Wilno Voivodeship

E58420

Wilno Voivodeship was an interwar administrative region of the Second Polish Republic centered on the city of Wilno (now Vilnius), encompassing parts of present-day Lithuania and Belarus.

Jump to: Surface forms Statements Referenced by

Observed surface forms (2)


Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf administrative division
voivodeship
abolishedBy Soviet government
surface form: Soviet authorities
administrativeCenter Wilno
borderedBy Białystok Voivodeship NERFINISHED
Latvia
Nowogródek Voivodeship NERFINISHED
Polesie Voivodeship NERFINISHED
Lithuania
surface form: Republic of Lithuania
capital Vilnius
Wilno
continent Europe
country Second Polish Republic
dissolvedAsResultOf Soviet occupation of Eastern Poland
surface form: Soviet invasion of Poland
endTime 1939
ethnicComposition Belarusians
Jews
Lithuanians
Poles
governmentType civil administration
hasHistoricalStatus defunct administrative division
hasMajorCity Lida
Mołodeczno
Oszmiana
Wilno
Święciany
historicalCountry Poland
historicalRegion Eastern Borderlands
Vilnius Region
languageOfToponym Polish
locatedInPresentDay Belarus
Lithuania
locatedInTime interwar period
modernCapitalCityName Vilnius
namedAfter Wilno
officialLanguage Polish
partOf Kresy
surface form: Polish eastern borderlands

Second Polish Republic
predecessor Republic of Central Lithuania
regionType historical region
religiousComposition Eastern Orthodoxy
Judaism
Roman Catholicism
startTime 1926
successor Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic
surface form: Byelorussian SSR

Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic
surface form: Lithuanian SSR
timePeriod 20th century

Referenced by (4)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Wilno capitalOf Wilno Voivodeship
Vilna Governorate followedBy Wilno Voivodeship
this entity surface form: Wilno Voivodeship (Second Polish Republic)
this entity surface form: Wilno Voivodeship (interwar Poland)