Nowogródek Voivodeship - II RP

Nowogródek Voivodeship (Polish: Województwo nowogródzkie, Belarusian: Навагрудзкае вайводзтва) was a unit of administrative division of the Second Polish Republic between 1919 and 1939, with the capital in the town of Nowogródek (now Navahrudak, Belarus). Following German and Soviet Invasion of Poland, at the insistence of Joseph Stalin at the Tehran Conference of 1943, Poland's borders were redrawn, Polish population forcibly resettled and Nowog... more

Nowogródek Voivodeship (Polish: Województwo nowogródzkie, Belarusian: Навагрудзкае вайводзтва) was a unit of administrative division of the Second Polish Republic between 1919 and 1939, with the capital in the town of Nowogródek (now Navahrudak, Belarus). Following German and Soviet Invasion of Poland, at the insistence of Joseph Stalin at the Tehran Conference of 1943, Poland's borders were redrawn, Polish population forcibly resettled and Nowogródek Voivodeship was incorporated into the Belarusian Soviet Socialist Republic. Since 1991, most part of it belongs to the sovereign Republic of Belarus. In the years 1919–1939 it consisted of 8 powiats (districts), 8 towns and only 89 villages. Two censuses were conducted in Poland during this period: the Polish census of 1921 and the Polish census of 1931. In 1921 the voivodeship was inhabited by 800,761 people, and the population density was only 35.3 persons per sq. km. Its 1931 population was 1,057,200. 82% were engaged in agricultural... less