District is a term used in
Poland, to denote regions and jurisdictions of various types, including electoral
constituencies. As historical
administrative subdivisions
Administrative division, administrative unit,Article 3(1). country subdivision, administrative region, subnational entity, constituent state, as well as many similar terms, are generic names for geographical areas into which a particular, ind ...
of
Poland, districts existed in the later part of the
Congress Poland
Congress Poland, Congress Kingdom of Poland, or Russian Poland, formally known as the Kingdom of Poland, was a polity created in 1815 by the Congress of Vienna as a semi-autonomous Polish state, a successor to Napoleon's Duchy of Warsaw. It w ...
period, from 1842, when the name was applied to the former
countiess.
Districts were also created temporarily from 1945 to 1946, in the areas annexed to Poland from Germany as a result of the Soviet military advance. A district was then subdivided into
obwód Obwód (plural ''obwody'') is a term used in Polish to denote administrative districts in various countries, particularly as a translation of the Russian ''oblast''. As administrative subdivisions of Poland itself, obwody existed as subdivisions of ...
y. These okręgi were later replaced by
voivodeships, and the obwódy by counties.
Article in Polish re 1945-46
baza.archiwa.gov.pl
See also
* Okrug
Notes
References
Subdivisions of Poland
Types of administrative division
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