Wroclaw Voivodeship

The Wroclaw Voivodeship ( Polish. Województwo wrocławskie ) was a Polish administrative unit, which was initially created around the eponymous Wroclaw from 1945 and formed one of 17 voivodships . It was reduced significantly in 1975 by the establishment of the Wałbrzych and Jelenia Góra Voivodeships and only had an area of ​​6287 km². It finally went up in 1998 with around 1.1 million inhabitants in the course of a regional reform in what is now the Lower Silesian Voivodeship . The capital was Breslau.

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  Wroclaw Voivodeship 1946–1950

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  Wroclaw Voivodeship 1950–1975

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  Wroclaw Voivodeship from 1975

Important cities were (population from 1998):

• Wroclaw - 637,877
• Oleśnica - 38,913
• Oława - 31,911
• Jelcz-Laskowice - 15,601
• Strzelin - 13,264
• Milicz - 12,593
• Wołów - 12,344
• Trzebnica - 12,259

source

• Dz.U. 1975 no 17 poz. 92 (Polish) law on the allocation of cities and municipalities to the voivodships of May 30, 1975 (PDF file; 783 kB)