Białystok Voivodeship (1919–1939)
| 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 | 1,643,844 | ||||||||||||
| Government | |||||||||||||
| • Type | Voivodeship | ||||||||||||
| Voivode | |||||||||||||
• 1919–1920 | Stefan Bądzyński | ||||||||||||
• 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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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. The voivodeship reached an area of 32,518 km2 and became the second largest voivodeship of the Second Polish Republic, after Polesie. 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.