Wilno Voivodeship - II RP

The Wilno Voivodeship (Polish: województwo wileńskie, Lithuanian: Vilniaus vaivadija, Belarusian: Віленскае вайводзтва) was one of Voivodeships in the Second Polish Republic. It was created in 1926 and populated predominantly by Poles with notable minorities of Belarusians, Jews, and Lithuanians. Following German and Soviet Invasion of Poland, at the insistence of Joseph Stalin at the Tehran Conference of 1943, Poland's borders were redrawn, Poli... more

The Wilno Voivodeship (Polish: województwo wileńskie, Lithuanian: Vilniaus vaivadija, Belarusian: Віленскае вайводзтва) was one of Voivodeships in the Second Polish Republic. It was created in 1926 and populated predominantly by Poles with notable minorities of Belarusians, Jews, and Lithuanians. 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 Wilno Voivodeship was incorporated into the Lithuanian and Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republics. Since 1991, most of the former territory of the voivodeship has belonged to sovereign Lithuania. Wilno Voivodeship was created on 20 January 1926 from the territories of the Wilno Department (created in 1920) and the Republic of Central Lithuania (incorporated into Poland in 1922). From 6 April 1922 to 20 January 1926 it was known as the Wilno Land (ziemia wileńska). It was formed as the last of the Polish... less