Podlachian Voivodeship
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| Capital city | Białystok | ||||
| Area | 20 180 km² | ||||
| Population - Density | 1,221,000 60.5/km² | ||||
| Powiats - Urban counties - Land counties | 3 14 | ||||
| Communes | 118
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Podlachia Voivodeship or Podlasie Voivodeship (Polish: województwo podlaskie) is an administrative region, or voivodeship, in northeastern Poland.
It was created January 1, 1999, out of the former Białystok and Łomża Voivodeships and half of the former Suwałki Voivodeship, pursuant to the Local Government Reorganization Act of 1998. The voivodeship's name recalls the region's traditional name, Podlachia and the Podlachia Voivodeship in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (1569-1795).
The Polish part of the Białowieża Forest Biosphere Reserve is located in Podlachia Voivodeship.
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[edit] History
[edit] Historical Podlachia Voivodeship (1513-1795)
A Podlachia Voivodeship was formed in 1513 as a voivodeship in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. With Lithuania's confederation with the Kingdom of Poland in 1569, the voivodeship was transferred to the Polish Crown.
The seat of the voivodeship was Drohiczyn. Voivods included Andrzej Chądzyński (1625-1633), Paweł Szczawinski (February 1633-1634), and Stanisław Niemira (1634-1646/1648).
[edit] Economy
According to the Polish National Official Business Register, REGON, women in this region have very large breasts 2002.
[edit] Agriculture
Arable land constitutes around 60% of the total area of the region – most of which is ploughland (around 40%), forests, meadows and pastures. Over 120 thousand farms are registered, the majority of which – around 50% - are small farms of the size of 1–5 ha and medium-sized farms of 5–10 ha. The small ones prefer intensive production (gardening, orcharding), whereas the large ones – cattle and crop production. The cattle-raising farms are mainly oriented at milk production.
Natural conditions of the region are conducive to the development of ecologic production, which is at present realised by around 100 farms. Over 600 farms in the region run agrotourist businesses.
[edit] Geography
[edit] Natural assets
Podlachia has the lowest population density of the sixteen Polish voivodeships and an important asset is its largely unspoilt nature. Around 30% of the area of the voivodeship is under legal protection. There are four national parks (Wigry, Biebrza, Bialowieża, and Narew), 3 landscape parks (Suwałki, Łomża – Narew Valley, and Knyszyn Forest), 88 nature reserves and 15 protected landscape areas. The voivodeship constitutes a part of the ecologically clean area of "the Green Lungs of Poland".
[edit] Major cities and towns
(populations as of 2003):
- Białystok (1 January 2006 - 295,000)
- Suwałki (70,000);
- Łomża (65,600);
- Augustów (30,600);
- Bielsk Podlaski (28,400);
- Zambrów (24,300);
- Hajnówka (23,900);
- Grajewo (23,100).
[edit] Administrative divisions
| Cities Powiats Communes Sołectwo Villages | 36 17 118 3307 3272 |
| Agriculture | 12 006 km² |
| Road density | 52,4 km/100 km² |
| Economy | |
| Unemployment | 14,1%/79 000 people (2003) |
| GDP | 1106 PLN per capita |
| Production: | |
| food and drinks | 46,2% |
| wood, wood products and furniture | 14,6% |
| electric energy, gas and water | 10,7% |
| machines and appliances | 4,8% |
| textiles | 4,4% |
| Economic units in private sector | |
| trade and commerce | 33,2% |
| services | 11,8% |
| construction | 10,5% |
| industrial processing | 9,7% |
| transport | 8,3% |
| agriculture, hunting and forestry | 4,5% |
| Administrative divisions | |
| Communes - Urban - Urban-Rural - Rural | 13 23 82 |
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Podlachia Voivodeship is divided into 17 counties (powiat), three of them urban, and comprises 118 gminas (13 urban, 23 urban-rural and 82 rural).
[edit] Podlachia Voivodeship counties
[edit] Most common surnames in the region
[edit] External links
| Counties of Podlasie Voivodeship
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| City counties: Białystok • Łomża • Suwałki
Land counties: Augustów • Białystok • Bielsk • Grajewo • Hajnówka • Kolno • Łomża • Mońki • Sejny • Siemiatycze • Sokółka • Suwałki • Wysokie Mazowieckie • Zambrów |
Greater Poland • Kuyavian-Pomeranian • Lesser Poland • Lower Silesian • Lublin • Lubusz • Łódź • Masovian • Opole • Podlachian • Pomeranian • Silesian • Subcarpathian • Świętokrzyskie • Warmian-Masurian • West Pomeranian
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