Białystok Voivodeship (1945–75)
| Białystok Voivodeship Województwo białostockie |
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| Voivodeship of Poland | |||||
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Białystok 53°08′N 23°09′E / 53.133°N 23.150°ECoordinates: 53°08′N 23°09′E / 53.133°N 23.150°E |
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| • | Established | 1945 | |||
| • | Disestablished | 1975 | |||
| Political subdivisions | 24 counties (powiaty) | ||||
See also: Białystok Voivodeship (1919–39) and Białystok Voivodeship (1975–1998)
Białystok Voivodeship (Polish: Województwo białostockie) was a unit of administrative division and local government in Poland from 1945 to 1975, when its purview was separated into eastern Suwałki Voivodeship, Łomża Voivodeship and Białystok Voivodeship (1975-1998). Its capital city was Białystok. The establishment of Podlaskie Voivodeship in 1999 was essentially a reunion of the areas of Białystok Voivodeship (1945-1975).
Area administrative region of 1950, amounted to 23 201 square kilometers, was later reduced to 23 153 square kilometers. The population was in 1946, approximately 941 000, in 1970 approximately 1 176 000 inhabitants.
In early 1944, when the Red Army crossed the Polish frontier before the war, the Bialystok Voivodeship was divided administratively by the German occupied areas incorporated into the Third Reich (Bezirk Bialystok) and the occupied territories of the USSR (Reich Commissariat East).
Over the next months, the front was moving into the pre-war Polish territory. However, according to the findings of the Tehran Conference of 1943 it was known that the pre-war Polish eastern territories will be incorporated into the Soviet Union and eastern territories of Germany will be incorporated into Polish (more precisely define these territorial changes occurred during the Yalta Conference and the Potsdam Conference ). For this reason, the Polish territories occupied by the Red Army in early 1944 did not create the Polish administration. Only after crossing the line in July 1944 the Bug, which is the future eastern border of Polish, Polish authorities have been established in the form of the Polish Committee of National Liberation (PCNL) .
A month after the start of its operations PCNL issued Decree of the Polish Committee of National Liberation of August 21, 1944 on the Procedure for the appointment of general administration authorities and second instance, which came into force on 22 August 1944. In this decree (Article 11) abolished the administrative structure introduced by Germany and restored the Bialystok Voivodeship administrative divisions during the Second Polish Republic. At the time, ran on the front line of the Vistula and Narew, and the formal authority PKWN had was only part of the pre-war Bialystok Voivodeship.
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