1961 and 1984 to gather information about the planet Venus.
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Venice
Venice (Venezia; Venesia, formerly Venexia) is a city in northeastern Italy and the capital of the Veneto region. Lviv and Venice are historic Jewish communities.
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Veterinary medicine
Veterinary medicine is the branch of medicine that deals with the prevention, management, diagnosis, and treatment of disease, disorder, and injury in non-human animals.
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Vienna
Vienna (Wien; Austro-Bavarian) is the capital, most populous city, and one of nine federal states of Austria.
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Vienna Secession
The Vienna Secession (Wiener Secession; also known as the Union of Austrian Artists or Vereinigung Bildender Künstler Österreichs) is an art movement, closely related to Art Nouveau, that was formed in 1897 by a group of Austrian painters, graphic artists, sculptors and architects, including Josef Hoffman, Koloman Moser, Otto Wagner and Gustav Klimt.
Vienna State Opera
The Vienna State Opera is a historic opera house and opera company based in Vienna, Austria.
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Viktor Yanukovych
Viktor Fedorovych Yanukovych (born 9 July 1950) is a former Ukrainian politician who served as the fourth president of Ukraine from 2010 to 2014.
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Viktor Yushchenko
Viktor Andriiovych Yushchenko (Віктор Андрійович Ющенко,; born 23 February 1954) is a Ukrainian politician who was the third president of Ukraine from 23 January 2005 to 25 February 2010.
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Vilnius
Vilnius, previously known in English as Vilna, is the capital of and largest city in Lithuania and the second-most-populous city in the Baltic states. Lviv and Vilnius are historic Jewish communities and magdeburg rights.
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Virtuti Militari
The War Order of Virtuti Militari (Latin: "For Military Virtue", Order Wojenny Virtuti Militari) is Poland's highest military decoration for heroism and courage in the face of the enemy at war.
Vladislaus II of Opole
Vladislaus II of Opole (Władysław Opolczyk, Wladislaus von Oppeln, Oppelni László, Владислав Опольчик; ca. 1332 – 18 May 1401), nicknamed Naderspan, was Duke of Opole from 1356, Count palatine of Hungary (1367–1372), Duke of Wieluń (1370–1392), Governor of Ruthenia (1372–1378), Count palatine of Poland (1378) as well as Duke of Dobrzyń, Inowrocław (1378–1392), Krnov and Kuyavia (1385–1392).
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Voivode
Voivode, also spelled voivod, voievod or voevod and also known as vaivode, voivoda, vojvoda or wojewoda, is a title denoting a military leader or warlord in Central, Southeastern and Eastern Europe in use since the Early Middle Ages.
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Volodymyr Kubijovyč
Volodymyr Kubijovyč (also spelled Kubiiovych or Kubiyovych; translit; 23 September 1900 – 2 November 1985) was an anthropological geographer in prewar Poland, a wartime Ukrainian nationalist politician, a Nazi collaborator and a post-war émigré intellectual of mixed Ukrainian-Polish background.
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Volodymyr, Volyn Oblast
Volodymyr (Володимир), previously known as Volodymyr-Volynskyi (label) from 1944 to 2021, is a small city in Volyn Oblast, northwestern Ukraine. Lviv and Volodymyr, Volyn Oblast are cities of regional significance in Ukraine, Holocaust locations in Ukraine and magdeburg rights.
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Vynnyky
Vynnyky (Винники,, Winniki) is a small city in Lviv Raion, Lviv Oblast (region) of Ukraine. Lviv and Vynnyky are cities in Lviv Oblast.
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Vysoky Zamok (newspaper)
Vysoky Zamok (lit) or VZ is a leading Ukrainian daily socio-political newspaper published in Lviv, in the western part of the country.
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Wacław Kuchar
Wacław Michał Kuchar (16 September 1897 – 13 February 1981) was a Polish sports champion, olympian, and multiple football, track and field and speed skating champion of the country.
War in Donbas
The war in Donbas, or Donbas war, was a phase of the Russo-Ukrainian War in the Donbas region of Ukraine.
Warsaw
Warsaw, officially the Capital City of Warsaw, is the capital and largest city of Poland. Lviv and Warsaw are populated places established in the 13th century.
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Würzburg
Würzburg (Main-Franconian: Wörtzburch) is, after Nuremberg and Fürth, the third-largest city in Franconia located in the north of Bavaria.
