Poznań Voivodeship (1919–1939)
| Poznań Voivodeship Województwo Poznańskie | |||||||||
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| Voivodeship of Poland | |||||||||
| 1919–1939 | |||||||||
Location of Poznań Voivodeship (red) within the Second Republic of Poland (1938). | |||||||||
| Capital | Poznań | ||||||||
| Area | |||||||||
| • Coordinates | 52°24′N 16°55′E / 52.400°N 16.917°E | ||||||||
• 1921 | 26,528 km2 (10,243 sq mi) | ||||||||
• 1931 | 26,528 km2 (10,243 sq mi) | ||||||||
• 1939 | 28,089 km2 (10,845 sq mi) | ||||||||
| Population | |||||||||
• 1921 | 1,967,865 | ||||||||
• 1931 | 2,339,600 | ||||||||
| Government | |||||||||
| Voivode | |||||||||
• Aug–October 1919 (first) | Wojciech Trąmpczyński | ||||||||
• September 1939 (last) | Cyryl Ratajski | ||||||||
| History | |||||||||
• Established | 1 August 1919 | ||||||||
| 1 April 1938 | |||||||||
• Annexed | 12 September 1939 | ||||||||
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Poznań Voivodeship (Polish: Województwo Poznańskie) was a unit of administrative division and local government in Poland in the years 1919–1939, created after World War I from the Prussian-German province of Poznań (Province of Posen). The borders were changed in 1939: the city of Bydgoszcz passed to the Pomeranian Voivodeship, but some eastern areas were included (see Territorial changes of Polish Voivodeships on April 1, 1938).
During World War II, it was occupied by Nazi Germany and annexed as Reichsgau Wartheland "(Reich province of the Land of the Warta River)".