The Voivodeship
The Sandomierz Voivodeship, which was to be created in late 1939, was to cover 20 or 21 counties of the four existing voivodeships. Its total area was to be 24,500 square kilometers. Other project stipulated that the new Voivodeship would cover whole area of the Central Industrial Region, thus its size would be 59.951 square kilometers, with 46 counties. Eugeniusz Kwiatkowski offered the post of the voivode to mayor of Warsaw, Stefan Starzyński.
Most probably, the voivodeship would be reduced to the 20 or 21 counties of the four already existing voivodeships. Out of the Kielce Voivodeship, the following eight counties would be transferred:
- Sandomierz county,
- Opatów county,
- Stopnica county,
- Radom county,
- Kielce county,
- Kozienice county,
- Wierzbnik county,
- Pińczów county.
Lublin Voivodeship would transfer two counties:
- Janów Lubelski county,
- Biłgoraj county,
Kraków Voivodeship would transfer four counties:
- Mielec county,
- Dębica county,
- Dąbrowa Tarnowska county,
- Tarnów county,
Lwów Voivodeship would transfer six or seven counties:
- Tarnobrzeg county,
- Nisko county,
- Kolbuszowa county,
- Rzeszów county,
- Łańcut county,
- Przeworsk county,
- Strzyżów county.
On September 1, 1939, Nazi Germany attacked Poland. On September 17, the Soviet Union, allied with the Nazis, also invaded. The Second Polish Republic ceased to exist and consequently, the Sandomierz Voivodeship was never created.
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