Editing Lviv (section)

===Ethnic Polish population===
{|class="wikitable floatright"
|+ Historical Polish population
|-
! Year
! Poles
! %
|-
|1921<ref name="brockhaus" />
|112,000
|51
|-
|1989
|9,500<ref>1.2% of 790,908</ref>
|1.2<ref name="2001census" />
|-
|2001<ref name="2001census" />
|6,400
|0.9
|}

Ethnic Poles and the [[Polish Jews]] began to settle in Lwów in considerable numbers already in 1349 after the city was conquered by [[Casimir III the Great|King Casimir]] of the [[Piast dynasty]]. Lwów served as Poland's major cultural and economic centre for several centuries, during the [[Polish Golden Age]], and until the [[partitions of Poland]] perpetrated by Russia, Prussia, and Austria.<ref>{{cite news |title=In Poland, a Jewish Revival Thrives |quote=Probably about 70 percent of the world's European Jews, or [[Ashkenazi]], can trace their ancestry to Poland – thanks to a 14th-century king, Casimir III the Great, who drew Jewish settlers from across Europe with his vow to protect them as "people of the king". |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |date=12 July 2007}}</ref> In the [[Second Polish Republic]], the [[Lwów Voivodeship]] (inhabited by 2,789,000 people in 1921) grew to 3,126,300 inhabitants in ten years.<ref name="grodek">{{cite web |url=http://www.grodekjagiellonski.republika.pl/wojewodztwo.html |title=Województwo lwowskie. 1920–1939 |publisher=Grodek Jagiellonski |work=KALENDARIUM |date=2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120308215808/http://www.grodekjagiellonski.republika.pl/wojewodztwo.html |archive-date=8 March 2012}}</ref>

As a result of World War II, Lviv was de-Polonised, mainly through [[Polish population transfers (1944–1946)|Soviet-arranged population exchange in 1944–1946]] but also by early deportations to Siberia.<ref name="loz">{{cite web |url=http://postup.brama.com/010928/148_8_1.html |author=R. Lozinsky |title=poles in Lviv |access-date=11 February 2016 |archive-date=3 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303175015/http://postup.brama.com/010928/148_8_1.html |url-status=live }}</ref> Those who remained on their own volition after [[Territories of Poland annexed by the Soviet Union|the border shift]] became a small ethnic minority in Lviv. By 1959 Poles made up only 4% of the local population. Many families were mixed.<ref name=loz /> During the Soviet decades only two Polish schools continued to function: [[St. Mary Magdalene High School No. 10 in Lviv|No. 10]] (with 8 grades) and No. 24 (with 10 grades).<ref name=loz />

In the 1980s the process of uniting groups into ethnic associations was allowed. In 1988 a Polish-language newspaper was permitted (''[[Gazeta Lwowska]]'').<ref name="ir">[https://archive.today/20060118000349/http://www.polska.com.ua/ua/ambasada/news/3526/ Polish Embassy ''The Poles in Lviv continue to be proud of their identity''], accessed 21:05, 29 October 2009</ref> The Polish population of the city continues to use the dialect of the Polish language known as ''[[Lwów dialect]]'' ({{langx|pl|gwara lwowska}}).<ref name=ir />

An association of Poles named [[Association of Poles "White Eagle"|White Eagle]] was founded in Lviv in 2011.<ref>{{cite web |title=Orzeł Biały Lwów |url=http://orzelbialy.org.ua/ |website=orzelbialy.org.ua |language=uk-UA}}</ref>