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Nowogródek Voivodeship (1919–1939)

Nowogródek Voivodeship
Województwo nowogródzkie
Voivodeship of Poland

1921–1939
 

Coat of arms of Nowogródek

Coat of arms

Location of Nowogródek
Lwów Voivodeship (red) on the map of Second Polish Republic
Capital Nowogródek
Government Voivodeship
Voivodes
 •  Jun-Oct 1921 Czesław Krupski
 •  1935-1939 Adam Korwin-Sokołowski
Historical era Interwar period
 •  Established 14 February 1921
 •  Invasion 17 September 1939
 •  Voting and annexation October–November 1939
Area
 •  1939 22,966 km2(8,867 sq mi)
Population
 •  1921 822,106 
 •  1931 1,057,000 
Political subdivisions 8 powiats and 8 cities
Today part of Belarus, Lithuania

Coat of arms of Nowogródek

Coat of arms

Nowogródek Voivodeship (Polish: Województwo nowogródzkie) was a unit of administrative division of the Second Polish Republic between 1919 and 1939, with the capital in Nowogródek (now Navahrudak, Belarus). Following German and Soviet Invasion of Poland of September 1939, Poland's borders were redrawn in accordance with the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact. The Nowogródek Voivodeship was incorporated into the Belarusian Soviet Socialist Republic in an atmosphere of terror, following staged elections. With the end of World War II, at the insistence of Joseph Stalin at the Tehran Conference of 1943, the area remained in Soviet hands, and the Polish population was soon forcibly resettled. Since 1991, most part of it belongs to the sovereign Republic of Belarus.


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