Tarnopol Voivodeship - II RP

Tarnopol Voivodeship (Polish: Województwo tarnopolskie; Ukrainian: Тернопільське воєводство) was an administrative region of interwar Poland (1918–1939) with an area of 16,500 km², 17 counties, and capital in Tarnopol. At the end of World War II, at the insistence of Joseph Stalin during Tehran Conference of 1943, Poland's borders were redrawn, Polish population forcibly resettled and Tarnopol Voivodeship was incorporated into the Ukrainian Sovie... more

Tarnopol Voivodeship (Polish: Województwo tarnopolskie; Ukrainian: Тернопільське воєводство) was an administrative region of interwar Poland (1918–1939) with an area of 16,500 km², 17 counties, and capital in Tarnopol. At the end of World War II, at the insistence of Joseph Stalin during Tehran Conference of 1943, Poland's borders were redrawn, Polish population forcibly resettled and Tarnopol Voivodeship was incorporated into the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. Since 1991, most part of it belongs to Ternopil Oblast in sovereign Ukraine. On September 17, 1939, following German aggression on Poland (see also: Polish September Campaign) and in accordance with the secret protocol of Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, Soviet forces, allied with Nazi Germany, invaded eastern Poland. As bulk of the Polish Army was concentrated in the west, fighting Germans, the Soviets met with little resistance and their troops quickly moved westwards. Tarnopol was occupied as early as September 18, without any... less