Lwów
Britishnoun
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Concerns had risen in Poland after a photo was published of a stamp in the old book from a library in Lviv, a city that is now part of Ukraine but was the Polish city of Lwow until WWII.
From Seattle Times
Zagajewski was born in June 1945 in Lwow, now Lviv in Ukraine.
From Seattle Times
Roosevelt "half-heartedly" asked Stalin if the city of Lwow might stay a part of Poland, but did not push the idea, and it was quickly dropped.
From BBC
Our heads were full of news from strange places in middle Europe or the Pacific — Lwow, Saipan, St. Lo.
From Washington Post
My father was part of the Lwów School of Mathematics.
From Literature
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