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The Warsaw voivodship was located in central Poland between the wars, and bordered the Bialystok, Pomorze, Lódz, Kielce, and Lublin voivodships. The area had been part of the Russian empire since 1815. The Jewish community dated back to the 15th century and the city became a center for Jewish scholarship, Zionism, Yiddish language culture, and Hebrew language publishing. By the 19th century, Warsaw was the site of Europe's largest Jewish community. After WWI, the successful Polish defense of the city during the Russo-Polish war ended that conflict. Warsaw became the national capital and was also the site of Marshal Pilsudski's coup in 1926. The German armed forces occupied Warsaw beginning in 1939 and the majority of the Jewish population perished in the Holocaust through ghettoization and deportations to concentration camps. An uprising took place in the Warsaw ghetto in February 1943 and approximately 40, 000 Jews died in the wake of the German retaliation. Polish national forces and the German armed forces battled for the city from August to October 1944, ending with the German capture of the city and its subsequent destruction and expulsion of the citizens. After the war, the area was incorporated into the new Mazowieckie voivodship.
Capital city: Warsaw
1900-1917: Russia
1918-1939: Poland
1939-1944: Occupied by Germany (Generalgouvernement)
1944: Liberated by Soviet Army
1945- : Poland (en-US)
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Rzeczpospolita Polska: Podzial Administracyjny z Dnia 1 Kwietnia 1939 Roku. (M1.02)1:2,000,000. Wykonano w Referacie kartograficznym Gl. Urz. St.