Central L'viv (Latin Cathedral and Ploshcha Rynok) Lviv (also
spelled L'viv and Львів; Polish: Lwów, German: Lemberg; also
known as Lvov, its Russianized name used during Soviet era) is
in Western Ukraine and used to be the Capital of East Galicia.
The biggest city of the region and major Ukrainian cultural
center. The historic city center is on the UNESCO World Heritage
List. The city has a multicultural history. It was founded in
1256 by King Daniel of Galicia and fell under Polish control in
the 14th century. Poles, Jews, Ukrainians, Germans and others
lived there together for centuries. The Polish king John II
Casimir founded the Lviv University in the 17th century and Lviv
(known as Lwów) was by that time one of the most important
cities in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, along with Krakow,
Warsaw, Gdansk and Vilnius. In 1772 the city was taken by the
Habsburgs and in Austrian times it was known under the name of
Lemberg, the capital of Galicia. After the dissolution of the
Austro-Hungarian Empire in