Białystok Voivodeship (1919–39)

The Białystok Voivodeship was in the years 1919 to 1939 an administrative unit of the Second Polish Republic, the region comprised the south of Lithuania and East Prussia around the capital Białystok. During the Second World War, Poland was crushed and dissolved with him all the provinces. The region was occupied first by the Soviet Union in order to be finally in 1941 affiliated to East Prussia as the Bialystok district.

The western area of the former province now lies in Podlasie, the eastern half in Belarus.

Major cities were:

  • Białystok
  • Augustów
  • Grodno
  • Hajnówka
  • Łomża

See also: Province of Białystok

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  • Voivodeship of the Second Polish Republic
  • Białystok
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