Gazeta Lwowska is a Polish language

Polish language

Polish is a language of the Lechitic subgroup of West Slavic languages, used throughout Poland and by Polish minorities in other countries...

 biweekly magazine, published since December 24, 1990 in Lviv

Lviv

Lviv is a city in western Ukraine. The city is regarded as one of the main cultural centres of today's Ukraine and historically has also been a major Polish and Jewish cultural center, as Poles and Jews were the two main ethnicities of the city until the outbreak of World War II and the following...

 (also known as Lwów, Lvov, etc.), Ukraine

Ukraine

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. The publication refers to the traditions of a Polish language paper Gazeta Lwowska, which was published between 1811 and 1944 and as such was one of the oldest Polish newspapers.

Originally, Gazeta Lwowska was a press organ of the Austrian

Austria-Hungary

Austria-Hungary , more formally known as the Kingdoms and Lands Represented in the Imperial Council and the Lands of the Holy Hungarian Crown of Saint Stephen, was a constitutional monarchic union between the crowns of the Austrian Empire and the Kingdom of Hungary in...

 authorities of Galicia

Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria

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 and it limited itself to publishing legal announcements. In 1873, when Władysław Łoziński became editor-in-chief, it began inserting local and world news, and since 1874, it published a monthly addition Przewodnik Naukowy i Literacki (Scientific and Literary Guide), dedicated to history, literature, geography, economics and ethnography. Among writers who cooperated with Gazeta Lwowska, there were Adam Krechowiecki, Ludwik Kubala

Ludwik Kubala

Ludwik Kubala was a Polish historian. Lived in Kraków and Lwów, fought in the January Uprising. In 1880-1881 he published a historical treaty that is said to have inspired Henryk Sienkiewicz to create The Trilogy. In addition to historical works, he wrote poems, plays and edited newspapers...

, Karol Szajnocha

Karol Szajnocha

Karol Szajnocha was a Polish writer, historian, and independence activist. Self-taught, he would nonetheless become a notable Polish historian of the partitions period.-Biography:...

, Józef Szujski

Józef Szujski

Józef Szujski was a Polish politician, historian, poet and professor of the Jagiellonian University....

, Alfred Wysocki.

After 1918, when Lemberg was incorporated into the Second Polish Republic

Second Polish Republic

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, Gazeta Lwowska was a local daily, popular in the Lwów Voivodeship

Lwów Voivodeship

Lwów Voivodeship was an administrative unit of interwar Poland . According to Nazis and Soviets it ceased to exist in September 1939, following German and Soviet aggression on Poland . The Polish underground administration existed till August 1944.-Population:Its capital, biggest and most...

. Following the joint Nazi and Soviet annexation of Poland, the newspaper stopped publication. It re-established publication briefly from July 1941 to July 1944 during the period of German occupation as vehicle for Nazi propaganda

Propaganda

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.

During German occupation, Gazeta Lwowska was very popular among readers, with the circulation reaching 90,000 in August 1943. Known as Lembergierka, the Gazeta was liked by Polish

Poles

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 readers, as it was not as rabidly anti-Polish like the previous, defunct, Soviet-sponsored Czerwony Sztandar

Czerwony Sztandar (Lwów newspaper)

Czerwony Sztandar was a Polish language daily, published by the Soviet occupation authorities in the city of Lwów , between 5 October 1939 and June 1941, and then again between 1944 and 1950...

 (1939-1941). Its editors-in-chief were only Germans, such as Felix Rufenach and A.G. Lehmann. Among Polish employees, a significant number was informally connected with the resistance movement

Polish resistance movement in World War II

The Polish resistance movement in World War II, with the Home Army at its forefront, was the largest underground resistance in all of Nazi-occupied Europe, covering both German and Soviet zones of occupation. The Polish defence against the Nazi occupation was an important part of the European...

. Gazeta's street vendors organized a patriotic demonstration in Lwów, on November 11, 1943 (Polish independence day). On that day, several copies of the newspaper were stamped with a Polish Eagle, and with an inscription "Poland will triumph".

Gazeta Lwowska returned on December 24, 1990 as a biweekly, published by the Association of Polish Culture of the Lviv Land

Association of Polish Culture of the Lviv Land

Association of the Polish Culture of the Lviv Land is a Polish minority association, active in Lviv Oblast of western Ukraine. It was founded on December 3, 1989 in Lviv and its first director was Professor Leszek Mazepa...

(Towarzystwo Kultury Polskiej Ziemi Lwowskiej - TKPZL).