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| | Lviv Oblast - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | It was ruled variously by Great Moravia, Kyivan Rus', the independent Ukrainian state of Halych-Volynia (circa 1200â“1400, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (circa 1400â“ 1795, the Austro-Hungarian Empire from 1795 to 1918 and Poland from 1918- 1939, when it was part of the Lwów Voivodship of the Second Republic of Poland. |
 | | The region and its capital city take their name from the time of Halych-Volynia, when Danylo, the King of Rus' founded L'viv, naming the city after his son, Lev (Leo). |
 | | The terrain of L'viv Oblast is highly varied, ranging from open steppes to dense forests, with intensively cultivated river basins and forested mountains. |
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