Wołyń Voivodeship - II RP

Wołyń Voivodeship or Volhynian Voivodeship (Polish: Województwo Wołyńskie, Latin: Palatinatus Volhynensis) was an administrative unit of interwar Poland (1918–1939) with an area of 35,754 km², 11 counties, and with Łuck as its capital. This area comprised a portion of the historical region of Volhynia. In 1945, on the insistence of the Soviet Union (following the Tehran Conference of 1943), Poland's borders were redrawn, with the Polish populatio... More

Wołyń Voivodeship or Volhynian Voivodeship (Polish: Województwo Wołyńskie, Latin: Palatinatus Volhynensis) was an administrative unit of interwar Poland (1918–1939) with an area of 35,754 km², 11 counties, and with Łuck as its capital. This area comprised a portion of the historical region of Volhynia. In 1945, on the insistence of the Soviet Union (following the Tehran Conference of 1943), Poland's borders were redrawn, with the Polish population being forcibly resettled, and the Voivodeship being incorporated by Stalin into the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. Since 1991 it has been divided between the Rivne and Volyn Oblasts of sovereign Ukraine. The Volhynian voivodeship was created in February 1921 as one of the main administrative divisions of the newly re-established Polish state, the so-called Second Polish Republic, in the aftermath of World War I and the Polish-Bolshevik War. With respect to the Orthodox Ukrainian population in eastern Poland, the Polish government...

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