 tarnopol voivodeship (; , ternopilske voievodstvo) was an administrative region of interwar poland (1918â1939) with an area of 16,500&nbsp;kmÂ² divided into 17 districts (powiaty), and its capital located in tarnopol. at the end of world war ii, at the insistence of joseph stalin during the tehran conference of 1943, poland's borders were redrawn. the polish population was forcibly resettled and the tarnopol voivodeship was incorporated into the ukrainian soviet socialist republic. since 1991, most of the region is located in the ternopil oblast in sovereign ukraine. ==september 1939 and its aftermath== on september 17, 1939, following german aggression on poland (see also: polish september campaign) and in accordance with the secret protocol of molotovâribbentrop pact, soviet forces, allied with nazi germany, invaded eastern poland. as the bulk of the polish army was concentrated in the west fighting germans, the soviets met with little resistance and their troops quickly moved westwards. tarnopol was occupied as early as september 18, without any real opposition from the poles, and remained in soviet hands till operation barbarossa. in the years 1942â1944 tarnopol voivodeship was one of the sites of volhynian genocide spilling from neighboring woÅyÅ province, with summary massacres of poles in literally hundreds of tarnopol villages: i.e. berezowica maÅa (130), Åozowa (120), ihrowica (90), pÅotycza (43), etc. the slaughter of civilians, women and children alike, was conducted mostly by oun-upa bands of ukrainian nationalists and lasted well into 1945, beyond the sovie
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