Battle of Lemberg (1918)
| Battle of Lemberg (Lviv, Lwów) | |||||||
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| Part of Polish–Ukrainian War | |||||||
Situation after Ukrainian siege was broken, March 1919 | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
| West Ukraine | Poland | ||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
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Dmytro Vitovsky Hnat Stefaniv | Czesław Mączyński | ||||||
The Battle of Lemberg (Lviv, Lwów) (in Polish historiography called obrona Lwowa, the Defense of Lwów) took place from November 1918 to May 1919 in the region of Galicia following the dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The battle, for control over the city of Lviv, was fought between forces of the local West Ukrainian People's Republic and urban Polish resistance, assisted later by the invading Polish military. The battle sparked the Polish-Ukrainian War, ultimately won by Poland as both nations fought the Ukrainian-Soviet War and Polish-Soviet Wars concurrently.