Almost all states are somehow divided into regions, districts, etc., depending on the structure of the country. In this regard, Poland is no exception. The administrative division of the state implies the division of the country into voivodeships. These units are entrusted with special functions of self-government. Voivodships of Poland have their own capitals - the largest administrative centers in each of the regions of the country.

What is a voivodeship?

Voivodeships are usually called the largest administrative units of a given state. The functions of executive power belong to the marshal. They represent the regions in the national council of ministers of the voivode.

What are the powers of the authorities of the administrative units? First of all, these are issues that are not resolved at the city and poviat levels. Voivodships of Poland have the right to solve problems related to the distribution of funds, trade within the region. Also in their competence are issues related to education, both school and university, as well as investment.

Voivodeship capitals

Each province has its own capital. It is the largest city in the region and hosts the local government. The center of a voivodeship in Poland is generally the cultural, economic and political centre. The state, in accordance with the reform of 1999, is divided into 16 administrative units with their own capitals.

It should be said about the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship with its center in Olsztyn, Lodz with the capital Lodz, Mazowiecki with Warsaw, Opolski with the city of Opole, Sventoshisk and the city of Kielce, Greater Poland (Poznan); Lublin (Lublin); Lower Silesia (Wroclaw); Podlasie (Bialystok); Silesian (Katowice); Pomeranian (Gdansk); West Pomeranian (Szczecin); Lubuskiy (Gorzow Wielkopolski and Zielona Góra); Subcarpathian (Rzeszow); Kuyavsko-Pomeranian (Bydgoszcz and Torun), as well as Malopolska (Krakow).

History reference

According to the original plan, it was supposed to divide the state into 12 parts, but later they took as a basis the scheme that was considered in 1975 and provided for the division into 17 large regions. Thus, the reform of 1999 reduced the voivodships of Poland from 49 to 16. Moreover, a sufficient number of large cities lost the title of capital. Below you will find information about some regions of the state.

Masovian Voivodeship

The largest in the state is the Masovian Voivodeship. Poland owes him his famous capital Warsaw. In this part of the country there are a large number of famous sights and historical monuments. Travelers love to come to see wonderful palaces, dense forests and villages that offer travelers a lot of new things. Here you can have a wonderful rest.

The usual tourist route in Masovia includes visiting Plock, Wyshogrod, Modlin, Mława, Ciechanów, as well as the castle in Czersk.

The region is home to F. Chopin and J. Kochanowski, which also attracts those who travel in Poland.

In this voivodeship, there is an opportunity to plunge into the waters of such rivers as the Bug, Narew, Wkra, as well as swim in the Zegrze Bay. The Land of Mazovia will pamper travelers with fish pâté, salceson and honey beer.

Lublin Voivodeship

The voivodships of Poland also include the Lubelskie or Lubelskie Voivodeship. The Poles living in this region honor guests with traditional food such as cybulyaki, pralines, and you can also taste wonderfully flavored raspberry and currant wine.

The capital of the voivodeship is Lublin, which has an ancient history. Here you can feel like a participant in a real knight tournament, visit the territory of the Old Market, look at Grudskaya Brama, etc.

Do you think that the atmosphere of bygone centuries is difficult to feel in Eastern Europe? The Lubelskie Voivodeship proves the opposite. Poland provides an opportunity to feel like a resident of a medieval city. In addition to historical sights, there are a large number of natural monuments. What are the forests, the spurs of the Carpathian Mountains and nature reserves like Kazimierz. The feeling of the grandeur of nature will wash over you in these places, so that positive emotions and aesthetic pleasure are provided.

The pearl of the Lubelskie Voivodeship is considered to be monuments and places for recreation in the towns, among which the sights of Nalenczow, Radyn-Podlaskie, Chelm, Pulawy, etc. should be noted. They can become an ideal haven for those who are looking for an atmosphere of peace, and also yearn to enjoy the views of ancient architecture , learn more about Polish history, folk myths and legends.

Pomeranian Voivodeship

One of the most picturesque and attractive voivodeships for tourists is Pomeranian. Here, travelers relax in boarding houses on Lake Chazhikovsky, as well as in the valley. The traditions of the ancient Pomor Slavs, combined with the waters of the Baltic Sea, are a great combination for a great vacation.

Pomeranian Voivodeship (Poland) will give you a medieval fairy tale of the Teutonic and Kwidzin), the unique atmosphere of the emerald Kashubian and the sandy coast with a magnificent landscape.

