Lwów Voivodeship

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Lwów Voivodeship was an interwar administrative region of the Second Polish Republic centered on the city of Lwów (now Lviv, Ukraine), known for its diverse population and as a major cultural and political hub in eastern Poland before World War II.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf administrative division
former administrative unit
voivodeship
administrativeCenter Lwów
borderedBy Czechoslovakia
Kraków Voivodeship
Lublin Voivodeship
Romania
Stanisławów Voivodeship
Tarnopol Voivodeship
capital Lviv
linked to: Lwów

Lwów
country Second Polish Republic
disestablishedAsResultOf World War II
dissolved 1939
endTime 1939
ethnicGroup Armenians
Jews
Poles
Ukrainians
followedBy Drohobych Oblast
Lviv Oblast
linked to: Lviv region
governmentType civil administration
historicalEvent German invasion of Poland
linked to: Invasion of Poland

Soviet invasion of Poland
knownFor cultural diversity
educational institutions in Lwów
multilingual population
political activity
language Polish
Ukrainian
Yiddish
locatedInHistoricalRegion Eastern Galicia
locatedInPresentDay Ukraine
majorCity Drohobycz
linked to: Drohobych

Jarosław
Lwów
Przemyśl
Rzeszów
Sambor
partOf Poland between the wars
Second Polish Republic
regionType eastern Poland
religion Greek Catholicism
Judaism
Roman Catholicism
startTime 1921
timePeriod interwar period

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Lwów wasCapitalOf Lwów Voivodeship (Second Polish Republic)
linked to: Lwów Voivodeship
Home Army operatedIn Lwów region
subject linked to: Home Army (Armia Krajowa)
linked to: Lwów Voivodeship
Volhynian Voivodeship borderedBy Lwów Voivodeship
Brzeżany historicalVoivodeship Lwów Voivodeship
Jan Kazimierz University locatedIn Lwów Voivodeship
Stanisławów Voivodeship borderedBy Lwów Voivodeship