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    Wołyń Voivodeship or Wołyń Province was an administrative region of interwar Poland (1918–1939) with an area of 35,754 km², 22 cities, and provincial capital...
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  • Volhynian Voivodeship or Wołyń Voivodeship may refer to: Volhynian Voivodeship (1569–1795) Wołyń Voivodeship (1793) [pl] Wołyń Voivodeship (19211939) This...
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    Sarny (category Wołyń Voivodeship (19211939))
    seat of a Sarny county (powiat), firstly in Polesie Voivodeship, then, since 1930 – in Wołyń Voivodeship. During this period, four hotels were constructed...
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  • Janusz Gronowski (category People from Wołyń Voivodeship (19211939))
    Janusz Ignacy Gronowski (2 January 1935 – 14 June 2024) was a Polish athlete. He competed in the men's pole vault at the 1960 Summer Olympics. Gronowski...
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    Staryi Chortoryisk (category Wołyń Voivodeship (19211939))
    Staryi Chortoryisk (Ukrainian: Старий Чорторийськ, translit. Staryi Chortoryis'k, Polish: Czartorysk) is a village (selo) in north-western Ukraine. It...
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    of Poland, a part of World War II. Raised from recruits in the area of Wołyń, the division was posted to the Łódź Army. During several desperate counter-attacks...
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    interwar period, the city was known as Łuck and was part of the Wołyń Voivodeship (19211939) in the Second Polish Republic. Łuck was in the eastern part...
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    Rivne (category Wołyń Voivodeship (19211939))
    in Poland as a district-level (county) seat in Wolyn Voivodeship. At the start of World War II in 1939, Rivne was occupied by the Soviet Red Army and...
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    12th Podolian Uhlan Regiment (category Wołyń Voivodeship (19211939))
    this brigade until its mobilization in August 1939. During the mobilization of the Polish Army (summer 1939), 12th Podolian Uhlan Regiment was transferred...
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    Michael Antonyuk (category People from Wołyń Voivodeship (19211939))
    Michael Yakovlevich Antonyuk (Russian: Михаил Яковлевич Антонюк; (12 March 1935 – 14 April 1993) was a prominent honorary artist of the Republic of Kazakhstan...
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  • Joe Tarnowski (category People from Wołyń Voivodeship (19211939))
    Josef "Joe" Tarnowski (19 March 1922, in Maniewicze – 12 September 2010, in Edinburgh) was a Polish-Scottish electronics engineer and intelligence officer...
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    Volodymyr, Volyn Oblast (category Wołyń Voivodeship (19211939))
    was invaded by Tatars. From 1566 to 1795 it was part of the Volhynian Voivodeship. It was a royal city of Poland. Most of the city's landmarks were built...
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    Anna Walentynowicz (category People from Wołyń Voivodeship (19211939))
    Anna Walentynowicz (Polish pronunciation: [ˈanna valɛntɨˈnɔvʲit͡ʂ]; née Lubczyk; 15 August 1929 – 10 April 2010) was a Polish free trade union activist...
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    Bogusław Litwiniec (category People from Wołyń Voivodeship (19211939))
    Bogusław Litwiniec (1 November 1931 – 25 December 2022) was a Polish theatre director and politician. A member of the Democratic Left Alliance, he served...
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  • Battle of Szack (category Wołyń Voivodeship (19211939))
    was one of the battles between the Polish Army and the Red Army fought in 1939 in the beginning of the Second World War. During the invasion of Poland,...
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  • Było sobie miasteczko... (category Wołyń Voivodeship (19211939))
    massacre in the village of Kisielin (now Kysylyn), located in the Wołyń Voivodeship in Poland before World War II, (now in Ukraine). The film, directed...
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    Horokhiv (category Wołyń Voivodeship (19211939))
    Empire; from 1921 to 1939 it was part of Wołyń Voivodeship of Poland. A railway station was built here in 1924-1925. Since September 1939 it was a part...
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    Volhynian District (1919–1920) (category Wołyń Voivodeship (19211939))
    Volhynian District was a district of the Civil Administration of the Eastern Lands from September 1919 to January 1920, Civil Administration of the Lands...
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    Netreba was a village in Wołyń Voivodeship (19211939), in Sarny county, gmina Kisorycze, Poland, destroyed by the UPA in July 1943. Many of its residents...
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    Kovel (category Wołyń Voivodeship (19211939))
    from the original on 4 July 2022. illustration Rąkowski, Grzegorz (2005). Wołyń. Pruszków: Oficyna Wydawnicza "Rewasz". p. 85. ISBN 83-89188-32-5. Gembarzewski...
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    Wladimir Wertelecki (category People from Wołyń Voivodeship (19211939))
    Wladimir Wertelecki is a pediatrician and medical geneticist. In 1974, he established one of the first free-standing Departments of Medical Genetics at...
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  • Romuald Jankowski (category People from Wołyń Voivodeship (19211939))
    Romuald Jankowski Born (1934-02-19)19 February 1934 Lutsk, Wołyń Voivodeship, Poland Died 12 February 1994(1994-02-12) (aged 59) Warsaw, Poland Nationality...
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  • Sarny Fortified Area (category Wołyń Voivodeship (19211939))
    in mid-September 1939 to abandon the bunkers and to move with their equipment towards the Romanian Bridgehead. On 16 September 1939, the eve of Soviet...
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    Leonid Kravchuk (category People from Wołyń Voivodeship (19211939))
    Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic after the Soviet invasion of Poland in 1939 when Kravchuk was a child. His father served in the Polish army during the...
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  • Volodymyrets (category Wołyń Voivodeship (19211939))
    Volodymyrets (Ukrainian: Володимирець, Russian: Влaдимирец, Polish: Włodzimierzec) is a rural settlement in Rivne Oblast (province) in western Ukraine...
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  • Kupychiv (category Wołyń Voivodeship (19211939))
    Kupychiv (then Kupiczów) was part of the Kovel county, Volhynian Voivodeship. In 1939, it had around 1000 inhabitants, most of whom were Czechs, also some...
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    21st Vistula Uhlan Regiment (category Wołyń Voivodeship (19211939))
    in early September 1921, the unit was loaded on a train, and transported to Rowne, where it remained until 1939. In March 1921, Polish military authorities...
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  • Żeniówka massacre (category Villages in Wołyń Voivodeship)
    Ziniówka, Ziuniuwka or Ziniejowka, was a Polish settlement in the Wołyń Voivodeship (19211939), gmina Warkowicze, Dubno county, on the Ikva River, in Second...
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    Verba, Rivne Oblast (category Wołyń Voivodeship (19211939))
    Verba (Ukrainian: Верба; Polish: Werba) is a village in Dubno Raion, Rivne Oblast, Ukraine. In 2001, the community had 2,863 residents. The first written...
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    Novomalyn (category Wołyń Voivodeship (19211939))
    Novomalyn (Ukrainian: Новомалин, Russian: Новомалин, Polish: Nowomalin) is a village in Rivne Raion, Rivne Oblast, Ukraine, but was formerly administered...
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