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{{Infobox Voivodeship|name = Podlachian Voivodeship|flag = POL województwo podlaskie flag.svg|coat-of-arms = POL województwo podlaskie COA.svg|location = Podlaskie2.png|counties = Podlaskie1.png|capital =
Białystok (province) in northeastern [Poland.
It was created
January 1, 1999, out of the former Białystok Voivodeship and
Łomża Voivodeships and half of the former
Suwałki Voivodeship, pursuant to the 1998 Local Government Reorganization Act. The province's name recalls the region's traditional name,
Podlachia (Podlasie), and the
Podlachian Voivodeship (1513-1795) under the
Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (1569-1795).
History
Podlachian Voivodeship (1513 – 1795)
image:PodlaskieRP.JPG in the
Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (1635)The Podlachian Voivodeship was formed in 1513 as a voivodeship in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.With Lithuania's confederation with the Kingdom of Poland (1385–1569) in 1569, the voivodeship was transferred to the Crown of the Polish Kingdom.
Podlachian Voivodeship 1816 – 1837
Podlachian Voivodeship was one of
Administrative division of Congress Poland. Created from the Siedlce Department, in 1837 it was transformed into
Podlachian Governorate.
Economy
According to the Polish National Official Business Register, REGON, 95,000 companies were registered in the Podlachia region in 2002.
Agriculture
Arable land constitutes around 60% of the total area of the region – most of which is ploughland (around 40%), forests, meadows and pastures. Over 120 thousand farms are registered, roughly half of which are small farms between 1–5
hectare and medium-sized farms of 5–10 ha. The smaller farms prefer intensive production (gardening, orcharding), whereas the larger ones engage in cattle and crop production. The cattle-raising farms are mainly oriented at milk production.
The natural conditions of the region are conducive to the development of ecologic production, which at present is realised by around 100 farms. Over 600 farms in the region run agrotourist businesses.
Geography
Natural assets
Podlachia has the lowest population density of the sixteen Polish voivodeships, and its largely unspoilt nature is one of its chief assets. Around 30% of the area of the voivodeship is under legal protection. The Polish part of the Białowieża Forest Biosphere Reserve is in Podlachia. There are four national parks (
Wigry,
Biebrza, Bialowieża, and Narew), 3 landscape parks (
Suwałki, Łomża –
Narew Valley, and Knyszyn Forest), 88 nature reserves, and 15 protected landscape areas. The voivodeship constitutes a part of the ecologically clean area of "the Green Lungs of Poland".
Cities and towns
The voivodeship has 35 cities and towns, among them 3 cities which are city counties. The list below orders them by population and also gives the area (GUS data from December 31, 2005):
- Białystok – 291.823 (102 km²)
- Suwałki – 69.268 (65,50 km²)
- Łomża – 63.819 (32,71 km²)
- Augustów – 29.971 (80,93 km²)
- Bielsk Podlaski – 26.893 (26,88 km²)
- Zambrów – 22.782 (19,02 km²)
- Grajewo – 22.718 (18,93 km²)
- Hajnówka – 22.159 (21,29 km²)
- Sokółka – 18.945 (18,61 km²)
- Łapy – 16.611 (11,90 km²)
- Siemiatycze – 15.178 (36,25 km²)
- Kolno – 10.772 (25,08 km²)
- Mońki – 10.461 (7,66 km²)
- Czarna Białostocka – 9.611 (14,28 km²)
- Wysokie Mazowieckie – 9.279 (15,24 km²)
- Wasilków – 8.872 (28,15 km²)
- Dąbrowa Białostocka – 6.165 (22,64 km²)
- Sejny – 5.971 (4,49 km²)
- Choroszcz – 5.424 (16,79 km²)
- Ciechanowiec – 4.923 (26,01 km²)
- Supraśl – 4.554 (5,68 km²)
- Brańsk – 3.800 (32,43 km²)
- Szczuczyn – 3.576 (13,23 km²)
- Knyszyn – 2.851 (23,68 km²)
- Lipsk – 2.500 (4,97 km²)
- Stawiski – 2.455 (13,28 km²)
- Zabłudów – 2.396 (14,30 km²)
- Suchowola – 2.255 (25,95 km²)
- Drohiczyn – 2.092 (15,68 km²)
- Nowogród – 2.014 (20,55 km²)
- Jedwabne – 1.908 (11,47 km²)
- Tykocin – 1.906 (28,96 km²)
- Goniądz – 1.903 (4,28 km²)
- Rajgród – 1.677 (35,18 km²)
- Kleszczele – 1.438 (46,71 km²)
- Suraż – 980 (33,86 km²)
Administrative divisions
{| class="wikitable" style="float: right;"|+ Other information about Podlachia|
CityPowiatsGminaSolectwoVillages| 12 006 km²|----| Road density| 52,4 km/100 km²|----| align="center" style="background:#CDAA7D" colspan="2" style="border-bottom:3px solid gray;" |
