Tarnopol Voivodeship
The Tarnopol Voivodeship was in the years 1921-1939 an administrative unit of the Second Polish Republic, which was established on September 1, 1921 effective date of the division of the former Austrian part of Poland, Galicia, in the provinces of Lvov, Krakow, Stanislav and Tarnopol.
Geography
Confines
The province was in the southeastern part of Poland. In the west they bordered on the Lwów Voivodeship and Stanisławów, on the north by the province Wołyń, east to the Soviet Ukraine along the Dniester river, south to Romania along the Bug River.
Climate
The province was on the border of marine and continental climate, leading some weather anomalies resulted. For example, Tarnopol was one of the coldest cities in Poland and the area around Zaleszczyki one of the warmest of the state. Characteristic were also strong winds and depending on their direction of rapid temperature changes. The first frosts often occurred in September and the last in May.
Administrative subdivision
- Powiat Borszczow
- Powiat Brody
- Powiat Brzezany
- Powiat Buczacz
- Powiat Czortkow
- Powiat Husiatyn ( to 1925)
- Powiat Kamionka Strumiłowa
- Powiat Kopyczyńce (from 1925)
- Powiat Podhajce
- Powiat Przemyślany
- Powiat Radziechów
- Powiat Skalat
- Powiat Tarnopol
- Powiat Trembowla
- Powiat Zaleszczyki
- Powiat Zbaraż
- Powiat Zborów
- Powiat Zloczow
Demography
16,500 km ² lived in 1931 1,600,406 people - including 789 114 ( 49.3 %), Poland, 728 135 ( 45.5 %), Ukrainians, 78 932 ( 4.9%), Jews, 4,225 (0.3%) Other.
The area is now wholly Ukraine.
Major cities were:
- Tarnopol
- Brody
- Brzezany
- Buczacz
- Czortkow
- Zloczow
Economy
The province was heavily agricultural. In the cities there was an agricultural product processing industry ever. About the borders were known across the agricultural trade fairs in Tarnopol and Ułaszkowce. In mineral resources, there was phosphorite and lignite.