Białystok Voivodeship (1919–1939)
Białystok Voivodeship (Polish: Województwo białostockie) was an administrative unit of interwar Poland (1918–1939). The province's capital and its biggest city was Białystok with a population of over 91,000 people. Following the Nazi German and the Soviet invasion of Poland, the Voivodeship was occupied by both invading armies and divided according to Nazi-Soviet boundary treaty.
| Białystok Voivodeship Województwo białostockie | |||||||||||||
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| Voivodeship of Poland | |||||||||||||
| 1919–1939 | |||||||||||||
Location of the Białystok Voivodeship (red) within the Second Polish Republic, 1938. | |||||||||||||
| Capital | Białystok | ||||||||||||
| Area | |||||||||||||
• 1921 | 32,450 km2 (12,530 sq mi) | ||||||||||||
• 1939 | 26,036 km2 (10,053 sq mi) | ||||||||||||
| Population | |||||||||||||
• 1921 | 1,305,284 | ||||||||||||
• 1931 | 1,263,300 | ||||||||||||
| Government | |||||||||||||
| • Type | Voivodeship | ||||||||||||
| Voivode | |||||||||||||
• 1919–1920 | Stefan Badzynski | ||||||||||||
• 1937–1939 | Henryk Ostaszewski | ||||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||||
• Established | 14 August 1919 | ||||||||||||
• Annexed | September 1939 | ||||||||||||
| Political subdivisions | 13 counties (powiaty) (1919–38) 10 counties (1938–1939) | ||||||||||||
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