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Lviv, Ukraine

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The Resume

    (1240- )
    Also known as Lwow (Polish), L’vov (Russian) and Lemberg (German and Yiddish)
    Population: 756618 (2012)
    Founded by King Daniel of Galicia and named after his son Lev
    Part of the Kingdom of Poland (1349-1772), the Austrian Empire (1772-1918), the second Polish Republic (1918-1945), the Soviet Union (1946-1991) and independent Ukraine (1991- )

Why Lviv, Ukraine might be annoying:

    Its citizens are confusingly known as ‘Leopolitans.’
    It calls itself ‘The Little Paris of the Ukraine.’
    Its Jewish and Polish majorities were slaughtered or deported during World War Two.
    The River Poltva flows under the city and is part of its sewer system.
    Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, after whom ‘masochism’ is named, was born here.

Why Lviv, Ukraine might not be annoying:

    Invading Tatars forced its founder King Daniel to raze it.
    Cossack raiders were more merciful—they spared the city when a ransom was paid.
    The Poles Polonized it, the Austrians Germanized it and the Soviet Union Sovietized it.
    It was the first city in Europe to install streetlights.
    The vaccine against typhus was developed at Lwow University.
    It was the center of the Ukrainian independence movement in the 1980s.

Credit: Georgina


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Year In Review:

    In 2023, Out of 22 Votes: 22.73% Annoying
    In 2022, Out of 11 Votes: 0% Annoying
    In 2021, Out of 11 Votes: 45.45% Annoying
    In 2020, Out of 2 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2019, Out of 15 Votes: 46.67% Annoying
    In 2018, Out of 1 Votes: 100% Annoying
    In 2017, Out of 13 Votes: 46.15% Annoying
    In 2016, Out of 3 Votes: 33.33% Annoying
    In 2015, Out of 93 Votes: 50.54% Annoying
    In 2014, Out of 14 Votes: 57.14% Annoying
    In 2013, Out of 11 Votes: 54.55% Annoying
    In 2012, Out of 96 Votes: 36.46% Annoying