Wołyń Voivodeship (1921–39)

Wołyń Voivodeship Województwo wołyńskie
Voivodeship of Poland
← 1921–1939 →
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Wołyń Voivodeship (red) on the map of Second Polish Republic
Capital		Łuck
Government		Voivodeship
Voivodes
•	Mar-Jul 1921	Stanisław Jan Krzakowski
•	1938-1939	Aleksander Hauke-Nowak
Historical era		Interwar period
•	Established	19 February 1921
•	Soviet invasion	17 September 1939
Area
•	1921	30,274 km2(11,689 sq mi)
•	1939	35,754 km2(13,805 sq mi)
Population
•	1921	1,437,907
	Density	47.5 /km2  (123 /sq mi)
•	1931	2,085,600
Political subdivisions		11 powiats
Today part of		Ukraine

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Wołyń Voivodeship or Volhynian Voivodeship (Polish: Województwo Wołyńskie, Latin: Palatinatus Volhynensis) was an administrative region of interwar Poland (1918–1939) with an area of 35,754 km², 22 cities, and provincial capital in Łuck. The voivodeship was divided into 11 districts (powiaty). The area comprised part of the historical region of Volhynia. At the end of World War II, at the insistence of Joseph Stalin and the Soviet Union during the Tehran Conference of 1943, Poland's borders were redrawn by the Allies. The Polish population was forcibly resettled westward; and the Voivodeship territory was incorporated into the Ukrainian SSR of the Soviet Union. Since 1991 it has been divided between the Rivne and Volyn Oblasts of sovereign Ukraine.

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