Economy|----| [Unemployment| 1106 [Zloty per capita|----| align="center" style="background:#CDAA7D" colspan="2" style="border-bottom:3px solid gray;" |
Production:|----| food and drinks| 46,2%|----| wood, wood products and furniture| 14,6%|----| electric energy, gas and water| 10,7%|----| machines and appliances| 4,8%|----| textiles| 4,4%|----| align="center" style="background:#CDAA7D" colspan="2" style="border-bottom:3px solid gray;" |
Economic units in private sector|----| trade and commerce| 33,2%|----| services| 11,8%|----| construction| 10,5%|----| industrial processing| 9,7%|----| transport| 8,3%|----| agriculture, hunting and forestry| 4,5%|----| align="center" style="background:#CDAA7D" colspan="2" style="border-bottom:3px solid gray;" |
Administrative divisions|----|
Gmina - Urban - Urban-Rural - Rural| 13 23 82|----| align="center" style="background:#CDAA7D" colspan="2" style="border-bottom:3px solid gray;" | Official webpage|}
The Podlachian Voivodeship is divided into 17 counties (powiat), three of them urban, and comprised of 118 gminas (13 urban, 23 urban-rural and 82 rural).
Podlachian Voivodeship counties
{||
BiałystokŁomżaSuwałkiAugustów County, AugustówBiałystok County, BiałystokBielsk County, Bielsk PodlaskiGrajewo County, GrajewoHajnówka County, HajnówkaKolno County, KolnoŁomża County, ŁomżaMońki County, MońkiSejny County, SejnySiemiatycze County, SiemiatyczeSokółka County, SokółkaSuwałki County, SuwałkiWysokie Mazowieckie County, Wysokie MazowieckieZambrów County, Zambrów|}
Most common Polish surnames in the region
Dabrowski : 7,177
Kozlowski : 5,560
Zalewski : 5,165
External links
- Radzilow Web Page
- Szczuczyn Web Page
- Wizna Web Page
- VisitBiałystok.com
- Podlaski Urząd Wojewódzki Official website
{{Infobox Voivodeship|name = Podlachian Voivodeship|flag = POL województwo podlaskie flag.svg|coat-of-arms = POL województwo podlaskie COA.svg|location = Podlaskie2.png|counties = Podlaskie1.png|capital =
Białystok (province) in northeastern [Poland.
It was created
January 1, 1999, out of the former Białystok Voivodeship and
Łomża Voivodeships and half of the former
Suwałki Voivodeship, pursuant to the 1998 Local Government Reorganization Act. The province's name recalls the region's traditional name, Podlachia (Podlasie), and the Podlachian Voivodeship (1513-1795) under the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (1569-1795).
History
Podlachian Voivodeship (1513 – 1795)
image:PodlaskieRP.JPG in the
Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (1635)The Podlachian Voivodeship was formed in 1513 as a voivodeship in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.With Lithuania's confederation with the
Kingdom of Poland (1385–1569) in 1569, the voivodeship was transferred to the Crown of the Polish Kingdom.
Podlachian Voivodeship 1816 – 1837
Podlachian Voivodeship was one of
Administrative division of Congress Poland. Created from the
Siedlce Department, in 1837 it was transformed into
Podlachian Governorate.
Economy
According to the Polish National Official Business Register,
REGON, 95,000 companies were registered in the Podlachia region in 2002.
Agriculture
Arable land constitutes around 60% of the total area of the region – most of which is ploughland (around 40%), forests, meadows and pastures. Over 120 thousand farms are registered, roughly half of which are small farms between 1–5 hectare and medium-sized farms of 5–10 ha. The smaller farms prefer intensive production (gardening, orcharding), whereas the larger ones engage in cattle and crop production. The cattle-raising farms are mainly oriented at milk production.
The natural conditions of the region are conducive to the development of ecologic production, which at present is realised by around 100 farms. Over 600 farms in the region run agrotourist businesses.
Geography
Natural assets
Podlachia has the lowest population density of the sixteen Polish voivodeships, and its largely unspoilt nature is one of its chief assets. Around 30% of the area of the voivodeship is under legal protection. The Polish part of the
Białowieża Forest Biosphere Reserve is in Podlachia. There are four national parks (Wigry,
Biebrza,
Bialowieża, and Narew), 3 landscape parks (
Suwałki,
Łomża –
Narew Valley, and
Knyszyn Forest), 88 nature reserves, and 15 protected landscape areas. The voivodeship constitutes a part of the ecologically clean area of "the Green Lungs of Poland".