Władysław II Jagiełło
Jogaila (1 June 1434), later Władysław II Jagiełło,He is known under a number of names: Jogaila Algirdaitis; Władysław II Jagiełło; Jahajła (Ягайла).
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Władysław Orkan
Władysław Orkan (27 November 1875 – 14 May 1930) (born Franciszek Ksawery Smaciarz, later changed to Smreczyński, also known under his pen name, Orkan) was a Polish Goral writer and poet from the Young Poland period.
Władysław Reymont
Władysław Stanisław Reymont (born Rejment; 7 May 1867 – 5 December 1925) was a Polish novelist and the laureate of the 1924 Nobel Prize in Literature.
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Władysław Sadłowski
Władysław Sadłowski (June 25, 1869 in Lviv – May 25, 1940 in Lviv) was a Polish architect, a representative of historicism and Art Nouveau and a graduate of the Lwów Technical Academy.
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Władysław Sikorski
Władysław Eugeniusz Sikorski (20 May 18814 July 1943) was a Polish military and political leader.
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Włodzimierz Chomicki
Włodzimierz Michał Chomicki (19 April 1878 — 12 July 1953) was a teacher and amateur association football player.
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Wehrmacht
The Wehrmacht were the unified armed forces of Nazi Germany from 1935 to 1945.
Wesoła Lwowska Fala
Wesoła Lwowska Fala (Polish for Lwów's Merry Wave) was a weekly radio program of the Polish Radio Lwow, broadcast every Sunday by the Polish Radio.
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West Ukrainian People's Republic
The West Ukrainian People's Republic or West Ukrainian National Republic (translit; abbreviated, also WUNR or WUPR), known for part of its existence as the Western Oblast of the Ukrainian People's Republic (label or), was a short-lived polity that controlled most of Eastern Galicia from November 1918 to July 1919.
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Western Ukraine
Western Ukraine (Zakhidna Ukraina) or West Ukraine refers to the western territories of Ukraine.
White Croats
The White Croats (Bijeli Hrvati; Biali Chorwaci; Bílí Chorvati; Bili khorvaty), also known simply as Croats, were a group of Early Slavic tribes that lived between East Slavic and West Slavic tribes in the historical region of Galicia north of the Carpathian Mountains (in modern Western Ukraine and Southeastern-Southern Poland), and possibly in Northeastern Bohemia.
Win with the Lion
"Win with the Lion" (Ukrainian: Перемагай з Левом) is an annual tourism conference held in Lviv, Ukraine, each autumn.
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Winnipeg
Winnipeg is the capital and largest city of the province of Manitoba in Canada.
Winston Churchill
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (30 November 187424 January 1965) was a British statesman, soldier, and writer who was twice Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, from 1940 to 1945 during the Second World War, and 1951 to 1955.
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Wojciech Bartosz Głowacki
Wojciech Bartos(z) Głowacki (1758–1794), known also as Bartosz Głowacki, was a Polish peasant and the most famous member of the kosynierzy (peasant volunteer infantry) during the Kościuszko Uprising in 1794.
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Wojciech Kilar
Wojciech Kilar (17 July 1932 – 29 December 2013) was a Polish classical and film music composer.
World Bank Group
The World Bank Group (WBG) is a family of five international organizations that make leveraged loans to developing countries.
World Heritage Site
World Heritage Sites are landmarks and areas with legal protection by an international convention administered by UNESCO for having cultural, historical, or scientific significance.
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World War I
World War I (alternatively the First World War or the Great War) (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918) was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies (or Entente) and the Central Powers.
World War II
World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.
Wrocław
Wrocław (Breslau; also known by other names) is a city in southwestern Poland and the largest city in the historical region of Silesia. Lviv and Wrocław are magdeburg rights.
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Yalta Conference
The Yalta Conference (Yaltinskaya konferentsiya), held 4–11 February 1945, was the World War II meeting of the heads of government of the United States, the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union to discuss the postwar reorganization of Germany and Europe.
Yaroslav Stetsko
Yaroslav Semenovych Stetsko (19 January 1912 – 5 July 1986) was a Ukrainian politician, writer and ideologist who served as the leader of Stepan Bandera's faction of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists, the OUN-B, from 1941 until his death.
Yavoriv military base attack
The Yavoriv military base was attacked by Russian forces on 13 March 2022 as part of the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022.
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Yiddish
Yiddish (ייִדיש, יידיש or אידיש, yidish or idish,,; ייִדיש-טײַטש, historically also Yidish-Taytsh) is a West Germanic language historically spoken by Ashkenazi Jews.
