Lwów Voivodeship
| Lwów Voivodeship Województwo lwowskie | |||||||||||
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| Voivodeship of Poland | |||||||||||
| 1920–1939 | |||||||||||
Lwów Voivodeship (red) on the map of Second Polish Republic | |||||||||||
| Capital | Lwów | ||||||||||
| Area | |||||||||||
• 1921 | 27,024 km2 (10,434 sq mi) | ||||||||||
• 1939 | 28,402 km2 (10,966 sq mi) | ||||||||||
| Population | |||||||||||
• 1921 | 2.718.014 | ||||||||||
• 1931 | 3.126.300 | ||||||||||
| Government | |||||||||||
| • Type | Voivodeship | ||||||||||
| Voivodes | |||||||||||
• 1921–1924 | Kazimierz Grabowski | ||||||||||
• 1937–1939 | Alfred Biłyk | ||||||||||
| Historical era | Interwar period | ||||||||||
• Established | 23 December 1920 | ||||||||||
| September 1939 | |||||||||||
| Political subdivisions | 27 powiats | ||||||||||
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| Today part of | Ukraine, Poland | ||||||||||
Lwów Voivodeship (Polish: Województwo lwowskie) was an administrative unit of interwar Poland (1918–1939). Because of the Nazi invasion of Poland in accordance with the secret Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, it became occupied by both the Wehrmacht and the Red Army in September 1939. Following the conquest of Poland however, the Polish underground administration existed there until August 1944. Only around half of the Voivodeship was returned to Poland after the war ended. It was split diagonally just east of Przemyśl; with its eastern half, including Lwów itself, ceded to the Ukrainian SSR at the insistence of Joseph Stalin during the Tehran Conference confirmed (as not negotiable) at the Yalta Conference of 1945.