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'''Ivano-Frankivs'k''' ([[Ukrainian language|Ukrainian]]: '''Станиславів''' ''Stanyslaviv'' until [[1962]], [[Polish language|Polish]]: '''Iwano-Frankowsk''', formerly '''Stanisławów''', [[German language|German]]: '''Stanislau''' (before [[World War I]]]), [[Yiddish language|Yiddish]]: '''סטאַניסלעװ''' ''Stanislev'') is a city in [[Ukraine]], center of the [[Ivano-Frankivs'k region]] in the west of the country. Population 204,200 (2004).

The city was erected as a fortress to protect the [[Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth]] from [[Tatars|Tatar]] invasions and has also successfully withstood attacks by [[Ottoman Empire|Turkish]] and [[Imperial Russia|Russian]] forces. Extensively rebuilt during the [[Renaissance]], it was sometimes called ''Little [[Leopolis]]''. The city was also an important center of [[Armenian]] culture in Poland.