Cities and towns
The voivodeship has 35 cities and towns, among them 3 cities which are city counties. The list below orders them by population and also gives the area (GUS data from December 31, 2005):
- Białystok – 291.823 (102 km²)
- Suwałki – 69.268 (65,50 km²)
- Łomża – 63.819 (32,71 km²)
- Augustów – 29.971 (80,93 km²)
- Bielsk Podlaski – 26.893 (26,88 km²)
- Zambrów – 22.782 (19,02 km²)
- Grajewo – 22.718 (18,93 km²)
- Hajnówka – 22.159 (21,29 km²)
- Sokółka – 18.945 (18,61 km²)
- Łapy – 16.611 (11,90 km²)
- Siemiatycze – 15.178 (36,25 km²)
- Kolno – 10.772 (25,08 km²)
- Mońki – 10.461 (7,66 km²)
- Czarna Białostocka – 9.611 (14,28 km²)
- Wysokie Mazowieckie – 9.279 (15,24 km²)
- Wasilków – 8.872 (28,15 km²)
- Dąbrowa Białostocka – 6.165 (22,64 km²)
- Sejny – 5.971 (4,49 km²)
- Choroszcz – 5.424 (16,79 km²)
- Ciechanowiec – 4.923 (26,01 km²)
- Supraśl – 4.554 (5,68 km²)
- Brańsk – 3.800 (32,43 km²)
- Szczuczyn – 3.576 (13,23 km²)
- Knyszyn – 2.851 (23,68 km²)
- Lipsk – 2.500 (4,97 km²)
- Stawiski – 2.455 (13,28 km²)
- Zabłudów – 2.396 (14,30 km²)
- Suchowola – 2.255 (25,95 km²)
- Drohiczyn – 2.092 (15,68 km²)
- Nowogród – 2.014 (20,55 km²)
- Jedwabne – 1.908 (11,47 km²)
- Tykocin – 1.906 (28,96 km²)
- Goniądz – 1.903 (4,28 km²)
- Rajgród – 1.677 (35,18 km²)
- Kleszczele – 1.438 (46,71 km²)
- Suraż – 980 (33,86 km²)
Administrative divisions
{| class="wikitable" style="float: right;"|+ Other information about Podlachia|
CityPowiatsGminaSolectwo
Villages| 12 006 km²|----| Road density| 52,4 km/100 km²|----| align="center" style="background:#CDAA7D" colspan="2" style="border-bottom:3px solid gray;" | Economy|----| [Unemployment| 1106 [Zloty per capita|----| align="center" style="background:#CDAA7D" colspan="2" style="border-bottom:3px solid gray;" |
Production:|----| food and drinks| 46,2%|----| wood, wood products and furniture| 14,6%|----| electric energy, gas and water| 10,7%|----| machines and appliances| 4,8%|----| textiles| 4,4%|----| align="center" style="background:#CDAA7D" colspan="2" style="border-bottom:3px solid gray;" |
Economic units in private sector|----| trade and commerce| 33,2%|----| services| 11,8%|----| construction| 10,5%|----| industrial processing| 9,7%|----| transport| 8,3%|----| agriculture, hunting and forestry| 4,5%|----| align="center" style="background:#CDAA7D" colspan="2" style="border-bottom:3px solid gray;" |
Administrative divisions|----| Gmina - Urban - Urban-Rural - Rural| 13 23 82|----| align="center" style="background:#CDAA7D" colspan="2" style="border-bottom:3px solid gray;" | Official webpage|}
The Podlachian Voivodeship is divided into 17 counties (powiat), three of them urban, and comprised of 118 gminas (13 urban, 23 urban-rural and 82 rural).
Podlachian Voivodeship counties
{||
BiałystokŁomżaSuwałkiAugustów County, AugustówBiałystok County, BiałystokBielsk County, Bielsk PodlaskiGrajewo County, GrajewoHajnówka County, HajnówkaKolno County, KolnoŁomża County, ŁomżaMońki County, MońkiSejny County, SejnySiemiatycze County, SiemiatyczeSokółka County, SokółkaSuwałki County, SuwałkiWysokie Mazowieckie County, Wysokie MazowieckieZambrów County, Zambrów|}
Most common Polish surnames in the region
Dabrowski : 7,177
Kozlowski : 5,560
Zalewski : 5,165
External links
- Radzilow Web Page
- Szczuczyn Web Page
- Wizna Web Page
- VisitBiałystok.com
- Podlaski Urząd Wojewódzki Official website
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