The United States “temporarily relocated” its diplomatic personnel in Ukraine to Lviv in Feb. 2022. Which empire ruled Lviv until WWI?

The United States “temporarily relocated” its diplomatic personnel in Ukraine to Lviv in Feb. 2022. Which empire ruled Lviv until WWI?

The city of Lviv was part of Galicia, the largest, most populous, and northernmost province of the Austro-Hungarian Empire until the dissolution of the monarchy at the end of World War I in 1918. On the other hand, Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv, was part of the Russian empire, changed hands sixteen times from 1918 to August 1920, and became part of the Soviet Union in 1922.