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Lions,Ukraineis the regional center and the capital of Galicia and a major educational center. The city was founded by Danylo Romanovych – Prince in the thirteenth century. The name of the city derives from the name of the son of the Prince. At the beginning of the fourteenth century, the city became the center of Galicia-Volyn Principality. In 1939, under the agreement the German side and the Soviet Union, Lviv is a part of the Ukrainian SSR. The city has many different historical buildings as well as more than twenty parks, two Botanical gardens, and about sixteen monuments of nature. The historic city center is listed in the UNESCO list. Arheologicheskie excavations show that the first inhabitants in the territory of the city appear in the first even in the fifth century of our era. Later with the development of the city, the lions also claimed Russian Principality and Polish. Thus from the mid-fourteenth century until the mid-eighteenth century, the city was in the possession of the Commonwealth. During this period the city has built many temples, often the city was called the city of monks. Until the early 20th century Lviv was in the possession of Austria-Hungary. The city also has many universities, so the city is also the educational centre of the Lviv region.