Tarnopol Voivodeship

Tarnopol Voivodeship Województwo tarnopolskie
Voivodeship of Poland
1920–1939
Coat of arms
Tarnopol Voivodeship (red) on the map of Second Polish Republic[1]
Capital	Tarnopol
Area
• 1921	16,533 km2 (6,383 sq mi)
Population
• 1921	1,428,520
• 1931	1,600,406
Government
• Type	Voivodeship
Voivodes
• 1921–1923	Karol Olpiński
• 1937–1939	Tomasz Malicki
Historical era	Interwar period
• Established	23 December 1920
• Soviet invasion	17 September 1939
Political subdivisions	17 powiats, 35 towns
Preceded by Succeeded by Ukrainian People's Republic Ukraine SSR
Today part of	Ukraine

Tarnopol Voivodeship (Polish: Województwo tarnopolskie; Ukrainian: Тернопільське воєводство, romanized: Ternopilske voievodstvo) was an administrative region of interwar Poland (1918–1939), created on 23 December 1920, with an area of 16,500 km² and provincial capital in Tarnopol (now Ternopil, Ukraine). The voivodeship was divided into 17 districts (powiaty). At the end of World War II, at the insistence of Joseph Stalin during the Tehran Conference of 1943 without official Polish representation whatsoever, the borders of Poland were redrawn by the Allies. The Polish population was forcibly resettled after the defeat of Nazi Germany and the Tarnopol Voivodeship was incorporated into the Ukrainian SSR of the Soviet Union. Since 1991, most of the region is located in the Ternopil Oblast in sovereign Ukraine.