Lwów Voivodeship

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administrative division former administrative unit voivodeship

Lwów Voivodeship was an interwar administrative region of the Second Polish Republic centered on the city of Lwów (now Lviv, Ukraine), known for its diverse population and as a major cultural and political hub in eastern Poland before World War II.

Aliases (2)

Lwów Voivodeship (Second Polish Republic) ×1
Lwów region ×1

Statements (48)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	administrative division → former administrative unit → voivodeship →
administrativeCenter	Lwów →
borderedBy	Czechoslovakia → Kraków Voivodeship NERFINISHED → Lublin Voivodeship NERFINISHED → Romania → Stanisławów Voivodeship → Tarnopol Voivodeship NERFINISHED →
capital	Lviv → Lwów →
country	Second Polish Republic →
disestablishedAsResultOf	World War II →
dissolved	1939 →
endTime	1939 →
ethnicGroup	Armenians → Jews → Poles → Ukrainians →
followedBy	Drohobych Oblast → Lviv Oblast →
governmentType	civil administration →
historicalEvent	German invasion of Poland → Soviet invasion of Poland →
knownFor	cultural diversity → educational institutions in Lwów → multilingual population → political activity →
language	Polish → Ukrainian → Yiddish →
locatedInHistoricalRegion	Eastern Galicia →
locatedInPresentDay	Ukraine →
majorCity	Drohobycz → Jarosław → Lwów → Przemyśl → Rzeszów → Sambor →
partOf	Poland between the wars → Second Polish Republic →
regionType	eastern Poland →
religion	Greek Catholicism → Judaism → Roman Catholicism →
startTime	1921 →
timePeriod	interwar period →

Referenced by (3)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Polish deportees in the USSR →	locationOfOrigin
Home Army ("Lwów region") →	operatedIn
Lwów ("Lwów Voivodeship (Second Polish Republic)") →	wasCapitalOf