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	Wilno Voivodship Information
		The Wilno Voivodship (Polish: województwo wileńskie, Lithuanian: Vilniaus vaivadija) (or Vilnius Voivodship) was the capital Voivodship of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and later the capital Voidvodship of Lithuania’s part in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.
		Geographically the area was centered around the city of Vilna (Wilno, modern Vilnius), which has always been the capital of the entity and the seat of a voivode.
		The Wilno Voivodship that was formed as the last of the Polish voivodships in the interbellum, was created in 1923 as a combination of the lands of the former Central Lithuania and the Department of Wilno created in 1920.
	www.bookrags.com /Wilno_Voivodship (301 words)

	PolishRoots - Geography & Maps
		It is a known historical fact that Wilno was the capital of the great Duchy of Lithuania from 1323 to 1569; from the Lublin Union to 1794, the main town in the Duchy; on 12 December 1794 became the main town in the Lithuanian guberniya.; from 1802, the guberniya town of the Wilno guberniya.
		Although Wilno was misshapen and badly built, as maintained by the Fleming, as the capital of the mighty ruler it had a prospering trade and a large variety of tradesmen and merchants.
		Wilno was witness and stage to two events one of which left its mark on the historical map of the country during Jan III reign and the other offended the public morals.
	www.polishroots.org /slownik/wilno.htm (19221 words)

	US Bazaar.com : Encyclopedia Pages : Wilno
		On February 20, 1922, the whole area was made a part of Poland, with Vilnius as the capital of the Wilno Voivodship (Wilno being the name of Vilnius in Polish).
		The Lithuanian government fled to a temporary capital Kaunas and stated that Poland had illegally annexed and occupied Vilnius and diplomatic relations between Lithuania and Poland were severed until 1938.
		The rural town of Wilno, Ontario, Canada was named after the Polish name for Vilnius in the 1860s.
	encyclopedia.us-bazaar.com /?title=Wilno (2998 words)

	Voivodships of Poland - Article from FactBug.org - the fast Wikipedia mirror site (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		In place of the three-level administrative division (voivodship, county, commune), a new two-level administrative division was introduced (49 small voivodships and communes).
		The three smallest voivodships -- Warsaw, Cracow and Lodz -- had the special status of municipal voivodship; the city president (mayor) was also provincial governor.
		Newly acquired territories in the west and north were organised into the voivodships of Szczecin, Wrocław, Olsztyn and partially joined to Gdańsk, Katowice and Poznań voivodships.
	www.factbug.org /cgi-bin/a.cgi?a=41512 (503 words)

	Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Each voivodship had its own parliament (sejmik), which exercised serious political power, including choice of poseł (deputy) to the national Sejm and charging of the deputy with specific voting instructions.
		Each voivodship was governed by a voivod (governor).
		Voivodships were further divided into starostwa, each starostwo being governed by a starosta.
	88.208.194.172 /wiki/index.php/Polish-Lithuanian_Commonwealth (4751 words)

	Kids.Net.Au - Encyclopedia > Zarnowiec (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Żarnowiec is a village in northern Poland, in the northern part of the Pomorskie voivodship, close to Zarnowieckie lake[?].
		In 1772 it was taken over by Prussia, after first partition of Poland.
		It was refounded in 1946 by a female order of Benedictines from Wilno (Vilnius).
	www.kids.net.au /encyclopedia-wiki/za/Zarnowiec?title=Chelmno (252 words)

	Wikipedia: Torun
		One of the capitals of the Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodship (since 1999), previously capital of Torun Voivodship (1975-1998) and the Pomeranian Voivodship (1921-1939).
		A university in Toruń was founded in 1945, based on the people of University of Wilno.
		1919 After World War I, under the Treaty of Versailles, the city returned to Polish sovereignty, becoming the capital of the province of Pomeranian Voivodship.
	www.factbook.org /wikipedia/en/t/to/torun.html (648 words)

