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.


Statements (47)
Predicate Object
instanceOf administrative division of Poland
voivodeship
administrativeCenter Łuck
administrativeLevel first-level division of Poland
administrativeSubdivisionType powiats (counties)
borderedBy Lublin Voivodeship NERFINISHED
Lwów Voivodeship NERFINISHED
Polesie Voivodeship NERFINISHED
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 NERFINISHED
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

Referenced by (1)

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

Polish deportees in the USSR locationOfOrigin Volhynian Voivodeship

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