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YIVO
YIVO (ייִוואָ) is an organization that preserves, studies, and teaches the cultural history of Jewish life throughout Eastern Europe, Germany, and Russia as well as orthography, lexicography, and other studies related to Yiddish.
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YouTube
YouTube is an American online video sharing platform owned by Google.
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Zaliznychnyi District, Lviv
Zaliznýčnyj District (Залізни́чний райо́н) is an urban district of the city of Lviv, named after the Lviv railway station (залізниця, zaliznytsia means railway).
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Zamarstyniv
Zamarstyniv (Замарстинів, Zamarstynów) is one of the boroughs of the city of Lviv in western Ukraine. Lviv and Zamarstyniv are Holocaust locations in Ukraine.
Zamość
Zamość (Zamoshtsh; Zamoscia) is a historical city in southeastern Poland. Lviv and Zamość are Ruthenian Voivodeship.
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Zaporozhian Cossacks
The Zaporozhian Cossacks, Zaporozhian Cossack Army, Zaporozhian Host, (or label) or simply Zaporozhians (translit-std) were Cossacks who lived beyond (that is, downstream from) the Dnieper Rapids.
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Zbruch
The Zbruch (Збруч; Zbrucz) is a river in Western Ukraine, a left tributary of the Dniester.
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Znesinnia Regional Landscape Park
Znesinnya Regional Landscape Park (Регіональний ландшафтний парк "Знесіння") is the largest park in Lviv, Ukraine.
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Zygmunt Janiszewski
Zygmunt Janiszewski (12 July 1888 – 3 January 1920) was a Polish mathematician.
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14th century
The 14th century lasted from 1 January 1301 (represented by the Roman numerals MCCCI) to 31 December 1400 (MCD).
1912 Summer Olympics
The 1912 Summer Olympics (Olympiska sommarspelen 1912), officially known as the Games of the V Olympiad (Den V olympiadens spel) and commonly known as Stockholm 1912, were an international multi-sport event held in Stockholm, Sweden, between 5 May and 22 July 1912.
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2001 Ukrainian census
The 2001 Ukrainian census is to date the only census of the population of independent Ukraine.
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2004 Ukrainian presidential election
Presidential elections were held in Ukraine on 31 October, 21 November and 26 December 2004.
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2019 Ukrainian presidential election
Presidential elections were held in Ukraine on 31 March 2019.
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2019–20 Ukrainian Premier League
The 2019–20 Ukrainian Premier League season was the 29th top-level football club competitions since the fall of the Soviet Union and the 12th since the establishment of the Ukrainian Premier League.
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2022 Winter Olympics
The 2022 Winter Olympics, officially called the XXIV Olympic Winter Games and commonly known as Beijing 2022 (北京2022), were an international winter multi-sport event held from 4 to 20 February 2022 in Beijing, China, and surrounding areas with competition in selected events beginning 2 February 2022.
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2026 Winter Olympics
The 2026 Winter Olympics (Olimpiadi invernali del 2026), officially the XXV Olympic Winter Games (XXV Giochi olimpici invernali) and also known as Milano Cortina 2026, is an upcoming international multi-sport event scheduled to take place from 6 to 22 February 2026 in three different regions and many locations, with the Italian cities of Milan and Cortina d'Ampezzo as the main ones.
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3rd Guards Tank Army
The 3rd Guards Tank Army (3-я гвардейская танковая армия) was a tank army established by the Soviet Union's Red Army during World War II.
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84th Academy Awards
The 84th Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), honored the best films of 2011 in the United States and took place on February 26, 2012, at the Hollywood and Highland Center Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles beginning at 5:30 p.m. PST / 8:30 p.m.
