Białystok Voivodeship ( Polish. Wojewodztwo białostockie , Belorussian. Białystock Vayavodztva ) is an administrative-territorial unit of the Second Polish Republic , created on August 14, 1921 from the counties of the former Grodno , Lomza and Suwalk provinces of the Russian Empire . It was disbanded in 1939 on the basis of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact , according to which these lands became part of the BSSR (with the exception of the Suwalk district).
| Bialystok Voivodeship | |||
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| polish Województwo białostockie | |||
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| A country | The Republic of Poland | ||
| Adm. Centre | Bialystok | ||
| History and Geography | |||
| Date of formation | 1919 | ||
| Date of Abolition | 1939 | ||
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| Official language | Polish | ||
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The territory of the Voivodeship ( 1921 ) - 32,450 km2, ( 1939 ) - 26,036 km2
Map of Voivodeship, 1937
The voivodship consisted of 13 counties:
- August County
- Bialystok
- Bialystok County
- Belsky County
- Grodno County
- Lomzhinsky County
- Ostrolenka County
- Ostrovsky County
- Sokulsky district
- Suwalk County
- Schuchinsky County
- Volkovysk County
- Vysokomazovetsky County
- Bialowieza County (from February 4, 1921 to July 31, 1922 )
Literature
- (Polish) D. Boćkowski. "Na zawsze razem. Białostocczyzna i Łomżyńskie w polityce radzieckiej w czasie II wojny światowej (IX 1939 - VIII 1944). ”Neriton, Instytut History of PAN . 2005 116-117.
- (Polish) Jak to z władzami bywało ... unopened .
- (Polish) Chojnowski, Andrzej. Marian Zyndram-Kościałkowski, premier Rzeczypospolitej 13 X 1935 - 15 V 1936 // Prezydenci i premierzy Drugiej Rzeczypospolitej / Andrzej Chojnowski, Piotr Wróbel, Andrzej Chojnowski. - Wrocław - Warszawa - Kraków: Zakład Narodowy imienia Ossolińskich, 1992 .-- P. 349. - ISBN 978-83-04-03854-7 .