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{{Short description|1918 battle between during the Polish-Ukrainian war}}
{{For|other battles fought for the city of Lemberg|Battle of Lwów (disambiguation)}}
{{Infobox military conflict
|conflict=Battle of Lemberg (Lviv, Lwów)
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|date=November 1, 1918 - May 22, 1919
|place=[[Lemberg]] (Lviv, Lwów)
|result= Polish victory<ref>{{cite web |last1=Naleźniak |first1=Paweł |title=Obrona Lwowa w 1918 roku |url=https://przystanekhistoria.pl/pa2/tematy/kresy/53734,Obrona-Lwowa-w-1918-roku.html |website=Przystanek Historia |language=pl |date=2019}}</ref>
|combatant1={{flagicon|West Ukrainian People's Republic}} [[West Ukrainian People's Republic|West Ukraine]]
|combatant2={{flagicon|Second Polish Republic|1919}} [[Second Polish Republic|Poland]]
|commander1=[[Dmytro Vitovsky]]<br>[[Hnat Stefaniv]]
|commander2=[[Czesław Mączyński]]
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==Background==
The modern city of [[Lviv]] was called ''Lviv'' by the Ukrainians, ''Lwów'' by the Poles, and ''Lemberg'' by the Austrians and is the largest city in the historical region of [[Galicia (Eastern Europe)|eastern Galicia]]. According to the Austrian census of 1910, which listed religion and language,
As a part of the Austrian partition of Poland,<ref>[http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/466910/Partitions-of-Poland Encyclopædia Britannica, Partitions of Poland]</ref> Lemberg became center of Polish culture and scholarship,<ref>Paul R. Magocsi, ''Encyclopedia of Canada's peoples'', University of Toronto Press, 1999 [https://books.google.com/books?id=dbUuX0mnvQMC&dq=Lviv+center+of+Polish+culture+scholarship&pg=PA1057 p. 1057],</ref> as well as Polish and Ukrainian political activity.
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==Ukrainian takeover==
{{main|November Uprising (Lemberg, 1918)}}
[[File:Boberski Witowski Cehelski 1918.jpg|thumb|left|200px|[[Dmytro Vitovsky]] (in the middle) accompanied by two officers, 1918]]
Between 3:30 and 4:00 A.M. on November 1, 1918 Ukrainian soldiers occupied Lviv's public utilities and military objectives, raised [[Ukrainian flag]]s throughout the city and proclaimed the birth of the new Ukrainian state. The Austrian governor was interned and handed over power to the vice-director of the governorship, Volodymyr Detsykevych, who in turn recognized the supreme authority of the Ukrainian National Rada. The Austrian military commander called on his subordinates to recognize the Rada as well. Colonel [[Dmytro Vitovsky]] became commander-in-chief of the Ukrainian forces in Lviv, which numbered 60 officers and 1,200 soldiers.<ref name="Chojnowski"/> Lviv was proclaimed the capital of the West Ukrainian People's Republic, which claimed sovereignty over Eastern Galicia, the [[Carpathian Mountains|Carpathians]] up to the village of [[Komańcza]] in the west ([[Komancza Republic]]), [[Carpathian Ruthenia]] and northern Bukovina. However, a large part of the claimed territory, including the city of Lviv, was also considered Polish by many of the local residents. While the Ukrainian residents enthusiastically supported the proclamation and the city's significant Jewish minority remained mostly neutral towards the Ukrainian proclamation, the Polish residents, constituting the majority of Lviv's inhabitants, were shocked to find themselves in a proclaimed Ukrainian state.<ref name=Subtelny367>[[Orest Subtelny]], ''[https://archive.org/details/ukrainehistory00subt_0 <!-- quote=0802083900. --> Ukraine: a history]'', pp. 367-368, University of Toronto Press, 2000, {{ISBN|0-8020-8390-0}}</ref>
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Battle of Lwow 1918}}
[[Category:Battles
[[Category:Polish–Ukrainian War|Lwow 1918]]▼
[[Category:Battles involving Ukraine|Lwow 1918]]▼
[[Category:West Ukrainian People's Republic]]
[[Category:Conflicts in 1919|Lemberg]]
[[Category:1918 in Poland]]
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[[Category:1918 in Ukraine]]
[[Category:1919 in Ukraine]]
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