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Lviv

an industrial city in W Ukraine: it has belonged to Poland (1340--1772; 1919--39), Austria (1772--1918), Germany (1939--45), and the Soviet Union (1945--91); Ukrainian cultural centre, with a university (1661). Pop.: 719 000 (2005 est.)
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Ludwig Elle (Bautzen) u svome prilogu usporeduje politiku prema manjinama u Njemackoj, Poljskoj i Ceskoj, dok Ljudmila Vasiljeva (L'viv /Lavov/) opisuje stanje suvremene sorabistike na Lavovskom sveucilistu.
"Organization of self-studying of students in conditions of kredit and module education," Visnyk of L'viv university [[TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII]], in Ukrainian, pp.332
Leopold Sacher-Masoch was born in 1836 in Lemberg, the capital of Galicia, a province of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, now L'viv of Ukraine.
Petersburg, Russia; Ivan Franko University at L'viv, Ukraine; and the US.
Summary: TEHRAN (FNA)- Head of Ukraine's L'viv Regional State Administration Mykhailo Tsymbaliuk called on Iranian investors to play a stronger and bigger role in his country's oil exploitation projects.
She accompanied University of L'viv professor Ivan Denysiuk on an expedition to northwestern Polissia, collecting folklore about rusalky (river mermaids) along with wedding songs, songs of lamentation, and other folk songs.
But its residents were occasionally able to travel to "free" cities such as L'viv in western Ukraine, where they could meet tourists from Poland and Yugoslavia hawking tapes and records of Western music.
After nearly a twohour wait at the border with surly officers going through our papers, we negotiate the potholes towards L'viv, Ukraine's oldest town.
A320 service will be to L'viv (four-times-weekly), Kharkov (four-times-weekly), Odessa (daily), Zaporyzhzhia (thrice-weekly) and Simferopol (10-times-weekly).
Kiev and L'viv and Odessa and a couple of other places have interesting sites, of course.
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