You can try delicious cabbage rolls with liver and mushrooms, Kashubian dumplings, as well as which the inhabitants of the voivodship keep in the strictest confidence.

Among the interesting cities of the region are Ustka, Leba, as well as Sopot in the Tricity - one of the largest agglomerations of the country. Tourists from year to year come to enjoy the beauty of the sand dunes in the Slovinsky Reserve, as well as the wild Tucholski Bor, where you can go kayaking on the Brda or Vda rivers.

If you are looking for the atmosphere of a medieval Eastern European city, you should look at the old bridges in Tczew or learn more about the unusual secrets of the Kociewski Fortress. Pomorie will also provide the traveler with the opportunity to enjoy the beauty of the dunes and crossings in Zhulavy.

• Lublin (Polish Lublin) is a city in eastern Poland, the administrative center of the Lublin Voivodeship. The area of ​​the city is 147.5 km².
• Adm. the center of one of the Polish provinces
• Administrative center of the Polish Voivodeship
• City in Poland, the administrative center of one of the provinces
• The administrative center of one of the Polish provinces
• Polish city with a "favorite" name
• Opole (Polish Opole, forces Uopole), until 1945 Oppeln (German Oppeln) is a city in Poland on the Odra River, the capital of the Opole Voivodeship.
• Port city in Poland, on the Odra River, the center of the voivodeship
• Adm. center of the Polish voivodeship
• Administrative center of the Polish Voivodeship
• Polish city on the Odra river
• Polish city in Upper Silesia
• Polish city
• Polish port on the Odra river
• One of the oldest Polish cities

POZNAN

• A city in the western part of Poland, on the Warta River, the administrative center of the Poznań Voivodeship; in the X-XI centuries. residence of Polish princes
• Center of one of the Polish provinces
• Polish city on the river Vatra
• Polish city on the Warta river
• Zamość (Polish Zamość, old transcription Zamośc, Ukrainian Zamość, old Russified forms of the name: Zamość, Zamość, Zamoście, Zamoście) is a city in the Lublin Voivodeship of Poland, about 240 km southeast of Warsaw and 110 km northwest of Lviv.
• (Zamosc) a city in the southeast of Poland, the administrative center of the Zamosc Voivodeship

1) In the final part of the walk around Bialystok, we will see the central Lime Street, which in the days of the Russian Empire was considered the most prestigious, if someone's mansion of a Polish pan or Russian nobleman was there, and just the city itself, which I will no longer sign under the heading " sleeping areas", nor "historic center". Everything is together here now.
"Let's go" - as Max says at the beginning of each program "+100500".

2) Shortly after my visit, my classmate in the PFUR philosophical group Katya Nadezhkina and her husband Nikolai visited Bialystok. Here is what Nikolay wrote: “Bialystok is beautiful, I was struck by the smell, it smells very tasty everywhere, I haven’t seen anything like this anywhere. In general, I really liked Bialystok. I’m local, I’ll get there, and you’ll get completely lost.” Bialystok is the only large city northeast of Warsaw, around it, in the very outback of the Podlasie Voivodeship, I saw several villages with wooden black churches, and, most likely, Catholic ones. It was an extremely interesting find, which I did not photograph, now it's a shame. Maybe I should have got off the bus, but the uncertainty about crossing the border of the Kaliningrad region of Russia was very tormenting then. Fortunately, in the city of Suwalki, free Wi-Fi worked at the bus station, thanks to which I read that at the Goldap-Gusev border crossing it is possible to cross the border on foot. That's where I went. In Bialystok, there are also 2 omissions: I never saw the Belarusian Orthodox Church and a chic Baroque church 1 km from it. The city is rather big, with a population of just under 300,000 people.

3) Sculpture "Washerwomen" ("Praczki"). The sculptural group represents three women who wash on their knees, made in 1938 by order of the then governor of Bialystok by sculptor Stanislav Gorno-Poplavsky.

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5) An extension to the Branitsky Palace, where the Medical Institute is now, which I already wrote about here.

6) "Ploshcha Jozef Pilsudski".

7) "Alley of lovers".

8) Interwar architecture in the face of the Drama Theater. Alexander Vengerki, built in 1933-38. designed by architect Yaroslav Girin as the People's House. Jozef Pilsudski. At the end of the construction, it was decided to build the City Theater instead of the Palace of Culture.

