Lwów Voivodeship
The Lviv Voivodeship (Polish: WojewĂłdztwo Lwowskie ) was in the years 1921 to 1939 a province of the Second Polish Republic. The office of the Administrator and the capital was Lemberg.
Statistical data
The province was in the south of Poland and covered an area of 27,024 km ². The population was 2.718 million in 1921, of which 56.6 % Poles, 7.4% Jews, and in 1931 3,127 million, of which 57.7 % Polish and 7.5 % Jewish. The rest of the population consisted mainly of Ukrainians.
Voivode of Lviv Voivodeship
- Kazimierz Grabowski
- Stanisław Zimny
- Paweł Garapich
- Piotr Dunin- Borkowski
- Wojciech Agenor Gołuchowski
- Bronisław Nakoniecznikow - Klukowski
- Józef Rożniecki
- Władysław Belina - Prażmowski
- Alfred Biłyk
Administrative subdivision
- Powiat Bóbrka
- Powiat Brzozów
- Powiat Cieszanów (up to 1922)
- Powiat Dobromil
- Powiat Drohobicz
- Powiat Gródek Jagielloński
- Powiat Jarosław
- Powiat Jaworów
- Powiat Kolbuszowa
- Powiat of Krosno
- Powiat Lisko ( Lesko 1931 )
- Powiat Lubaczów (since 1923)
- Powiat Lwów
- Powiat Lwów city
- Powiat Łańcut
- Powiat Mościska
- Powiat Nisko
- Powiat Przemysl
- Powiat Przeworsk
- Rawa Ruska powiat
- Powiat Rudki
- Powiat Rzeszów
- Powiat Sambor
- Sanok powiat
- Powiat Sokal
- Stary Sambor powiat (up to 1932)
- Powiat Strzyżów (up to 1932)
- Powiat Tarnobrzeg
- Powiat Turka (since 1931)
- Powiat Zolkiew
September 1939 and its aftermath
In September 1939, German and Soviet troops invaded Poland, the country and the Lviv province itself was divided between the two. The city of Lvov, was the Soviet Union passed by security guarantees for the Polish military and civilians who were not subsequently adhered to and including the eastern part of the province of the Ukrainian Soviet Republic incorporated. After 1945 the eastern part remained in the Soviet Union, the western section ( west of the river San ) works as part of the People's Republic of Poland. Today, the eastern part of the former province belongs to the Ukrainian Lviv Lviv Oblast.