Lwów Voivodeship

Former voivodeship of Poland

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Lwów Voivodeship (Polish: Województwo lwowskie) was an administrative unit of interwar Poland (1918–1939). Because of the Nazi-Soviet invasion of Poland in accordance with the secret Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, it became occupied by both the Wehrmacht and the Red Army in September 1939. Following the conquest of Poland however, the Polish underground administration existed there until August 1944. Only around half of the Voivodeship was returned to Poland after the war ended. It was split diagonally just east of Przemyśl; with its eastern half, including Lwów itself, ceded to the Ukrainian SSR at the insistence of Joseph Stalin during the Tehran Conference confirmed (as not negotiable) at the Yalta Conference of 1945.[1][2]

Lwów Voivodeship
Województwo lwowskie
Voivodeship of Poland
1920–1939

Lwów Voivodeship (red) on the map of Second Polish Republic
CapitalLwów
Area 
• 1921
27,024 km2 (10,434 sq mi)
• 1939
28,402 km2 (10,966 sq mi)
Population 
• 1921
2.718.014
• 1931
3.126.300
Government
 • TypeVoivodeship
Voivodes 
• 1921–1924
Kazimierz Grabowski
• 1937–1939
Alfred Biłyk
Historical eraInterwar period
• Established
23 December 1920
September 1939
Political subdivisions27 powiats
Preceded by
Succeeded by
Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria
Ukraine SSR
General Government
Today part ofUkraine, Poland
  1. ^ Sylwester Fertacz (2005), "Krojenie mapy Polski: Bolesna granica" (Carving of Poland's map). Magazyn Społeczno-Kulturalny Śląsk. Retrieved from the Internet Archive on 5 June 2016.
  2. ^ Simon Berthon; Joanna Potts (2007). Warlords: An Extraordinary Re-Creation of World War II. Da Capo Press. p. 285. ISBN 978-0-306-81650-5.

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