	Clinton Goveas :: Wikipedia Reference
		The city of Vilna (Lithuanian Vilnius, Polish Wilno) was made the capital of Lithuania, despite being mainly Polish in ethnicity.
		The city and its surroundings were proclaimed a separate state of Central Lithuania and on 20 February 1922 the local parliament passed the Unification Act and the city was incorporated into Poland as the capital of the Wilno Voivodship.
		Eventually, the League accepted Wilno as a Polish town on March 15, 1923.
	www.clintongoveas.com /wikipedia/?title=League_of_Nations (6455 words)

	Wilno Voivodeship - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		After Poland and Lithuania regained independence as separate entities in 1918 it was a contensted area between those countries, in 1922 being won over by Poland.
		The early voivodeship that existed until the partitions, was composed of five smaller units of administrative division named powiat (in Lithuanian: plural - pavietai, singular - pavietas), roughly correspondent to British Counties:
		After Lithuania regained independnece, Wilno Voivodship became part of modern Lithuanian administrative division.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wilno_Voivodship (468 words)

	The Ultimate Kresy - American History Information Guide and Reference
		During 1921—1939 (Second Polish Republic), Kresy comprised of the following voivodships (from North to South and then to the West, see the 1939 map in the Voivodships of Poland article).
		As a consequence of the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact, on September 17, 1939 the Soviet Union occupied Kresy and Białystok Voivodship, and a significant part of the Polish population was deported to the Soviet Union.
		After the German invasion, a significant part of the Kresy population was transferred to Germany as workforce (Ostarbeiter, "Eastern workers").
	www.historymania.com /american_history/Kresy (356 words)

	Vilnius - Gurupedia
		In 1655 Wilno was captured by the forces of Muscovy.
		On February 20, 1922 the local parliament passed an Unification Act and the city was incorporated to Poland as the capital of the Wilno Voivodship.
		By 1931 Wilno had 195 000 inhabitants which made it the fifth biggest city in Poland.
	www.gurupedia.com /v/vi/vilnius.htm (1734 words)

	Vilnius - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Wilno, Russian: Вильнюс, formerly Вильно, German: Wilna; see also other alternative names) is the capital and largest city of Lithuania
		The city and its surroundings were proclaimed a separate state of Central Lithuania (Litwa Środkowa).
		On February 20, 1922, the whole area was made a part of Poland, with Vilnius as the capital of the Wilno Voivodship.
	en.wikipedia.2es.com.pl /wiki/Vilnius (3157 words)

	PolishRoots - Herbarz Polski
		In 1695, he was Canon of Smolensk and Inflanty, the Rector of Wilkomir and Szac, and later, the sufragan and coadjutor of the Bishop of Wilno, Brzostowski.
		ANCUTA, Maciej, the aforementioned Bishop of' Wilno, died of' apoplexy in 1723.
		Jerzy, cousin of the Bishop, was a consultant to the Lithuanian Prince, in 1724, and died in Wilno.
	www.polishroots.com /herbarz/ancuta.htm (439 words)

	Osmanlı Tarihi Kültürü Medeniyeti Edebiyatı Sanatı
		If such a commonwealth of countries existed in 2005, it might have been the 10th largest economy in the world.
		Together with the third province, Grand Duchy of Lithuania, those were the only three regions that could be properly referred to as provinces.
		The Commonwealth was further divided into smaller administrative units known as voivodships (wojewÃ³dztwa).
	www.osmanlimedeniyeti.com /wiki/Polish-Lithuanian_Commonwealth_.html (4551 words)

	Voivodship - Toseeka Search Results
		The Silesian Voivodship has borders on the Czech Republic and Slovakia.
		City of Łódź was excluded as a separate City Voivodship.
		A Voivodeship, also spelled Voivodship, Voivodina or Vojvodina (Romanian: voievodat, Polish: województwo, Serbian: vojvodina (војводина), vojvodstvo (војводство) or vojvodovina (војводовина), Hungarian: vajdaság, Lithuanian: vaivadija), is a geographical unit of administration dating to medieval Romania, Hungary, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Russia and Serbia (see Vojvodina), ruled by a Voivod (voivode, wojewoda).
	www.toseeka.com /subject/Voivodship (278 words)

