Wołyń Voivodeship (1921–1939)
former voivodeship of Poland
Wołyń Voivodeship (Polish: Województwo wołyńskie, Ukrainian: Волинське воєводство, romanized: volinske voyevodstvo) or Wołyń Province was an administrative region of interwar Poland (1918–1939) with an area of 35,754 km2, 22 cities, and provincial capital in Łuck.
The province was divided into 11 counties (powiaty). The area comprised part of the historical region of Volhynia.
At the end of World War II, at the insistence of Joseph Stalin and the Soviet Union during the 1943 Tehran Conference, Poland's borders were redrawn by the Allies. The province's Polish population was forcibly resettled westward; and the province's territory was incorporated into the Soviet Union's Ukrainian SSR.
Since 1991 it has been divided between sovereign Ukraine's Rivne and Volyn Oblasts.
History
After a century of foreign rule, the Second Polish Republic was reborn in the aftermath of World War I. The borders of the republic were ratified by the Treaty of Versailles signed on 28 June 1919. They were a result of several cross-national conflicts including Polish–Ukrainian War (November 1918 – July 1919) and the Greater Poland Uprising (December 1918 – February 1919).
The borders of the republic were extended to the East as the result of the Polish–Soviet War (May – October 1920), resulting from Semyon Budyonny's August 1920 military foray into former Russian Poland as far as Warsaw. The Soviets withdrew in panic during the 1920 major Polish counter-offensive. The newly re-established sovereign Poland created Wołyń Voivodeship as one of the 16 main administrative divisions of the country.
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