Svirzh, Lviv Oblast

[3] It initially belonged to the Lwów Land in the Ruthenian Voivodeship of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and to the Świrski noble family and was referred to as an oppidum (market town).

[4] During the First Partition of Poland in 1772, the village became part of the new Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria of the Austrian Empire (from 1804).

In the 19th century, the village had many owners: Sierakowski, Straczewski, Pierzchała, Wiktor, Iliasiewicz, Czaykowski, Tustanowski and Krzeczunowicz.

In the early 20th century, the village of Irena (Wolański) Pinińska, whose second husband was Mr. Robert Lamezan de Salins, a general in the Austrian and Polish armies.

On 18 July 1944, in Operation Burza, a German fleet of vehicles was attacked by the Home Army and 40 people in the escort were killed.