9) This building is connected with the events of world history: on August 23, the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact was signed with secret protocols on the division of spheres of influence in Eastern Europe between Germany and the USSR after unsuccessful attempts by the Soviet Union to stop German aggression against the Sudetenland of Czechoslovakia, when, as a result of the Munich treaty, with the connivance of England and France, Czechoslovakia was forced to transfer the northwestern territories to Nazi Germany (it was Poland that did not let the Soviet military contingent to Prague, which is interesting, Poland itself in the 1920s wrested the Vilna region from Lithuania, a little-mentioned fact in political battles, by the way); On September 1, 1939, Germany attacks Poland, and on September 17, the USSR annexes / returns Western Ukraine and Western Belarus. And it was here in Bialystok in this theater building on October 28-30, 1939 that the so-called. People's Assembly. Nearly 1,000 delegates adopted here a declaration on the entry of Western Belarus into the Belarusian Soviet Socialist Republic.

10) On the left is a freight car - an indirect memory of Katyn, when, after the annexation of Bialystok and the Polish eastern territories to the USSR, many Polish citizens were exiled to Siberia and Kazakhstan, sent in these freight trains. I myself am half Pole by nationality and wanted to learn more about my Polish roots, for this I had to go to Konotop, Sumy region of Ukraine, where my grandfather was born, and my great-grandfather from Ternopil, who was repressed in 1937 - nothing more is known, alas.

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12) Square them. Home Army, subordinate to the Polish government in exile and the supreme commander of the Polish armed forces, who was in the UK. The main goal of the AK was the restoration of the Polish state with the support of Great Britain and the United States. The AK was preparing for a general uprising at the moment the front was approaching or in the event of a general collapse of the German armed forces. With regard to the USSR, the AK commander, General of Division Stefan Rowiecki, proceeded from the concept of two enemies, according to which Germany and Russia, drained of blood by a long confrontation, should have lost the opportunity for further military operations, which would allow the AK, with the support of Great Britain and the United States, to raise a victorious nationwide uprising.
Refusal to cooperate with the People's Army supported by the USSR and the advancing Red Army in the summer of 1944 became the main reason for the defeat of the Warsaw Uprising, during which about 150,000 Home Army rebels were killed and 7,000 went missing, 85% of Warsaw was destroyed (painfully, the fate is similar to Kaliningrad ). Hitler ordered Heinrich Himmler, the Reichsfuehrer SS, to put down the uprising. Himmler immediately gave the order to kill all the inhabitants of Warsaw - regardless of whether they were rebels, children, women, old people - and the city itself to be razed to the ground.
It is also a painful point in Russian-Polish relations, when the USSR and I. Stalin are now accused, who ordered to stop the troops in front of the Vistula River on the outskirts of Warsaw, given that the Soviet army during the operation "Bagration" overcame 700-800 km in 3 months not without loss.

13) Steep bike path across White Creek

14) This is a guest house at the palace of Jan Klemens Branicki. Here he is, a man who has invested his money and love in the place where he lives.

15) Factory.

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17) Hotel building.

18) The building of the cultural center of Belarus in Bialystok, the so-called. "cultural partnership of Belarusian citizens".

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20) A direct trace of the Russian Empire - a modern building of the historical museum of Białystok in the Podlasie region with a collection of 16,000 coins. By the way, in Poland it is Russian royal coins that are highly valued. In Klintsy, I have several acquaintances who travel with metal detectors through abandoned Old Believer villages and look for old coins in the gardens. In Klintsy they are sold at 30-300 rubles / piece, in Moscow 100-500, in Poland I saw simple copper coins of the late 19th century on numismatic sites for 1500 rubles.

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23) Warsaw street.

24) Neon signs from the era of Poland.

25) Poles.

26) Bialystok State University, Faculty of Economics and Management (here, feel the Polish language - Wydział Ekonomii i Zarządzania Uniwersytetu w Białymstoku).

27) Interwar.

28) Now, for a change, a sleeping area.

29) city of Klintsy, Voroshilov street, 52

30) I will say this, meeting LADA 2110 in Poland is a great success. There were statistics on sales of LADA cars in Poland in the 2000s, according to which 30 cars were sold in this country per year. 30 "Lada" per year for 38 million in the country. Do not compare with Belarus, where they sell 2000 LADA per year for 9.5 million, 6000-9000 in Egypt for 90 million inhabitants or 2000 in Germany for 81 million people ... well, or 100 VAZ cars in Finland for 5 million . population of the country. By the way, in Lithuania and Estonia they are now selling 2-3 LADA cars for 3 and 1.2 million people in these countries.

