Brześć District
| Brześć District Okręg brzeski (Polish) | |||||||||||||
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| District of Civil Administration of the Eastern Lands and Provisional Administration of Front-line and Phase Territories | |||||||||||||
| 1919–1920 | |||||||||||||
Location within the Civil Administration of the Eastern Lands | |||||||||||||
| Capital | Brest-Litovsk | ||||||||||||
| Area | |||||||||||||
• 1919 | 57,758 km2 (22,300 sq mi) | ||||||||||||
| Population | |||||||||||||
• 1919 | 1 121 978 | ||||||||||||
| Government | |||||||||||||
| Chief of District | |||||||||||||
• 1919 | Maciej Jamont | ||||||||||||
• 1919–1920 | Władysław Jeśman | ||||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||||
• Formation of Brześć District | 7 June 1919 | ||||||||||||
• Incorporation into Provisional Administration of Front-line and Phase Territories | 9 September 1920 | ||||||||||||
• Incorporation into Second Polish Republic | 20 December 1920 | ||||||||||||
| Contained within | |||||||||||||
| • Civil administration | Civil Administration of the Eastern Lands (June 1919 – September 1920) Provisional Administration of Front-line and Phase Territories (September 1920 – December 1920) | ||||||||||||
| Political subdivisions | 6 counties (until August 1919) 7 counties (August – November 1919) 8 counties (since November 1919) | ||||||||||||
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Brześć District (Polish: Okręg brzeski) was a district of the Civil Administration of the Eastern Lands from June 1919 to September 1920, and Provisional Administration of Front-line and Phase Territories from September 1920 to December 1920, all of which were under the control of the Second Polish Republic. Its seat was located in Brest-Litovsk. In December 1919, it had an area of 57,758 km2 (22,300 sq mi), and was inhabited by 1,121,978 people.
It was established on 7 June 1919 with the formation of Civil Administration of the Eastern Lands, from the lands conquered from the Socialist Soviet Republic of Lithuania and Belorussia. On 17 January 1920, it was incorporated into Provisional Administration of Front-line and Phase Territories. On 20 December 1920, the civil administration was disestablished and the district was incorporated into Nowogródek and Polesian Districts.