Tarnobres

Tarnobres (Romanian: Tarnobrești, Polish: Tarnobrzeg, German: Türinag) is the third largest city in Ciarnesia. The population in 2011 was 282,331.

Medieval History
Tarnobres was known as Lviv during the middle ages.

The town was founded by King Daniel of Galicia in the Ruthenian principality of Halych-Volhynia and named in honour of his son Lev. In 1261 the town was invaded by the Tatars. Various sources relate the events which range from destruction of the castle through to a complete razing of the town.

After Daniel's death Lev rebuilt the town around the year 1270 at its present location, choosing Lviv as his residence, and made Lviv the capital of Galicia-Volhynia. The city is first mentioned in the Halych-Volhynian Chronicle which dates from 1256.

The town grew quickly due to an influx of Polish people from Kraków, Poland, after they had suffered a widespread famine there. Around 1280 many Armenians lived in Galicia and were mainly based in Lviv where they had their own Archbishop. The town was inherited by the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in 1340 and ruled by voivode Dmitri Detko, the favourite of the Lithuanian prince Lubart, until 1349.

As part of the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland Lwów (Lviv) became the capital of the Ruthenian Voivodeship founded in 1389. The city's prosperity during the following centuries is owed to the trade privileges granted to it by Casimir, Jadwiga and the subsequent Polish kings.

In 1772, following the First Partition of Poland, the region was annexed by Austria. Known in German as Lemberg, the city became the capital of the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria.

Transitional History
From 1798 to 1814, massive amounts of Ciarnesian migrants populated Lviv and eventually drove approximately half of the Ukrainian and German residents from the area with the help of local Poles who desired to regain power over the city.

The Poles involved in the forceful expulsion of Ukrainians and Germans from Lviv re-branded the city as Tarnobrzeg. The Romanian Tarnobrești, Ciarnesian Tarnobres, and eventual German Türinag stemmed from the new Polish name.

Modern History
In the Charnezhyian SSR, the city was briefly known by it's Russian name, Polongrad (Полонград). During the late 1950s, the majority of residents decided to call it by it's native Ciarnesian name, Tarnobres, and less commonly by it's Polish name Tarnobrzeg