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.
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)