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Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 4, Issue 87, 24 September 1915, Page 3 (Supplement)

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Lemberg, the capital of Galicta, i which was retaken by the Germans and j Austrians, is the fourth city in Austria in size, ranking after Vienna, Prague, j and Trieste. j * * * j It is situated in a narrow ba&in among the hills about fifty miles irom 1 the Russian frontier, 370 miles north- j east of Vienna, and just under 300 from Budapest. I * * * j Rounded in 1259, Letnberg was an important Polish city from 1340. It' fell to Austria at the first partition of Poland. * * * At one time the city was fortified, but over a century ago the fortifications were converted into pleasure grounds. | * * I From a railway standpoint, Lemfeng' is a centre of considerable importance, i Lines from Vienna, Budapest, Stanis- j lan, Czernovitz, and also from Ron- J mania meet just outside the city, while a main west and east line connects! Lembcrg with Cracow and Brzemyal, this line continuing acuoss the AustroRussian frontier. * * * Lemberg has a population of about j 200,000, 80 per cent, of which *re! Poles, many of whom are Jews. The i population is mainly of the commercial and middle class. * * * From a religious standpoint Lemberg is particularly interesting, being the seat of a Roman Catholic, an Armenian, and a Greek Catholic Archbishop. * * * In the seventeenth century and earlier it was called "the town of tho monks," and to-day has nearly thirty ; churches and several monasteries. * * * The Gothic Roman Catholic Cathedral and the Armenian Cathedral date from the fourteenth century. j * * * j The University, founded in 1754 and j reorganised in 1817. has more than 'JOO j students. I * * ♦ j Its library contains 86.000 voTnmts and 470 MSS. Here is also the library oi the National Institute, which contains 81,000 volumes and 3,000 MSS., chiefly of Polish literature, and large collections of coins, paintings, etc.