Folded letter - Czernowitz / Lemberg (Ukraina; Austro-Hungary)
LOT #30885. Folded letter: from Czernowitz (today Ukraine, then Austro-Hungary) - 12.09.1854 to Lemberg(today Ukraine, then Austro-Hungary) arr. 14.09.1854
Sambor (Ukrainian Sambir Pol. Sambor) - a town of regional significance in the Lviv region of Ukraine, center Samborski area is not included in its composition.
The first recorded mention of the town refers to 1241. Today the city of Sambor is based on a new place afterward the plague in 1542. As a result, there was two of Sambor (the first of them in the future is called Stary Sambor - it is above the river Dniester).
In 1604, the castle governor Jerzy Mnishek lived Otrepyev Gregory, known as the False Dmitry I, pretending to be a son of Tsar Ivan IV the Terrible.
In 1855, construction began on the highway that connected Sambor and Drogobic. At the end of 1872 the city was connected with a railway line Borislav
Lviv (Ukrainian: Ëüâ³â L’viv, IPA: [lʲviu̯] ( listen); Polish: Lwów, IPA: [lvuf] ( listen); German: Lemberg, Russian: Ëüâîâ L'vov) is a city in western Ukraine, that was once a major population center of the Halych-Volyn Principality, the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland, the Habsburg Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, and later the capital of Lwów Voivodeship during Second Polish Republic.
Formerly capital of the historical region of Galicia, Lviv is now regarded as one of the main cultural centres of today's Ukraine. The historical heart of Lviv with its old buildings and cobblestone roads has survived Soviet and Nazi occupation during World War II largely unscathed.
