The Warsaw County was a

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of the

Masovian Voivodeship Masovian Voivodeship or Mazowieckie Province (, ) and any variation thereof, is a Voivodeships of Poland, voivodeship (province) in east-central Poland, containing Poland's capital Warsaw. Masovian Voivodeship has an area of and had a 2019 po ...

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, consisting of the city of

Warsaw Warsaw, officially the Capital City of Warsaw, is the capital and List of cities and towns in Poland, largest city of Poland. The metropolis stands on the Vistula, River Vistula in east-central Poland. Its population is officially estimated at ...

, that existed from 1 January 1999 to 27 October 2002. It had an area of 536.5 km², making it the largest county in Poland.

History

The county was established on 1 January 1999, in the administrative division reform, that disestablished former

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, including the Warsaw Voivodeship, that existed in the area. The county was located in the

, and consisted of the city of

. Both county and city administrations co-existed as separate entities.
Ustawa z dnia 24 lipca 1998 r. o wprowadzeniu zasadniczego trójstopniowego podziału terytorialnego państwa.
' (Dz.U. 1998 nr 96 poz. 603) On 1 January 2002, the county incorporated the towns of

Sulejówek Sulejówek is a town in Poland, about east of Warsaw city centre and part of its metropolitan area. It is located in Masovian Voivodeship, in Mińsk County. Its population numbers 19323 (2011). The town is well known in Poland as the place wher ...

, and

Wesoła Wesoła () is one of the districts of Warsaw, and has been as such since October 27, 2002. Wesoła is located in the south-eastern part of city. Wesoła received town privileges on December 17, 1968. Then, the town included Wola Grzybowska, ...

, from neighboring

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. In 2002, it was decided to change the governing system of Warsaw, including the disestablishment of the county. As such, inhabitants of Sulejówek and Wesoła, were asked to vote on whether they wanted their towns to become part of Warsaw, or re-join the Mińsk County. As such, Wesoła become the

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of Warsaw, while Sulejówek re-joined the Mińsk County.
Ustawa z dnia 19 lipca 2002 r. o zmianie ustawy o ustroju miasta stołecznego Warszawy
' (Dz.U. 2002 nr 127 poz. 1087) The county was disestablished on 27 October 2002, with Warsaw becoming city county.

Subdivisions

The county was divided into 11 urban

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s (

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). Those were: * Warsaw-Bemowo; * Warsaw-Białołęka; * Warsaw-Bielany; * Warsaw-Centre; * Warsaw-Rembertów; * Warsaw-Targówek; * Warsaw-Ursus; * Warsaw-Ursynów; * Warsaw-Wawer; * Warsaw-Wilanów; * Warsaw-Włochy. From to 1 January 2002, to 27 October 2002, it also included two independent towns, which were

, and

. Additionally, Warsaw-Centre municipality was divided into 7

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.A. Gawryszewski:
Ludność Warszawy w XX wieku
', Warsaw: Instytut Geografii i Przestrzennego Zagospodarowania PAN im. Stanisława Leszczyckiego, 2009, ISBN 978-83-61590-96-5, Monografie Instytutu Geografii i Przestrzennego Zagospodarowania PAN 10.

Leaders

The leader of the county had the title of an

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. The only person in that office was Edmund Ambroziak, who served from 1999 to 2002.

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References

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