Battle of Lwów

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