L’vivs’ka Oblast’

Lviv Oblast (Ukrainian: Льві́вська о́бласть, Ukrainian: [ˈlʲʋʲiu̯sʲkɐ ˈɔbɫɐsʲtʲ]; Polish: Obwód lwowski), also referred to as Lvivshchyna (Ukrainian: Льві́вщина, Ukrainian: [ˈlʲʋʲiu̯ʃt͡ʃɪnɐ]), is an oblast in western Ukraine. The administrative center of the oblast is the city of Lviv. The current population is History Name The region is named after the city of Lviv which was founded by Daniel of Galicia, the King of Ruthenia, in the 13th century, where it became the capital of Galicia-Volhynia…