1. Lviv, Polish Lwów, German Lemberg, Russian Lvov, city, western Ukraine was founded in the mid-15th century by Prince Daniel Romanovich of Galicia.

2. Lviv has historically been the chief centre of Galicia.

3. Lviv was seized briefly by the Cossacks in 1648.

4. The government of the short-lived Western Ukrainian National Republic arose in Lviv in 1924.

5. After German occupation, Lviv was annexed by the Soviets in 1945.

6. Lviv is a major publishing and cultural centre, especially of Ukrainian culture, which flourished there in tsarist times when it was suppressed in Russian Ukraine.

7. The university, which was founded in 1661 and named for the Ukrainian poet and journalist Taras Shevchenko under the Soviet regime, is one of the institutions of higher education and research in the city.