31) Well, "Ten" looks good on the Polish courtyard. Once I made a selection of our cars seen in other countries outside the CIS borders, at that time I shot cars in Egypt, Germany and Finland, now I would also add Iraq with Vietnam and Poland.

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33) GDR-ovsky passenger car Wartburg, produced in 1965-1988.

34) Garbage can.

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36) From the sleeping area, let's walk along the once fashionable Lipovaya Street. Once upon a time, lindens grew here, along the entire street, now there are few trees. Once, on the wave of easy money, local Jewish cloth manufacturers built here luxurious villas by the standards of a county town - but the Second World War tried. The street was seriously damaged during the German occupation, and then after the war, the authorities of the Polish People's Republic decided not to restore the historical building and not even style the modern one, as was done on Rynok Square. So along the Lipovaya appeared quite large, mostly residential buildings of the "architecture of socialist realism".

41) Service in the church.

42) A small sample of the Esperanto language.
This is how Bialystok I saw turned out to be, the first part of which caused a sharp controversy with a Russian-speaking citizen of Lithuania, and in subsequent posts there was only a guidebook format. I watched all this in 1 day, starting from the arrival on the morning of June 20 on my birthday in Grodno, then at 10.00 already in the Polish center of the voivodeship, and walked until 21.00 :))

Each country has its own territorial-administrative structure: in the USA these are the states, in Germany - the federal lands, in Switzerland - the cantons. In Poland, voivodeships are the territorial-administrative unit.

The division into voivodships in Poland began in the Middle Ages, and their number changed all the time.

After the Second World War, the country was divided into 14 provinces, and after 30 years there were already 49.

According to the latest administrative reform in 1999, there are 16 voivodeships in Poland.

They are headed by governors who are appointed by the Council of Ministers. Executive power in the voivodeships is exercised by the Marshal, who heads the voivodeship sejmik.

Masovian Voivodeship

The largest in Poland is the Mazowieckie Voivodeship, because it is here that its capital, Warsaw, is located.

The largest cities in the voivodship are Plock, Radom, Siedlce, Ostroleka. This region has developed electrical, oil refining, pharmaceutical, printing and food industries.

Lesser Poland Voivodeship

This is a southern voivodeship, and its capital is ancient Krakow.

Wawel, Rynok Square, ancient churches, the Jagiellonian University - people come here to get acquainted with the past of the country. The cities of Tarnow, Wadowice, Dębno, and Biecz are located on the territory of Lesser Poland.

The ski resort of Zakopane is called the winter capital of Poland, and you can improve your health at the mineral resorts of Shawnica, Krynica Zdrój or Rabka Zdrój.

Łódź Voivodeship

It is located in the very center of Poland. The capital of the region is the city of Lodz, the center of the country's textile industry.

Łódź also brought worldwide fame to its cinematographic school, where such masters of cinema as Andrzej Wajda, Krzysztof Zanussi, Roman Polanski studied.

Also here are such large cities as Piotrkow Trybunalski, Belchatow, Pabianice, Zgierz.

Greater Poland Voivodeship

It was here that the birth of the Polish state took place.

The capital of the voivodeship is the city of Poznań, and in total there are over a hundred cities, the most important of which are Leszno, Kalisz and Konin.

Gas, oil, brown coal, peat, as well as pink rock salt are extracted on the territory of the voivodship.

Silesian Voivodeship

This southern voivodeship occupies a small area with a high population density. The main city is Katowice, and besides it there are also Czestochowa, Gliwice, Sosnowiec.

The metallurgical, chemical, and coal industries are developed here. And in the Beskydy, a recreational area has been created for rest and recovery of health.

Opolskie Voivodeship

The smallest voivodeship is located in southwestern Poland. Its capital is the ancient city of Opole. You can plunge into the atmosphere of medieval Poland by visiting Kendzierzyn-Kozle, Paczow, Brzeg and Nysa.

Opolskie Voivodeship is an industrial region.

Lublin Voivodeship

The voivodeship is located in the east of the country, where it borders on Ukraine and Belarus. The main city - Lublin has a rich history that began a thousand years ago.

Today Lublin is a major industrial, scientific and student center of Poland, and agriculture is very developed in the region.

Major cities in the Lublin region include Chelm, Pulawy and Biala Podlaska.