	Torun - Article from FactBug.org - the fast Wikipedia mirror site (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		One of the capitals of the Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodship (since 1999), previously the capital of the Toruń Voivodship (1975-1998) and the Pomeranian Voivodship (1921-1939), the city is located near the Geographic Center of Europe.
		The city became Polish after the borders were redrawn under the Potsdam Agreement reached at the end of World War II, Toruń is now located close to the geographic centre of Poland.
		Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń was founded in 1945, based on the people of Toruń Scientific Society, Stefan Batory University in Wilno and Jan Kazimierz University in Lvov.
	www.factbug.org /cgi-bin/a.cgi?a=31258 (854 words)

	Vilnius - TvWiki, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Vilnius (Belarusian: Вільня, Polish: Image:Ltspkr.png Wilno, Russian: Вильнюс, formerly Вильно, German: Wilna; see also cities' alternative names) is the capital and largest city of Lithuania, with a population of over 540,000 in 2003.
		On October 9, 1920 the Lithuanian-Belarusian Division of the Polish Army under General Lucjan Żeligowski seized the city after a staged mutiny.
		The city and its surroundings were proclaimed a separate state of Central Lithuania (Litwa Środkowa) and, after free parliamentary elections, in a result of the decision of the Central Lithuanian Parliament, on February 20 1922 the whole area was made a part of Poland, with Vilnius as the capital of the Wilno Voivodship.
	www.tvwiki.tv /wiki/Vilnius (2729 words)

	Vilnius - the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		On October 9, 1920 the troops of Polish Army (gen. Lucjan Żeligowski) seized the city after a staged mutiny.
		The city and itssurroundings were proclaimed a separate "state" of CentralLithuania and on 1922 the city was illegally incorporated into Poland as the capital ofthe Wilno Voivodship.
		The Conference of Ambassadors accepted the status quo in 1923,yet the city remained a territory disputed between Poland and Lithuania (the constitutions of Lithuania always mentioned Vilniusas a capital of the state).
	www.myonlyebay.com /default.asp?t=Vilnius (1722 words)

	Torun
		One of the capitals of the Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodship (since 1999), previously capital of Toruń Voivodship; (1975-1998) and the Pomeranian Voivodship (1921-1939), the city is near the Geographic Center of Europe.
		Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń (([1])was founded in 1945, based on the people of Toruń Scientific Society;, Stefan Batory University in Wilno and Jan Kazimierz University in Lvov.
		1919 After World War I, under the Treaty of Versailles, the city became part of Poland, becoming the capital of the province of Pomeranian Voivodship.
	www.knowledgefun.com /book/t/to/torun.html (752 words)

	League of Nations (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, rising Lithuanian nationalism prevented the recreation of the former federated state.
		Polish Wilno) was made the capital of Lithuania, despite being mainly Polish in ethnicity.
		Both the United Kingdom and France also wished to have Poland as a 'buffer zone' between Europe and the possible threat from Communist Russia.
	articles.industrialsoft.org /wp/l/League_of_Nations.htm (5153 words)

	Spartanburg SC \| GoUpstate.com \| Spartanburg Herald-Journal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		However, as the different national groups were located in a patchwork of mixed settlement patterns, much of the territory had its own significant local non-Polish majority (Ukrainians in the south and Belarusians in the North), especially in the rural areas.
		Add the coniguous territory of Wolyn Voivodship (70 percent Ukrainian) and the Ukrainian majority in the area becomes overwhelming...
		The eastern half of Poland could be divided into three zones north to south.
	www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Polish_areas_annexed_by_the_Soviet_Union (942 words)

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