Polesie Voivodeship

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Polesie Voivodeship was an interwar administrative region of the Second Polish Republic, located in the eastern borderlands and known for its ethnically diverse population and extensive marshlands.

Aliases (1)

Statements (48)
Predicate Object
instanceOf former administrative division
voivodeship
administrativeCenter Brześć nad Bugiem
administrativeLevel first-level administrative division
borderedBy Białystok Voivodeship NERFINISHED
Lublin Voivodeship NERFINISHED
Nowogródek Voivodeship NERFINISHED
Soviet Union
Volhynian Voivodeship NERFINISHED
Wilno Voivodeship NERFINISHED
capital Brest
Brześć nad Bugiem
contains Polesie marshes
Pripet Marshes
country Second Polish Republic
dissolvedFollowing German invasion of Poland
Soviet invasion of Poland
endTime 1939
establishedBy government of the Second Polish Republic
ethnicComposition Belarusians
Jews
Poles
Russians
Ukrainians
governmentType voivodeship administration
historicalRegion Polesie
historicalStatus defunct voivodeship of Poland
knownFor ethnically diverse population
extensive marshlands
languageUsed Belarusian
Polish
Ukrainian
Yiddish
locatedIn Eastern Europe
eastern borderlands of the Second Polish Republic
namedAfter Polesie
partOf Second Polish Republic
precededBy Civil Administration of the Eastern Lands
religiousCommunities Eastern Orthodox Christians
Jews
Roman Catholics
startTime 1921
subdivisionOf Poland
timePeriod interwar period
todayPartlyIn Belarus
Poland
Russia
Ukraine

Referenced by (2)
Subject (surface form when different) Predicate
Polish deportees in the USSR
Polish deportees in the USSR ("Nowogródek Voivodeship")
locationOfOrigin

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