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  Lviv biography .ms   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
In 1672 Lwów was again besieged by the Turkish army of Mehmed IV, however the Treaty of Buczacz ended the war before the city was taken.
In 1675 the city was attacked by the Ottomans and the Tatars, but king John III Sobieski defeated them on August 24 in what is called the Battle of Lwow.
Nazi forces invaded Poland on 1st September 1939 and the German First Highland Division reached the suburbs of Lwow (as Lviv was called) on 12th September and began a siege.
lvov.biography.ms   (2913 words)

  
 Lviv   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The Soviet and Nazi forces divided Poland between themselves and a forged plebiscite absorbed the Soviet half of Poland, including Lwow, into the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic.
Also the Polish population of the City was subject to harsh policies, which resulted in a number of mass executions both in the City and in the Janów camp.
Among the first to be murdered were the professors of the city's universities and Other members of Polish inteligentsia.
lviv.iqnaut.net   (3220 words)

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