Volhynian Voivodeship

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Volhynian Voivodeship was an interwar administrative region of the Second Polish Republic in eastern Poland, encompassing a historically multiethnic area that is now largely part of western Ukraine.

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Volhynian Voivodeship canonical 2
Волинь 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf administrative division of Poland
voivodeship
administrativeCenter Łuck
administrativeLevel first-level division of Poland
administrativeSubdivisionType powiats (counties)
borderedBy Lublin Voivodeship
Lwów Voivodeship
Polesie Voivodeship
Soviet Union
borderRegionOf Kresy
surface form: Poland–Soviet Union border
capital Lutsk
Łuck
country Second Polish Republic
demographicCharacteristic predominantly rural population
dissolutionCause Soviet occupation of Eastern Poland
surface form: Soviet and German occupation of Poland

invasion of Poland in 1939
endTime 1939
ethnicComposition Czechs
Germans
Jews
Poles
Ukrainians
governmentType civil administration of voivode
historicalEventContext Second Polish Republic eastern policy
Soviet occupation of Eastern Poland
surface form: Soviet–Polish borderlands
historicalPeriod interwar Poland
historicalSignificance example of interwar Polish eastern voivodeships
site of Polish–Ukrainian ethnic tensions
historicalStatus multiethnic borderland region
languageUsedInAdministration Polish
locatedInEasternPartOf Second Polish Republic
surface form: Poland (interwar)
locatedInHistoricalRegion Volhynia
locatedInPresentDay Ukraine
locatedInTime interwar period
nowMostlyIn Volyn Oblast
nowPartlyIn Rivne Oblast
Ternopil Oblast
partOf Second Polish Republic
polishName Województwo wołyńskie
predecessorEntity territories of former Russian Empire in Volhynia
religiousCommunities Greek Catholics
Jews
Eastern Orthodox Christianity
surface form: Orthodox Christians

Roman Catholicism
surface form: Roman Catholics
startTime 1921
successorTerritory Soviet Ukraine
surface form: Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic

modern Ukraine

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Polish deportees in the USSR locationOfOrigin Volhynian Voivodeship
Polesie Voivodeship borderedBy Volhynian Voivodeship
Єзуїтський колегіум у Луцьку region Volhynian Voivodeship
this entity surface form: Волинь