Lubusz Voivodeship

The peculiarity of this small province is that it has two capitals - Zielona Góra and Gorzów Wielkopolski.

Most of its territory is occupied by forests, where nature reserves and landscape parks are located.

Large cities of the voivodeship: Nowa Sol, Zagan, Sulechow, Zary.

Pomeranian Voivodeship

This voivodeship is considered to be a resort region, as tourists are attracted by recreation, both on the Baltic coast and on the clean lakes of the region.

The capital of Pomerania is Gdansk, but the cities of Sopot, Gdynia and Słupsk also play an important role.

Shipbuilding, mechanical engineering, petrochemical and food industries, as well as amber mining are developed in the region.

Warmino-Masurian Voivodeship

This is the most beautiful and ecologically clean region of Poland - the “green lungs” of the country.

The main center is Olsztyn. The voivodship has access to the sea, where the ports of Elblag, Frombork and Tolkmicko are located.

In addition to tourism, the region has a developed food industry and agriculture.

Podlaskie Voivodeship

This voivodeship is adjacent to Lithuania and Belarus. The capital is Bialystok.

The most important wealth of these places is nature, preserved almost untouched.

The largest cities in the region are Suwalki and Lomza.

Subcarpathian Voivodeship

The voivodeship is located in the southeast of the country and borders on Slovakia and Ukraine. Its administrative center is the city of Zhuszow. Thanks to the beautiful nature, mineral water springs, as well as the presence of religious and secular attractions, this is one of the most popular regions among tourists.

The major cities of the voivodeship are Przemysl, Stalowa Wola.

West Pomeranian Voivodeship

In the west, the voivodship borders on Germany, and in the north it has access to the Baltic. The capital is located in the city of Szczecin.

The most developed in the region are shipbuilding, ship repair and food industries, as well as agriculture. The towns of Svinouste, Kołobrzeg and Polchin are popular mineral resorts.

Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship

Although the voivodship is called "Pomeranian", it has no access to the sea. Most of its territory is occupied by parks and reserves.

The major cities of the voivodship are Bydgoszcz, Torun and Wloclawek, located on the banks of the Vistula. Capital functions were divided between Torun and Bydgoszcz.

Agriculture plays an important role in the region's economy, as well as the woodworking and paper industries.

Lower Silesian Voivodeship

This voivodship occupies the south-west of Poland, where it shares borders with Germany and the Czech Republic. The capital is in Wroclaw.

This region has everything - beautiful nature, resorts for recreation and treatment, developed industry, rich cultural heritage.

The major cities of Lower Silesia are Walbrzych, Legnica and Jelenia Góra.

Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship

This voivodship is one of the smallest regions of the country, its area is only 3% of the territory of Poland. The center is the city of Kielce.

There is almost no industry in the region, but agriculture is developed. In the southern part of the voivodeship there are popular balneological resorts.

Administrative center of the Polish Voivodeship

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Alternative questions in crossword puzzles for the word opole

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Word definitions for field in dictionaries

Wikipedia The meaning of the word in the Wikipedia dictionary
Opole is a city in Poland on the Oder River, the capital of the Opole Voivodeship. Cultural center of the region.

Great Soviet Encyclopedia The meaning of the word in the dictionary Great Soviet Encyclopedia
(Opole), a city in the southwest. Poland. The administrative center of the Opole Voivodeship. 90 thousand inhabitants (1972). A junction of railways, roads, a port on the river. Audra. Main industries: machine-building (railroad repair depot, production of electric motors, ...

Encyclopedic Dictionary, 1998 The meaning of the word in the dictionary Encyclopedic Dictionary, 1998
OPOLE (Opole) is a city in the south-west of Poland, a port on the river. Odra, the administrative center of the Opole Voivodeship. 129 thousand inhabitants (1991). Mechanical engineering, cement, food industry.

Examples of the use of the word pole in the literature.

People were crying in Opole, they were afraid of cold and hunger: autumn was quickly approaching, the foliage on the birches turned yellow, the lingonberries turned red in the forest.

And it was known that it was famous Opole with their auctions not only in Silesia, but also in Russia, in the Czech land, and even in Italy, there was a rumor about them.

Neither then, nor later, did they happen to know the name of that vile thief who stole from Opole folk piggy bank.

And when the market began in Opole, Kiyonka took there large koshes made from pine roots - it was very convenient to carry turnips and cabbage in them from the garden to the basement.

It was neither in Sagittarius, nor even in the Opole more fashionista than Kasia.