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* [[Battle of Lwów (1939)]] - Lwów besieged by Germany during the [[Invasion of Poland (1939)|Polish Defensive War]] of 1939 at the outbreak of [[World War II]]; capitulated to the [[Soviet Union]] |
* [[Battle of Lwów (1939)]] - Lwów besieged by Germany during the [[Invasion of Poland (1939)|Polish Defensive War]] of 1939 at the outbreak of [[World War II]]; capitulated to the [[Soviet Union]] |
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* [[Lviv-Sandomierz Offensive]] - A 1944 offensive by the Soviet Union against Germany. |
* [[Lviv-Sandomierz Offensive]] - A 1944 offensive by the Soviet Union against Germany. |
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* [[Battle of Lviv (1944)]] - Also known as the Lviv Uprising, the city captured by the [[Armia Krajowa]] and the [[Soviet Union]] during [[World War II]] |
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Revision as of 10:35, 8 July 2010
During its long and complicated history, the city of Lviv (Lwów, Lvov, Leopolis, Lemberg) was the site of several major battles and sieges. Among the most notable were:
- Battle of Lviv (1648) - Lviv besieged by Cossack forces under Bohdan Khmelnytsky
- Battle of Lviv (1655) - Lviv besieged by the forces of Bohdan Khmelnytsky and the Moscovite army
- Battle of Lviv (1672) - Lviv besieged by the armies of sultan Mehmed IV
- Battle of Lviv (1675) - Ottoman armies defeated by Hussars under hetman Stanisław Jan Jabłonowski
- Battle of Lviv (1694) - Ottoman armies defeated by Poles under John III Sobieski
- Battle of Lviv (1704) - Lviv captured and looted by Sweden during the Great Northern War
- Battle of Lviv (1809) - the city captured from the Austrians by the Polish cavalry
- Battle of Lemberg (1914) - Lemberg captured by Russia at the outbreak of World War I
- Battle of Lemberg (1915) - Lvov recaptured by Austria-Hungary
- Battle of Lviv (1918) - City fights between the local Polish inhabitants and the forces of West Ukrainian People's Republic
- Battle of Lwów (1920) - Fights of several weeks' duration at the outskirts of the city between the Polish Army and the Red Army during the Polish-Bolshevik War
- Battle of Lwów (1939) - Lwów besieged by Germany during the Polish Defensive War of 1939 at the outbreak of World War II; capitulated to the Soviet Union
- Lviv-Sandomierz Offensive - A 1944 offensive by the Soviet Union against Germany.
- Battle of Lviv (1944) - Also known as the Lviv Uprising, the city captured by the Armia Krajowa and the Soviet Union during World War II