Podlaskie

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Podlaskie with the center of Bielsk

Podlasie (also Podlasia, Polish Podlasie , Lithuanian Palenkė , Belarusian Падляшша Padljašša , Ukrainian Підлісся Pidlissja , Latin Podlachia ) is a historical landscape in eastern Poland between the Western Bug and the Memel . The most important cities in Podlasie today are Białystok , Biała Podlaska and Bielsk Podlaski .

The area is now largely organized in the Podlaskie Voivodeship . The southern part of historical Podlachia (including Biała Podlaska) belongs to the Lublin Voivodeship .

In the Kingdom of Poland-Lithuania there was also a Podlaskie Voivodeship until 1795 .

See also

Podlaskie Opera and Philharmonic

literature

Gerd Schwalbe: History of Podlachia in Russian times (XI.-XIV. Centuries) . Dissertation, University of Hamburg, 1969.