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See also
13th-century establishments in Europe
- Assen
- Astvatsankal Monastery
- Dubrovnik Archive
- Duchy of Białogarda
- Duchy of Gdańsk
- Duchy of Lubiszewo
- Duchy of Świecie
- Duchy of Świecie and Lubiszewo
- Geghard
- Latin Bishopric of Modon
- Latin Bishopric of Salona
- Livonian Order
- Lviv
- Pomerania-Stettin
- Pomerania-Wolgast
- Port of Amsterdam
- Prince-Bishopric of Warmia
- Province of 24 Szepes Towns
- Roman Catholic Diocese of Hierapetra and Sitia
- Roman Catholic Diocese of Retimo–Ario
- Roman Catholic Diocese of Tinos and Mykonos
- Schaaken Castle
- Seat of the 10 Lance-bearers
- Stedelijk Gymnasium Leiden
- Ter Hage Abbey
- Villages with fortified churches in Transylvania
- Westfriese Omringdijk
Cities in Lviv Oblast
- Belz
- Bibrka
- Boryslav
- Brody
- Busk, Ukraine
- Chervonohrad
- Dobromyl
- Drohobych
- Dubliany, Lviv Raion, Lviv Oblast
- Hlyniany
- Horodok, Lviv Oblast
- Kamianka-Buzka
- Khodoriv
- Khyriv
- Komarno, Ukraine
- List of cities in Lviv Oblast
- Lviv
- Morshyn
- Mostyska
- Mykolaiv, Lviv Oblast
- Novoiavorivsk
- Novyi Kalyniv
- Novyi Rozdil
- Peremyshliany
- Pustomyty
- Radekhiv
- Rava-Ruska
- Rudky
- Sambir
- Skole
- Sokal
- Sosnivka
- Staryi Sambir
- Stebnyk
- Stryi
- Sudova Vyshnia
- Truskavets
- Turka, Ukraine
- Uhniv
- Velyki Mosty
- Vynnyky
- Yavoriv
- Zhovkva
- Zhydachiv
- Zolochiv, Lviv Oblast
Kingdom of Galicia–Volhynia
- Battle of Jarosław (1245)
- Battle of Zawichost
- Batu's raid of 1240 in Ruthenia
- Chełm Land
- Crown of Rus
- Galicia (Eastern Europe)
- Galicia–Volhynia Wars
- Galician school (architecture)
- Great City Synagogue (Lviv)
- Kingdom of Galicia–Volhynia
- Kraków campaign of Leo I of Galicia
- List of wars and battles involving Galicia–Volhynia
- Lviv
- Plisnesk archaeological complex
- Ratne
- Siege of Kiev (1240)
- Volhynia
Magdeburg rights
- Bardejov
- Biecz
- Brody
- Buchach
- Chernivtsi
- German town law
- Grodno
- Hraniv
- Humenné
- Ivano-Frankivsk
- Kaunas
- Kraków
- Krupina
- Kyiv
- Lutsk
- Lviv
- Magdeburg rights
- Minsk
- Monument to Magdeburg Rights (Kyiv)
- Nizhyn
- Polotsk
- Potelych
- Poznań
- Prienai
- Prudnik
- Ratusz
- Rohatyn
- Ropczyce
- Sanok, Poland
- Sniatyn
- Szczecin
- Trakai
- Vilnius
- Volodymyr, Volyn Oblast
- Wrocław
- Yazlovets
- Zhukiv, Ternopil Oblast
- Złotoryja
- Łódź
Oblast centers in Ukraine
- Cherkasy
- Chernihiv
- Chernivtsi
- Dnipro
- Donetsk
- Ivano-Frankivsk
- Kharkiv
- Kherson
- Khmelnytskyi
- Kropyvnytskyi
- Kyiv
- Luhansk
- Lutsk
- Lviv
- Mykolaiv
- Odesa
- Poltava
- Rivne
- Sumy
- Ternopil
- Uzhhorod
- Vinnytsia
- Zaporizhzhia
- Zhytomyr
World Heritage Sites in Ukraine
- Ancient and Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians and Other Regions of Europe
- Bell Tower of Saint Sophia Cathedral
- Carpathian Biosphere Reserve
- Chersonesus
- Church of the Archangel Michael, Uzhok
- Church of the Saviour at Berestove
- Descent of the Holy Spirit Church
- Golden Rose Synagogue (Lviv)
- Gorgany Nature Reserve
- Historic Centre of Odesa
- Holy Trinity Church, Zhovkva
- Kyiv Pechersk Lavra
- List of World Heritage Sites in Ukraine
- Lviv
- Old Town (Lviv)
- Podilski Tovtry National Nature Park
- Residence of Bukovinian and Dalmatian Metropolitans
- Roztochia Biosphere Reserve
- Saint Sophia Cathedral, Kyiv
- St. George's Cathedral, Lviv
- Struve Geodetic Arc
- Synevyr National Nature Park
- Uholka-Shyrokyi Luh primeval beech forest
- Uzh National Nature Park
- Wooden Tserkvas of the Carpathian Region in Poland and Ukraine
- Wooden tserkvas of Carpathian region in Poland and Ukraine
- Zacharovanyi Krai National Nature Park
References
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